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	Trouble at the Mill
		Pebble Mill At One ran from 1973 to 1986 and was hosted for a long time by the late Donny Macleod, Marion Foster and Bob Langley.
		The TV career of broadcaster and gardener Alan Titchmarsh was launched at the Mill, and many a new presenter cut his or her teeth on the perils of live television at Pebble Mill.
		Pebble Mill at One was, unusually, not broadcast from a TV studio, but from the foyer (or at least, what was supposed to be the foyer) of the building.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/broadcasting/106221 (484 words)

	BBC - Birmingham Webcams - Have a look at the view from Pebble Mill
		The Pebble Mill studios have staged several BBC shows, most famously the Pebble Mill at One lunchtime chat show, which ran from 1973 to 1986.
		Pebble Mill at One was hosted for a long time by Donny Macleod and Bob Langley.
		Pebble Mill has also produced the popular TV dramas Dalziel and Pascoe and Dangerfield, as well as the long-running radio soap The Archers and the soap opera Doctors starring Christopher Timothy.
	www.bbc.co.uk /birmingham/webcams/pebblemill/pebblemill.shtml (261 words)

	BBC News \| UK \| BBC closes Pebble Mill studios
		The studios staged several BBC shows, most famously the Pebble Mill at One lunchtime chat show, which ran from 1973 to 1986.
		She said as most of Pebble Mill's production was location based, the use of the studios had halved in three years to around one third of their capacity.
		Pebble Mill has also produced the popular TV dramas Dalziel and Pascoe and Dangerfield, as well as the long-running radio soap The Archers and the recent daytime soap opera Doctors starring Christopher Timothy.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/891654.stm (494 words)

	Pebble Mill Studios - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The land for the site was acquired by BBC Birmingham in the 1950s but the plans for the site weren't approved until 1967, the same year that construction of the studios began.
		The BBC vacated the premises and moved to new studios at The Mailbox, completing the transfer on 22 October 2004.
		The studios were demolished between May and September 2005, and the site is to be redeveloped as a science park.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pebble_Mill_Studios (239 words)

	OFF THE TELLY: Reviews/Gold/Pebble Mill at One
		But watching again the Mill's valediction 15 years on, it's hard to avoid the conclusion that the whole series was a bit of an enigma.
		Marian tells us we're about to see some of the projects Pebble Mill supported through the years, but bizarrely this just consists of a bunch of kids running round and round the studio wearing Sport Aid t-shirts, and we rather thought that was Bob Geldof's idea.
		Coia insanely accosts a three-year-old and asking if she knew it was the last Pebble Mill, before the publicity conscious editor of the Birmingham Evening Mail pops up to hand over a funeral wreath.
	www.offthetelly.co.uk /reviews/gold/pebblemillatone.htm (833 words)

	mb21 - The Wirelist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Back in January 1998 Paul Hedges visited the Pebble Mill Studio where the story of everyday countryfolk is brought to life, and for Sound Pro magazine he talked to the technical and production staff who are involved in the creation of the UK's longest-running radio serial...
		Studio 3 in the heart of the BBC's Pebble Mill building in Birmingham is where the unfolding drama of the inhabitants of the fictional Midland village of Ambridge comes to life from the scriptwriters' pages.
		There are three tape machines in the studio, four CD players, two gram decks, an AKAI DD1000 with the remote control module, and a SADiE hard disk system with removable SCSls which we record onto.
	www.mb21.co.uk /wirelist/features/archers.html (3312 words)

	One Small Day
		Once at the studio's, Limahl is re-united with his two female backing singers Josephine Melville and Mandy Newton, a highly-excitable pair who scream and laugh their way through the rehearsals.
		As it's the last Pebble Mill in the series, champagne is handed around and everyone retires to the BBC hospitality room.
		Once in the Roundtable studio, the line-up of Green (Scritti Politti), DJ Gary Davies, Limahl and host Richard Skinner all gather around a large circular table, sipping drinks and smoking cigarettes.
	www.limahl.co.uk /articles/oneday/onesmallday.htm (1171 words)

	Komis studios, Keratokambos (Keratocambos) - review, photos & reservations
		The Komis building is across the narrow and little-trafficked road from the pebble and sand beach.
		The 15 studios vary in individual layout and style, all have interesting decor and the focus is on genuinely traditional furniture.
		Komis studios, with its more creatively designed and conceived accommodation, its atmosphere and lush garden surroundings, is one of the few nicer small hotels to stay on the south coast of Crete.
	www.crete-hotels-rooms.com /Reservations/Komis_studios.htm (357 words)

	Horror of Fang Rock
		This was purely due to a lack of London facilities on the required dates, but caused some concern at the time because of the complex nature of some of the video effects work required.
		In the event, Pebble Mill pulled out all the stops to accommodate the production, even installing new gallery equipment specially for the show - and director Paddy Russell was extremely pleased at how smoothly it all went.
		The quad videotape masters were transferred to D3 digital videotape as part of the BBC's 2" videotape archiving project in the mid-nineties, and it is these D3 copies that we used as a basis for the restoration work.
	www.purpleville.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /rtwebsite/horror_of_fang_rock.htm (629 words)

	Omega-News: Brain tumour cluster in video cameramen at BBC Pebble Mill
		THE BBC was at the centre of a cancer scare last night after six cameramen who worked at the Pebble Mill studios were found to have brain tumours.
		The six workers all worked at the now defunct Pebble Mill TV complex.
		HEALTH and safety officials are investigating a cluster of brain tumours among cameramen who worked at the Pebble Mill studios in Birmingham.
	omega.twoday.net /stories/2686932 (795 words)

	BBC NEWS \| England \| West Midlands \| Bulldozers tear down Pebble Mill
		Pebble Mill was home to the BBC in the West Midlands for 33 years
		Bulldozers have begun demolishing the main building at the former home of the BBC in the West Midlands, Pebble Mill.
		AWM hopes world-class research and development facilities for the medical and healthcare industries will be built in place of Pebble Mill.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/west_midlands/4185270.stm (233 words)

	BBC Birmingham - Your Birmingham - Science Park plan for Pebble Mill
		Plans for a technology park on the site of the BBC's Pebble Mill studios have been unveiled by Advantage West Midlands and the owner of the land, Calthorpe Estates.
		The Beeb will be leaving its home of thirty years towards the end of the year for a state-of-the-art new set up at Birmingham's Mailbox development.
		AWM's planning application includes a technology and science park, tennis courts, sports fields and a new road from the A38 Bristol Road to the rest of the development.
	www.bbc.co.uk /birmingham/your_birmingham/2003/02/science-park.shtml (270 words)

	Wes Wanders
		As responsibility for the show was moving to Pebble Mill studios in Birmingham, the hospital location was changed to the "mythical" Heath Green Hospital in Birmingham.
		Although a lot of filming was carried out on location, wards were meticulously recreated in the studio even down to the authentic alarm sound, and skyline panorama behind the windows.
		Aware of the Pebble Mill studio home of the programme, I was surprised to see a "London pub" making an appearance.
	www.planethelen.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /weswanders.htm (1819 words)

	TV & Radio Bits - The Eighties Zone
		Revived in the 90s as plain Pebble Mill with Alan Titchmarsh, Judi Spiers and regular contributions from the BBC Big Band.
		There were several Pebble Mill spin-offs, particularly in the 1970s, such as the late night chat show Saturday Night at the Mill.
		In 1981 a kind of early evening version called Six Fifty-five Special surfaced during the Mill's summer break, meaning any hopes Donny and Marian had for a summer break as well were dashed when they found themselves presenting it.
	www.tvradiobits.co.uk /eightieszone/eighties6.htm (1385 words)

	BBC (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The BBC World Service is also available on the mainstream digital broadcasting platforms in the UK, as well as the Internet and shortwave radio, both of which can be received in many places across the globe.
		While the "footprint" of the Astra 2D satellite was smaller than that of Astra 2A, from which it was previously broadcast encrypted, it meant that viewers with appropriate equipment were able to receive BBC channels "free-to-air" over much of Western Europe.
		Consequently, some rights issues have needed to be resolved with programme providers such as Hollywood studios and sporting organisations, who have expressed concern about the unencrypted signal leaking out.
	bbc.kiwiki.homeip.net.cob-web.org:8888 (3029 words)

	Mast Sanity : Brain tumour cluster in video cameramen at BBC Pebble Mill
		Brain tumour cluster in video cameramen at BBC Pebble Mill
		We need to determine how widespread this problem is. If any of you are aware of camera operators with the condition, could you send me all the information you have at the earliest opportunity.”
		Douglas, Bathgate / 12:46am 19 Sep 2006 If the powers that be won’t acknowledge the clusters of cancers around electricity pylons and sub stations I’m afraid the camera ops are on a hiding to nothing.
	mastsanity.twoday.net /stories/2802116 (796 words)

	brass band (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In January 2000 the band were specially invited to perform in the Dome as part of its ‘Millennium Celebrations’.
		In April this year we will be recording a piece of music for a new CD Rom computer interactive project, at the Pebble Mill Studios Birmingham, which I understand will be sold worldwide once released.
		Dudley Concert Brass Band is the third band in a progression of four in the borough of Dudley.
	www.edu.dudley.gov.uk /music/DMS/Brassband.htm (512 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This EP was the result of a live session for the BBC, recorded at Birmingham’s Pebble Mill Studios, in 1996.
		All of the songs were recorded in one take with the occasional overdub for lead guitars.
		The only exception is the version of the Coward’s Song, which was taken from an earlier recording session at Moles Studio in Bath.
	www.themachinebreakers.com /discog/cd_01.html (80 words)

	Press Gazette - UK Journalism News and Journalism Jobs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The BBC has set 23 June as the date for the first batch of 600 staff in Birmingham to move from Pebble Mill to the Mailbox, following delays that held back the transfer from November last year.
		Staff at BBC WM have been training in the £45m broadcasting facility in preparation for the first transmissions from the digital studios which are expected in early July, "but are dependent on the new technologies and systems fully bedding in," according to the BBC.
		Midlands Today is expected to go on air on 25 October, after a four-month training programme for the news team on new equipment.
	www.pressgazette.co.uk /article/100604/Date_set_for_Pebble_Mill_move (253 words)

	Waveguide TV and Radio News - Monday September 18 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Secret life of the Manic Depressive also features contributions from Richard Dreyfuss and Carrie Fisher and is broadcast on BBC Two tomorrow night.
		The BBC is at the centre of a cancer scare after six cameramen who worked at the Pebble Mill studios were found to have brain tumours.
		One radiation expert said last night: "There is a link between exposure to radiation and tumours but the levels emitted by a TV camera would, in normal circumstances, be too low.
	www.waveguide.co.uk /news060918.htm (1542 words)

	Department of Drama and Theatre Arts
		You will study a range of performance styles and dramatic forms and genres related to the season of plays staged in the Department's Studio Theatre through the year.
		The course is, as the name suggests, based in practice and you will experience a range of performance styles and working methods through attendance at and/or participation in a variety of masterclasses and workshops (both staff- and visiting lecturer-led).
		At the end of the First Year, you may be invited to participate in the performance of new plays written by students on the MA in Playwriting Studies course.
	www.drama.bham.ac.uk /ug.htm (1968 words)

	Stop Messin About - The Kenneth Williams Website (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Here Kenneth Williams tells Maire Messenger about his day with children at Pebble Mill studios in Birmingham.
		I started at about 8.30 am and went nonstop until about six in the evening.
		Kenneth Williams was talking about his day spent hosting The Six-O Radio Festival at Pebble Mill, during which 2,500 schoolchildren performed plays, sang, learned about radio production, danced and talked.
	www.stopmessinabout.co.uk /Article-RadTimes_82.htm (504 words)

	UFO NEWS UK Volume 1 No. 2
		CA: Well, when he first arrived, Pat and I were asked to go up to Pebble Mill television studios in Birmingham to take part in a programme called Daytime Live.
		When we arrived at the studios we were told that this man had been flown directly in to Birmingham and that we would not be able to meet him because they wanted it to be an absolutely first-time contact on air.
		CA: That he'd been out studying foxes in Scotland, and that one of the foxes on this particular night had refused to follow its regular path which, he explained, was not consistent with the usual behaviour of foxes.
	www.ufoinfo.com /ufonewsuk/v01/0102.shtml (3417 words)

	Kensington Hotel Directions
		Turn right following the signs into Pebble Mill road and turn right at the end onto the Pershore road A441.
		Travel up the Pershore road for approx half a mile, where we are located on the right hand side (four flags are flying on the hotel car park).
		You will pass Pebble Mill studios on your right, continue straight on for approx half a mile, where we are located on the right hand side (four flags are flying on the hotel car park).
	www.kensingtonhotel.co.uk /directions.htm (374 words)

	XSI Base - Softimage XSI Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Feb 2004 — Feb 2004, Charactershop, Pebble Mill, Birmingham.
		I made contact with the Character shop at Pebble Mill Studios and originally volunteered to go in for a couple of days a week to learn new techniques and turn my redundancy into a positive experience.
		However, I was fortunate enough to be employed on a freelance basis and whilst there I worked on the British Animation Awards 2004 opening film.
	www.xsibase.com /jobseeker.php?detail=475 (548 words)

	Radleian Society - Publications - The Old Radleian Online 2001 - Obituraries: Laurence Hudson
		After Radley he taught in a number of schools before moving to Cheltenham in 1951 where he worked, freelance, as an organist and orchestral conductor.
		He founded and developed the Laurence Hudson String Orchestra which played in Cheltenham and further afield and gave live broadcasts from the Pebble Mill studios in Birmingham.
		In 1966 the orchestra combined with another group to form the Cheltenham Chamber Orchestra, directed by Laurence Hudson until 1987.
	www.radley.org.uk /OR/OldRadleian/2001/hudson.html (117 words)

	Why Britain (and Anna Ford) is swearing by the Grundys Independent, The (London) - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		When Today programme presenter Anna Ford described Simon Pemberton, the ruthless landowner in the Archers radio soap, as a "shit" on air yesterday morning, there were at least four million listeners who must have agreed with her, even if her language came as something of a shock at 8.25 in the morning.
		Some listeners have even crossed the boundary between fiction and reality and the BBC revealed yesterday that the fictitious Mr Pemberton had received 20 pieces of hate mail, including a death threat, at the BBC's Pebble Mill studios.
		Listeners will find out by the end of this week who wins the six-month long battle for Grange Farm after the soap's Agricultural Lands Tribunal met for the first time on air last night to consider the Grundys' case.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19970402/ai_n14116739 (732 words)

	Enigma String Quartet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Although based in Birmingham, the quartet have enjoyed permforming as far afield as Jersey, Ireland and Scotland as well as in many venues around England.
		They have a wealth of recording experience, including sessions at Abbey Road and Pebble Mill studios, have appeared on BBC television and played at both Ronnie Scott's Jazz Clubs in London and Birmingham.
		As freelance musicians they enjoy a varied line of work including orchestral, chamber, ballet, choral and musicals.
	www.glittercritter.com /enigma/biog.html (93 words)

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