[…] school there. I'd already been to school for a year or so in Dagenham, and strangely enough, I we were myself and another boy were We were slightly ahead of the children in the school in Taunton. So in some of the lessons, I could just sit and read a book rather than than join in. But it was a happ[…]
[…]en I got a letter back from the BBC asking me to come up for an interview at Broadcasting House. And dear old Peter Parrish, I think was there as the head programme engineer, or was it Dr. Alexander, one of them was in charge. John Ammonds 9:06 Well, yes ... Joh[…]
[…]rithms, which I hated, because I, I can't add up. And I can only I can do things tremendously well, approximately. So I used to get the answers in my head, approximately, I got on tremendously well with the old man. And I never used any log tables, because we were, you know, in fundamental terms, I […]
[…] landed at Blackpool at Squire’s Gate and I was sitting in the mess there and the evening paper came in, “Air Martial’s Plane Missing” was the banner headline, and what had happened was and poor old Trout, Drummond and Trout and all of the crew of the Lancaster - they were stopping on the Azores in […]
[…]was in those days half a crown. And so consequently, you went up the road or you had a bar of chocolate or you took, went up the road of the road and head to the pub and had a half a pint of butter. And then if it worked or 12 o'clock, you had taxes home. Now taxes weren't load on. So I noticed thos[…]
[…]they opened it up we didn’t get any sleep from about 1935 onwards. But further up the road was this nice Deansfield Road school. I remember well, the Headmaster's name was Dixon. I remember him because his birthday was the same day as mine and we used to celebrate together. very kind to a little boy[…]
[…]pitched up at Rediffusion before it became Thames, started recruiting Panorama people for This Week, starting with his favourite producer Philip Whitehead. I meanwhile got a job in General Features, working on Cause for Concern with Ian Martin and Eddie Mirtzoff. 29.53 - […]
[…]cepted the call. They said come tomorrow morning 10.3-. And I did go at 10.30by then head of programmes, a great man, alas no longer with us called John Salt, his wife was a famous broad cas[…]
[…]y ten years after they had been engaged and he went to LorettoSchool as a Chaplain. The whole family went through Loretto School, one of my Uncles wasHeadmaster and the Loretto ethic was very deeply embedded in the family. My Father was mildlyclerical during his school period. After that not so much[…]
[…] lot of shepherding, Tom Quiggley, and his son was the head horse keeper. There were in those days eight men […]
