[…] The copyright of this recording is vested in the British Entertainment History Project. The name of the interviewee is Pete Murray, OBE, radio DJ, TV presenter, stage, screen and TV actor. The date is 10 May 2016. This is Interview No. 684 and my name is Mike Dick. OK […]
[…]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 […]
[…]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[…]
[…]u want to do. And I thought that somehow the BBC was associated with music and the Arts and I suppose...Mm.I must have got this from listening to the radio. And so I wrote and they said I could go up for an interview and I, because I'd done Shorthand and Typing at school and they said ‘Okay’. So up […]
[…] Mm. I must have got this from listening to the radio. And so I wrote and they said I could […]
[…] that time, had a studio called Cleveland Hall in Cleveland Street. And it, a great deal of its revenue came from recording daily, the programmes for Radio Luxembourg, and we had people who were famous in those days in the pop music line like... can't think of their names... and Savoy Orpheans, the&[…]
