Geoff Labram

[…]int. And was obviously an imminent candidate for being called up. But in fact, what I was, what happened to me was that I was directed to the mullard radio valve factory in Mitcham. In Surrey, and I spent some months there and then finally was called up and went into REME  Royal electrical and […]

Alf Cooper

[…]re?19No, they were using sight developing. It was whilst I was there we started up, we started up while I was working there making dip tests for, for Radio Luxembourg was it with the, with the early morning and taped news, and the, and the, and the sound tracks were developed then in the early hours[…]

Christopher Challis

[…]t it the right way and I did it only for fun. I did it too early. Now it's all going on. You've got cassettes on everything to do with sailing on VHF radio, navigation, I did it much too early. The company, I'm still a director of it but my son has it and uses it in conjunction with his and he does […]

Betty Batchelor

[…] want to know why he got the sack fromMatesco as an electrician, because he was found reading the Daily Worker, this was 1929, and he opened a little radio and television shop at Hayes Ends.Sid Cole: After that.Betty Bachelor: very sympatheticRF: Do you know?Betty Bachelor: of agreements, Yes. Which[…]

Paula Wright (Springall)

[…]and trying To remember the director that did Scrooge.Unknown Speaker  32:55  Yeah,Speaker 2  33:02  his name was mentioned on the radio. It'll come to me. It always does. Usually comes to me late in the evening when I'm doing my thinking.Speaker 2  33:21  Wendy toy, whe[…]

Doris Martin

[…]t us, what's a girl doing out there. [Laughter] There was another actress and myself and they gave us rooms to stay but we couldn't sleep because the radio was going all night, so we took out mattresses, well we got someone to carry them up and we went to sleep right under the light there. SC: […]

Geoffrey MacAdam Foot

[…]e friends who were not having influence, but they knew people. And I had various interviews, and I saw Sidney Mosley, who, at that time was, I think, radio and film critic for The Herald. And he got me a couple of interviews, one with Bill Hammond, another one with Bill Lott at Ealing. Well, Bill Ha[…]

John Shearman

[…]ve a proper dubbing facility out there at that did you have a recording facility out there? Yes, we did, mainly on quarter inch tape, because Baghdad radio had two of those huge old EMI machines, and we did quite a lot on those, and we had our own no they were not Narcos, but the equivalent slip tap[…]

Winston (Wyn) Ryder

[…]l over, Berlin, coming back with tapes, quarter inch tapes of the Blue Danube, etc. And his wife had heard something on the Third Programme, [now BBC Radio 3] this [György] Ligeti thing, this strange noise theyused for the obelisk cube, and there was in great letters across it not to be removed from[…]
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