2005
Ken Mutch
Ken Mutch was born in Aberdeenshire and spent the first four years of his life in Oldmeldrum. His family then moved to Inverurie and he lived there until he left school. During his time in Inverurie he learned to play the fiddle, but gave it up when he left school in 1969 and joined the BBC in London as a technical operator. But it was TV shows he worked on then – radio came later. The very first show he worked on was Blue Peter. Other shows included Steptoe and Son, Up Pompeiiand The Sky at Night. He worked for the BBC in Edinburgh for a while before moving to Beechgrove, Aberdeen. Ken produced around 800 Take the Floor programmes – of which around 250 were outside broadcasts. Due to his previous experience as a technical operator, he edited all the programmes as well as produced them, the editing process being simplified latterly by computer technology whereas in earlier days it would be done on the quarter inch tape the sessions were recorded on at the time.
Ken Mutch
Ken Mutch was born in Aberdeenshire and spent the first four years of his life in Oldmeldrum. His family then moved to Inverurie and he lived there until he left school. During his time in Inverurie he learned to play the fiddle, but gave it up when he left school in 1969 and joined the BBC in London as a technical operator. But it was TV shows he worked on then – radio came later. The very first show he worked on was Blue Peter. Other shows included Steptoe and Son, Up Pompeiiand The Sky at Night. He worked for the BBC in Edinburgh for a while before moving to Beechgrove, Aberdeen. Ken produced around 800 Take the Floor programmes – of which around 250 were outside broadcasts. Due to his previous experience as a technical operator, he edited all the programmes as well as produced them, the editing process being simplified latterly by computer technology whereas in earlier days it would be done on the quarter inch tape the sessions were recorded on at the time.