My thanks to Alan Bermingham, Bill Curtis, Tony Grant, Andy Hall, Alan Jessop, Robert Kruger and Trevor Wimlett for reading the manuscript of the first edition of this manual and making many helpful and constructive suggestions. Any errors or omissions in the book are mine.
My thanks also to Chris O’Neill, Nick Bonney and Rick Fryer of Vinten Broadcast, Dick Adams, BBC Wales, Claire Owen, BBC TV, Mike Buttolph, Corporate Safety, BBC TV Centre and Margaret Denley, Focal Press. Finally, thanks to my wife Sue and my children, Sally and Edmund, for their help and encouragement in the production of this book.
Photographic Credits
Every effort has been made to find the copyright owners of the photographs used and photographs are reprinted by courtesy BBC TV, BBC Wales, Granada Television, Vinten Broadcast, Bob Ewens, Alan Jessop, Andrew Parr, Trevor Wimlett and ‘Zerb’, the Guild of Television Cameramen.