[…] had an interest in the weather and weather forecasting so I got a job as an assistant scientific officer with the Met Office and was posted to their headquarters in Bracknell, as it was then, and I found myself in the department that dealt with wind and sunshine record keeping, and archiving and st[…]
[…]at learning curve as well. It was just a great experience. Mondays were always terrifying but by Friday you could do the whole thing standing on your head. You know, you start on a Monday morning or Tuesday morning with a blank sheet and produce a programme at six o' clock. And it was live, you know[…]
[…]promoted itself on film right from the very beginning. The Palestinian Arabs only ever really appeared as strange figures wearing tea-towels on their heads, backward, primitive and obstructive, violent, chaotic, incapable of their own government: that was the image that came out of the film records,[…]
[…]y voice broke, I was in the choir. And I can now sing Jesu Joy Of Man's Desiring to you this moment, and a number of other hymns that are still in my head, you know, I was brought up in the Anglican faith so forget being Muslim, which is odd now, because of the days that Islamophobia is rampant. It'[…]
[…]rly the sort of firming had been in our youth. What wasJohn P Hamilton 5:38 it from that job, then? You did? We both have an area. I was ahead of you because I'm older you are, but you did national service.Gerald Chambers 5:49 Yes, I was in the, in the Air Force from 1945 to […]
[…], but in the twenties they were dotted with tables, with gilt chairs, white teacloths, waitresses in black dresses with white frilly aprons and white headbands. There would be a band because part of the floor would be cleared and people used to tango, foxtrot and all that stuff.The story goes that I[…]
Norman Swallow 0:04 The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. Richard Levin, head of television design for the BBC interview on normal swallow, recorded on the third of September 1991. side one okay. First of all, when and where were you born?Richard Levin &n[…]
[…]y with it. We went up on a four week course to learn how to be teachers and I got acting sergeant because I was now an instructor and I was posted to Headquarters of Fighter Command which was at Stanmore.And the unit there that sort of provided the staff for the Headquarters was like a little Air Fo[…]
[…]ers. That wasn't a good idea because I actually failed my course at university and, funny enough, failed graduates were what were perceived to be the head of Sound Department at STV's idea of the right kind of person to put in the team because graduates, at a functional level, graduates always wante[…]
[…]ation” etc that were bringing together you know art and philosophy in some ways. So those are the things that really inspired my interest. However my headmaster at school got it into his head that I was going to be a civil engineer so he had me down to do Maths, Physics and Geography for A level but[…]
