[…] 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[…]
[…] you know. He didn’t write Tim Frazer but he wrote ones like that. He brought in Francis Durbridge and so on and all that.  Yes, mm.So…Who had a radio track record.Absolutely.Yes.Yes, absolutely.Mm, and at what stage did that develop? How, what was, what did that…?How did that all change?How di[…]
[…]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 […]
[…]rding is vested in the British Entertainment History Project. The name of the interviewee is Madeline Smith; film, television and theatre actress and radio. The interviewer is Mike Dick, and John Luton is on camera. The interview number is seven two two and the date is the 13th of March 2024. Okay, […]
[…]y early example of networking. I became secretary to the head of Children's Hour in Birmingham Joyce Robinson  7:51  Is this radio? Lois Singer  7:52   This is radio. Lois Singer  7:54  This lady was an old girl at the s[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]hat one left at that age in order to grow up and start work and earn some money. I my first job was. At Maidenhead and it was with and Emma Stone the radio and lighting people I it was you remember they're there to change jobs.SPEAKER: F11Yes. Yeah yeah yeah.SPEAKER: F9I worked there for a very shor[…]
[…]t of well. There's a numberSpeaker 1  27:52  of genres if you like, for example, there were all these detectives, many from either books or radio series, mainly in the States. There was a few British but Bulldog Drummond and so on, but they were often made in Hollywood anyway. It was all t[…]
[…]ve been a television programme maker for the past 50 years, always freelance. And of course, being freelance has advantages and disadvantages. On the one hand, you don't have security. But on the other hand, you do have up to a point, the freedom of choice. So that's I think it's really important if[…]
[…]ead by now. And. Politically unreliable. They said that this meant Europe or the US is and we can offer you a job running manager or whatever the new radio station. So we you know we're about show business.SPEAKER: F8And so is a show on the show. There is one snag is that in our current form the onl[…]
