[…]earned the piano there, which I hated because the poor old Nuns did their best, I used to run under the tables to dodge them, and my Father got a bit disconcerted, he said, ‘I don’t know whether I should put you to typing and shorthand, you don’t seem to be cottoning on to the music’, ‘well’, I said[…]
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[…] on a program. Called Not Half which is all about disc jockeys Alan Freeman Tony Blackburn all a jolly good […]
[…] knew I was coming! [AS laughs] And I became a disc jockey in Palestine and Egypt. Then when I came […]
[…] third. Mm. Imagine they were fifteen or something. Those huge discs that were made for, what was it called? The […]
[…]ols television programs came in and then we had a children's television program called the messengers which used touch and feature films to stimulate discussion about socialal issues and I helped out on that and then eventually that whole series of you writing the book if you listen to the clips we […]
[…]Muir and Denis Norden ever worked on together - wrote together - it was the last thing they did and Bob Monkhouse was the star - and he was playing a Disc Jockey - er - who was interviewing celebrities and stars so we get quite a few people who were well known and that time and - er - Frank Muir and[…]
[…]was that you could get a few papers for yourself to sell locally if it was possible. Well, the only place you could do that was in the West End and I discovered clubs, drinking bars. So, I’d go in, remember the war was on and shout out things like “Here’s the Star Paper: Germans in Berlin” and all t[…]
[…] sixteen. I was told that I was going to have to come out. I was shattered by this because I was, "I'm not going back to being a pageboy!" So after a discussion they found out that A.W. Robinson, who was the studio accountant would take me into the accounts department. So I went back to Lime Grove i[…]
[…]ething less than thirty… they went round slower than thirty-three and a third. Mm. Imagine they were fifteen or something. Those huge discs that were made for, what was it called? The Transcription Service, you know, the things that were sent abroad. But it was all very u[…]
