Royston mayoh biography channel

One of the biggest names in British television production and with a career spanning a staggering seven decades, writer and director turned actor and performer Royston Mayoh went from sweeping the studio floor at ABC Didsbury Manchester to become one of the most prominent TV producers of his generation.

Yet unbelievably as a young man, entertainment was never on Royston’s radar and instead he studied mathematics and didn’t expect to have a career in anything. Finding himself sweeping the floor of the studios in the north east might have been regarded as a lowly position but it inadvertently offered him a taste in what would become his world for the next sixty years.

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Securing a role as a camera operator at ABC Manchester in the late fifties, Roy had a taste of the new medium when televisi