[…]s formed, etc.Speaker 2 0:52 Yes, I can say that the Society was formed in 1976. Tony, sadly died in 1968, and the BBC have repeated some radio and television shows to the time of his death. And then there's been nothing at all. And there were a lot of fans of Tony Hancock, that we're we[…]
[…] 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[…]
[…]ing at all or training for later life? Er you know before you started work?Dallas Bower 01:35No none whatsoever. My interest in radio was sparked off at Hurst by a senior boy who was given permission to work on a small valve set, which in those days of course was something very[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] and I attended Regent Street Polytechnic and took courses in radio communications because, I�d always been my ambition to get […]
[…]p; But I used to get Richard for 5 guineas and 10 guineas, and I said, “Richard, but you can earn 40 guineas” because he was very well established in radio. “Ah, my boy” he said, “Television is the medium of the future and I am going to be the best commentator in television.” And he was very f[…]
[…]e and said ‘All right, if you want to go out and get a job, get a job, but what do you want to do?’ By this time, I had been very interested in radio, made a little crystal set and that sort of thing which one could expect in those days. And said ‘All right, well I think I know somebody […]
[…]were you aiming to do? Bill Ward 1:28 I didn't know. I never had any idea. Hadn't the faintest idea? I got into into radio because I joined BBC Plymouth, 5PY, which was a local radio station BBC, of course, had to be in those days, 1932 ,32 and my father k[…]
[…]ncensored, and it was on the screens at length. Ronnie then had the great nous to link up with Rene Cutforth. Rene was there as the BBC’s radio reporter and they were briefed to get together. Now here were two massive personalities, Ronnie Noble and Rene Cutforth, and of course at […]
