[…]a sort of hazy and romantic notion of soldiering which stayed with me for a very long time and certainly survived the Second World War. Since I wrote radio programs and eventually made films about soldiers and war and so on. But the education thing came from my parents aspirations for us, he o[…]
[…]as he and I found when we all worked together with about another 18 Johns years ago. But John started life in broadcasting with the BBC in radio in programme engineering, eventually became a studio manager and eventually a producer of radio, moved to the north to Manchester, did some tele[…]
[…]something. In the mid ‘50s. We never had television until about 1958 – somewhere round there – 57 / 58. MDYou were growing up in the radio era then? BAIt was the radio. We had a big Marconi radio. It was quite a good one, but my father had to put it right on top of […]
[…]was a interesting journey every day in both directions. And when they went on to a levels, which I did, I was sort of ScienceBase I got my my amateur radio licence, I'd always had an interest from very young child didn't electrical matters and so on. There was the farmer agenda we were surrounded by[…]
[…]t song also appeared to bring contented smiles to their faces! At one stage in the afternoon of the day of the Premiere we had a foyer full of press, radio, a replica plane and TV cameras recording interviews when in walked Ted’s Regional Manager David Williams. He cornered me and asked what was goi[…]
[…]ing else, he'd just gone completely, it wasn't his fault. He said I'm just not able to do my job, we were beyond, we went so far north we were beyond radio contact and you didn't have radar either so he said I'll give you a course home. They'd given us a tail wind instead of a head wind which meant […]
[…] ordinary, sort of full-wave rectifiers that you find in a radio station, banks of them. And so all you had […]
[…]nly started getting interested in television. I used to buy Cans[?] comics, a sort of a technical paper, a technical book for people building amateur radios and stuff like that. And this was the time when the BBC were transmitting 30 line TV on long-wave I think, and medium-wave.Alan Lawson: Yes.Dav[…]
[…]e war finished, I was seconded by my regiment to become the Unterhaltungschef of Nordwest Deutsche Rundfunk in Hamburg when we de-Nazified the German radio system. So that was extremely fortunate.We were then evacuated in the week before the war as an entire school from Lewisham to Tunbridge Wells i[…]
[…]ing that. So being the hands and feet of the actors whilst they're walking around with their scripts. In between that I would do things like slapping radio mics on a pebble Miller one and any programmes that I think I was, I was there for the last two or three years of Palmetto at one.Unknown Speake[…]
