[…] stuff like that and it was all in black-and-white as it happened. So I had a good baptism of fire, you know. We got a car from BMC and they wanted a radio in it, and if they wanted a radio in it, I had to make one. I did have several outside sometimes. But of course, then we were over at Beaconsfie[…]
[…]a bit it a very fine film yes. And we had I think we had a young radio made John Davis Diana. Diana showed on Danny's it. Oh she was in it. […]
[…]ere had been a big gap in between, I don’t know, anyway I didn’t.AL: Your children, have they gone into films?DA: No, but Caroline is with the BBC in radio, Caroline is the editor of a programme called Analysis which comes on Thursday night and Friday morning on Radio 4 and it's rather an updated cu[…]
[…]days I don’t know what it was called – but they seemed to think I should know something about RDF which was the name then given to what is now Radar, Radio Direction Finding, RDF to the Artillery.So I was sent to a training camp at Watchet in Somerset and it was there that I met John Cox who was als[…]
[…]ution to the Commonwealth Games, which was opened by David Steele MP at the time. Steve Morrison did a whole thing on this, on BBC Television and BBC Radio and got sacked by the BBC for doing it because he hadn't told them what it was about. They didn't realise it was a protest against the Commonwea[…]
[…]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 […]
[…]and taken me along with it. Well it was a scheme was rather difficult to explain but basically it was supplying newspaper editors television channels radio channels with how much space each news story had been given to each newspaper every day. And from that we were going to develop into a press cut[…]
[…]ve a proper dubbing facility out there at that did you have a recording facility out there? Yes, we did, mainly on quarter inch tape, because Baghdad radio had two of those huge old EMI machines, and we did quite a lot on those, and we had our own no they were not Narcos, but the equivalent slip tap[…]
[…] But technology has now improved, they can put mics on them and God knows what else. And there was a very funny situation, talking about mics on, the radio mikes on the set, where on a certain picture a gentleman who had been a little bit naughty with a lady of the night and caught a little disease […]
