[…]ve performances was mainly what you did. Nowadays performers have got so many different things they have to think about, they have got to think about radio, they have got to think about television, they've got to think about video recording, they've got to think about performances, they've got to th[…]
[…] and we’re at the flat of John and Daphne Shadwell in Paddington and Roberto Champredanc [ph], this is your life![laughter]Daphne Shadwell, long time radio and television practitioner. Daphne, starting at the beginning – when, where?DS: Well, when I was born, I was born in Wandsworth […]
[…]t was after my demob in 46 that I got my first permanent job which was BBC Radio. Stephen Peet: While you were at school and Keeble College were you a greatmovi[…]
[…] television or entertain world? No, Elizabeth Bale 1:56 but my father always loved musicals, and as soon as he could get a radiogram, he would always have lps on of, you know, the musicals of the day. And he and my mother used to go to London once a year for the Motor Show[…]
[…]as a bit crap and that. So anyway, so then I just got more and more involved in the Union locally. And then Andy moved into television. I was in radio, don't forget. So then they set up a Radio subdivision committee and a Television subdivision [committee]. So in the radio one would be studio m[…]
[…]ery early Steptoes. No actually maybe I'm wrong about this maybe it was 2” Quad tape because one could see it was obviously 405 and in the Radio Times it said it had been restored by the BFI. So some, thought to be lost, so maybe it was on tape and someone found the tape. What?Rodney Gies[…]
[…]t from factory to factory, I was either sacked or I left. And by that time I suppose, by the time I was getting near 17, 16½, 17, I heard jazz on the radio, Louis Armstrong and things, and this was a revelation to me. And also my early culture was the cinema. It really was the cinema. I didn't go to[…]
[…]ational came up said look, we want you to take the job. And I hadn't as yet heard back from the BBC. And unbeknown to me my brother, who was in sound radio, had been since the war was from 1938. It was he had applied for the job. And of course on the notice board was just assistant sound recorders s[…]
