Janis Goldring

Peter says he once took a bite out of Les’ (in Stores) cheese sandwich who went apoplectic with rage!

Dave Box used to go to Stores and say “Good morning Store Man, can I have four of your finest rolls of camera tape and a box of your best blue chalk" just to wind him up!

Dick Blencowe

Les in stores has just rang up to say he needs the Apple and Biscuit back as it is the emergency spare. Will an AXBT do?

Alec Bray

Whenever I was sent to the Stores for Camera Tape, I would get a baleful stare and be given one roll – however many I had been asked to get. However, one day I went to Stores to get Camera Tape (amongst other things).  It was the morning of the 1966 General Election (31 March 1966): Studio 4 had an ICL mainframe running (the previous election had used an Elliot 803) and the there was a six foot high, four foot wide grey box which was a caption generator (as I recall).  Anyway, I was in Stores (working for a completely different programme), asked for Camera Tape and got given a complete BOX of rolls of tape!  Good stuff, camera tape!

Bill Jenkin, Pat Heigham

Was anyone actually ever sent to stores for a black level clamp?  Or a ‘peak white clipper’ !

Alasdair Lawrance

A memo came round about removing the pedestal from the output – there used to be a 2 percent ‘lift’ of black level on all video.

Again in Cardiff, we packed up a stage weight in a cardboard box with a label to send it to redundant stores, showed the memo to the store man and left……

Nobody ever knew what happened.

Geoff Hawkes

My worst experience on Sound came when I was sent to stores on the second floor of TC as it was then, for a swan-neck mic extension. I’d failed to ask which type of mic it was for and the storeman sent me back with a goose-neck instead.

At that time I didn’t know the difference but suffered a severe telling-off from an exasperated SA1 (no names mentioned) for incompetence because I’d got it wrong. Well, that’s one way to learn and fast…