John Ammonds

[…]as he and I found when we all worked together with about another 18 Johns years ago. But John  started life in broadcasting with the BBC in radio in programme engineering, eventually became a studio manager and eventually a producer of radio, moved to the north to Manchester, did some tele[…]

Ronald Neame

[…]here's one other absolutely stunning scene, which is very theatrical. But it works marvelously in film, which is when reg is killed. Oh, yes. And the radio is playing and the camera just flops around slowly. That Ronald Neame  1:18:35  was that was my idea. And I'll bet you […]

Francis Searle

[…] canRoy Fowler  12:33  you remember an oval team commercial? What was in it? My recollection of pre war oval team was the old teenagers and radio Luxembourg? Was it that sort of thing? No,Speaker 2  12:45  that's a bit of a title. They they all had to have. They're all they're al[…]

Roy Fowler

[…]ery early Steptoes.  No actually maybe I'm wrong about this maybe it was 2” Quad tape because one could see it was obviously 405 and in the Radio Times it said it had been restored by the BFI. So some, thought to be lost, so maybe it was on tape and someone found the tape. What?Rodney Gies[…]

Oswald (Ossie) Morris

[…] luckily you know you're trained and you're told what to do a rate one turn the port and then win the win the air field yes Clearview wingtip another radio one turned aport you're on the downwind keeper 800 feet and win the whole air field disappears under your wing tip another great one start to lo[…]

Daphne Shadwell

[…] and we’re at the flat of John and Daphne Shadwell in Paddington and Roberto Champredanc [ph], this is your life![laughter]Daphne Shadwell, long time radio and television practitioner. Daphne, starting at the beginning – when, where?DS: Well, when I was born, I was born in Wandsworth […]

James (Jimmy) Gilbert

[…]ing else, he'd just gone completely, it wasn't his fault. He said I'm just not able to do my job, we were beyond, we went so far north we were beyond radio contact and you didn't have radar either so he said I'll give you a course home. They'd given us a tail wind instead of a head wind which meant […]

Yvonne Littlewood

[…]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 […]

Sydney Samuelson

[…]rs and years and years it was all shot by usAnd we geared ourselves to provide the specialist equipment that was needed. I can remember introducing a radio mike to Candid Camera (yes, yes) for the first time. Didn’t work very well but never the less (laughter) it was a big step forward (laughter) be[…]
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