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[…]roblem because it was pouring with rain, and my wife and I had just enough money for me to go by bus - well on the North Circular to Muswell Hill, to Alexandra Palace, for this interview. I had enough money to go one way you see [laughs]. So I thought, "Right, well I'll take the bus there so that I […]

[…]d filmmaking? Kenneth Griffith  13:27  Yes, in. I was film acting before the war, and I actually televised before The War at Alexandra Palace.  Isn't it? Alexandra Palace?  I did a play for a great actress who is unknown, Nancy Price, who ran what she ple[…]

[…]me." I was a long way, a long, long way ahead. Because that year - this was 1936, at the end of that year, the high definition service was started at Alexandra Palace and people were already talking about it then. They weren't worried, it was a novelty. We had - Crystal Palace was still - hadn't bee[…]

[…]y for a Staff Officer to help wind up the Empire Air Training Scheme – this was virtually towards the end of the European War, and so I was posted to Alexandra House in Kingsway.  And I think this was the most dangerous part, my most dangerous part of my war because I arrived there just as the […]

[…]me 19, 1935 this was 1932. Come 1935 and 1935 there was an internal memo came round seeking volunteers to join the experimental television service at Alexandra Palace. And I read this memo. I was now 19 I read this memo, and I said, that's where I'm going. That's Tomorrow's World. And I talked aroun[…]

[…] learning at that time. It was only really just getting up steam after the war television. And most a lot of the transmissions were still coming from Alexandra Palace. Joyce Robinson  15:14   And all live Of course.  Lois Singer  15:15  Oh,[…]