[…] me things that just went over my head. I wasn't interested. But when I got to Evesham, everything they were teaching me was focused on television or radio or engineering of all aspects, from electrical to mechanical as well and electronic. So because it was so interesting, I just really got into it[…]
[…]ers which they put on a train and we weren't very popular. Anyway, we didn't teach them to Tanks, I was there to teach calorie and wireless procedure radio was called wireless in those days. I mean, tanks have a lot of radio in them. And this was done. And they were all ready to do something practic[…]
[…]s, she was. And then we had Val Gielgud who worked mainly from Broadcasting House but came down twice a week.[40:18]He still had his connections with radio?Oh yes, yes.That was his main job?Yes, yes. I don’t know what Michael was doing at this point, had he gone to directing?Michael Barry?Yes. Where[…]
[…]s a book. I'm putting the book on the table. I'm lifting the book off the table". This kind of thing. Anyway, I spent five months in Paris doing some radio work. One of the other people who was down and out and getting a bit of money doing radio work was... Ian...Ian ...oh lord... Ian Mc-something, […]
[…]ege I was … went to the careers office and they suggested me for two basic jobs, and one was a research oficer at Equity and one was a trainee in BBC radio, and I applied for both and got down to the last two of the Equity job, but i was, you know, all I had was an academic degree I had absolutely n[…]
[…]s time. And when I left Kent College I went back to London and lived with my grandmother and I attended Regent Street Polytechnic and took courses in radio communications because, I�d always been my ambition to get a job in the BBC. The reason being that next door but one to us in Acton lived a rela[…]
[…] YEARS OF THE HISTORY PROJECT HISTORY PROJECT FILM TELEVISION THEATRE RADIO JIM WHITTELL EXHIBITOR Interviewer: Sir Sydney Samuelson Date: 6 […]
[…] YEARS OF THE HISTORY PROJECT HISTORY PROJECT FILM TELEVISION THEATRE RADIO JIM WHITTELL EXHIBITOR Interviewer: Sir Sydney Samuelson Date: 6 […]
[…] take it, you, there was no question of it being radio controlled or anything it was actually, you know, plugged […]
