[…]r have, I would suppose. Anyway. I also then decided I would try my luck. The BBC and I went to the easiest thing. The thing I used to follow was the Radio Times I bought, I'd like to do some of those drawings. And I went along, and I met the art director was absolute charmer. Fellow called Ma[…]
[…]ir heart.VG: They did indeed; Miss London Ltd was a big success. I had him singing and dancing and everything in that.RF: Bandwaggon was based on the radio show.VG: I had very little to do with that, I drafted a script and polished a final script but I was really doing my fire training then, that wa[…]
[…] find out where the German submarines were coming in and radio to destroyers, to outside and tell them, that was […]
[…] vetting it. And the Head of, Director of, television and radio broadcasting of the agency phoned me and he said […]
[…]it over, and we picked 90 in the stage. That had to be a good guess, you see. And a funny thing is, I heard two days after we had settled on that the Radio Corporation, no, not Radio Corporation, the Acoustic Society of America and thetechnicians or someone of America. I forget who it was. Stan[…]
[…]to say one very likely, very likely, anyway it was a dragon type with our hats. Anyway, I got in and they sent me off to an engineering department in radio and of course I was pretty flummoxed.Norman Swallow: Was that at Broadcasting House?Julia Cave: It was; no, it was Egton or somewhere, it […]
[…]idn't dare do anything unpleasant. So this mystery trip was going to be sent there to try and find out where the German submarines were coming in and radio to destroyers, to outside and tell them, that was what I was supposed to be doing. But of course, they didn't understand us. I said, "If you're […]
[…]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[…]
[…]t to live within it. And at that time of course there was less problems; there was no inflation and we had a rising income all the time, we went from radio to television, from television to colour television and there was always a rising income and the BBC was very well off. In fact, the government […]
