Re: Mel Oxley

Posted by richard curzon on
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/Mel-Oxley-tp1510351p1510352.html

The purges were over by 1978. By the that time Sue
Malden had been hired to run the archives, and track
down and restore BBC product.

Rick

--- Griff Wason <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi All :)
>
> I just got an email from my friend at the BBC.
> Apparently, there are
> NO pictures of Mel in the current library. She and a
> number of people
> she has talked to about this are disgusted, as he is
> well remembered
> and was extremely popular by the BBC old school.
> But, apparently in
> the early eighties, there was a huge purge of
> stills, audio tape,
> records and films - practically a whole
> warehouse-full was either
> destroyed or just thrown away.