[…]ndon with a Cable and Wireless company making telephone cable, basically. But I we had no, no hook up with with BBC, we listen to it. Listen to it on radio every, every day, basically. And when I was three and a half, the war started and and that part of London, they decided, in all the children had[…]
[…]ng otherwise for quite a few more years.Alan Lawson: Was there much call for that kind of thing?John Turner: There was at that time. If you listen to radio now, some of these things they're doing, what are they called? 'On These Days' or something? A hell of a lot of Path stuff in that.Alan Lawson: […]
[…]gin with to play small parts, and then I went to Australia and New Zealand for a year which I enjoyed very much with the company. And then joined the radio station in Wellington. Then I came home and continued my career. Someone I met early on in my career was Roy Boulting who was a tremendous encou[…]
[…]h, you know,behaving, both of them, appallingly. I mean there was no way of pretending they weren’t.Anyway, Cav was going to be interviewed on German radio, thank heavens, and he had agreed to give the interview in French and there was this sort of lounge where all the delegates used to gather, and […]
[…]m they’ve got the RKO symbol in the background and I suggested that there was an easy way to make the lightning flashes work. The RKO symbol was this radio tower mast with lightning flashes. So how to do that on the set of the film, I came up with a solution which I think was effective and simple. I[…]
[…]mmes - um - and then Edward Barnes - um - um01:27:30JOE: I think it was Monica SimmsQ: Yeah probably she went on to be - Controller of Channel - um - Radio Four and all sorts01:27:36JOE: I think it - yeah I think it was her - she had written it more or less - and produced it as wellQ: Oh no - no she[…]
[…]lous players, I remember meeting Dennis Brain, he was the greatest horn player of all timeUB: I met all those, there’s one now doing a lot of work on Radio 3, clarinet player....SC: You wouldn’t have known by then but was a great friend in fact of Thomas BeechamUB: Yes he was, I never met BeechamSC:[…]
[…]s born in a lovely little village called Carluke, which is now a town. Mining village. Everybody knew everybody else and nobody had any telly. It was radio or nothing. And the first time I was introduced to telly was 1953 - nine years old, next door neighbour who had their own little baker's busines[…]
[…]terviews became part of what the Sound Archive was able to give access to and the result of that has been some joint programming as part of the BBC’s Radio Centenary programming over the last four years.Before we leave oral history I should also complete the circle and say that another of Kay Gladst[…]
[…] reporting to the Director of Finance and I.T. Rodney Baker Bates with sponsorship from Managing Director Television Will Wyatt and Managing Director Radio, I can’t remember who who that was at the time but the the issue there was that they didn't want it to be another big initiative like Producer C[…]
