Aida Young (nee Cohen)

[…]t to be married, so that everybody would lust after her, right?  But she was married, and she had two kids, and in fact last week I heard on the radio that the daughter is now in films.  She had a little boy and a little girl, and so the husband and the two kids were in one hotel and Rache[…]

Jill Craigie

[…]es. So you were not competing materialistically with anyone at all, and you didn't have to keep up appearances. So what happened? You listened to the radio, and you had discussions about Joad and Priestley, and these people who were arguing all for socialism. You listened to music, and you discussed[…]

Peggy Hyde-Chambers (nee Rignold)

[…] ‘Oh’ I said ‘perhaps it’s your heart’. And he said ‘No, I know indigestion when I’ve got it’, and he said would I go and get a book, it was the, the Radio Doctor’s book.Oh yes.And he loved the Radio, everything he used to go to the Radio Doctor’s book. So Iwent up to get this book and I couldn’t fi[…]

Christine Collins

[…]something like that, wecame down about seven o’clock, we came downstairs from where we were dubbing and we had, we didn’t have a television, we had a radio which used to be a radio and television, so we could get television sound but we hadn’t got television picture. Anyway, we turned the sound[…]

James Arthur Clark

[…] presumably the news as well.SPEAKER: M5No we never had the news we weren't allowed to read a newspaper. We weren't allowed. No. In no way. We had no radios in no way where we allowed to know what was happening in the world.SPEAKER: M1So you didn't see any of the traditional newsreels.SPEAKER: M11No[…]

Edward Aneurin Williams

[…]ision broadcasting companies, as opposed to the producers, they're more or less duty bound to send in returns of what music has been broadcast as the radio comes on, some of them are monitored. Some of them monitor or some of them are sampled by the prs, or by somebody so that they listen to an hour[…]
Scroll to Top