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[…] somehow. The was a half reasonable excuse. They were saying this is so realistic, that the effect could be like the notorious War of the Worlds, the radio show that Orson Welles produced and people were committing suicide because they were actually Martians coming down there Main Street. Obviously […]
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[…]t as a kid. Another person I got to know quite well was Jack Warner. I used to listen to him. I think a call Monday night he was talking about that a radio, this is talking about radio go before television. And he used to have a Saturday night to do a variety show. A Jack was always part of it, some[…]
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[…]gh reorganising and changes and I could see that it wasn’t really going to happen. By coincidence, chatting with a neighbour who worked at the BBC in radio, he mentioned to me that they were running a recruitment drive for trainee engineers and, if I was interested, he’d get me some paperwork and fo[…]
[…] stuff like that and it was all in black-and-white as it happened. So I had a good baptism of fire, you know. We got a car from BMC and they wanted a radio in it, and if they wanted a radio in it, I had to make one. I did have several outside sometimes. But of course, then we were over at Beaconsfie[…]
[…]it over, and we picked 90 in the stage. That had to be a good guess, you see. And a funny thing is, I heard two days after we had settled on that the Radio Corporation, no, not Radio Corporation, the Acoustic Society of America and thetechnicians or someone of America. I forget who it was. Stan[…]