[…]nd, well like most of the ships who went actually, he was sunk, but he was captured, and he finished up a few days later broadcasting for the Italian radio - which didn't go down very well. So, that was the only time they actually stopped us going, but otherwise I used to ignore the Fleet Press Liai[…]
[…], you know, it ain't the biggest crime in the world and I said, but people do take a fairly poor view of people who listen in to ambulance/police via radio. Funnily enough old Sydney who was still alive was at this lunch that Dorothy gave two or three years ago. I didn't bring the subject up again b[…]
[…] was May the eighth 1945. And wiki lady was around about the same time. And then after we could lady, I got one or two jobs sort of fill in operator, radio bush. And most of the time we own permanent on the permanent staff. They're not at the other permanent staff. There's no written contract, but w[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] ordinary, sort of full-wave rectifiers that you find in a radio station, banks of them. And so all you had […]
[…]nly started getting interested in television. I used to buy Cans[?] comics, a sort of a technical paper, a technical book for people building amateur radios and stuff like that. And this was the time when the BBC were transmitting 30 line TV on long-wave I think, and medium-wave.Alan Lawson: Yes.Dav[…]
[…]hen lastAlan Legard 21:11 thing that he and I did together with somebody called Colin Moffett, who was a mutual friend of ours, who was a radio producer now. And he did a just on a programme about the life of Humphrey Jennings. Oh, yes, I heard that programme. And Alvin was one of the sp[…]
[…]e latter period. Before that I was working on all the CrazyGang films and Stinker Murdoch Pictures, comedies came the in. They were a pick upfrom the radio series .. I am trying to think of the last of the will Hay pictures we did there,Roy Fowler: Old BonesMaurice Carter: Old Bones that was much la[…]
[…]ason we were playing cards not my father I think but with the next door neighbours, but there was no television after all, I think we listened to the radio sometimes. There was never enough good lighting in the drawing room at Upper Parrock to read books properly, I used to go up to my bedroom to re[…]
[…]. Well I was doing these clubs. Now one of the clubs was frequented by journalists -I didn’t know it at the time – and reporters at the BBC which was radio in those days. And I went in with my papers as I did once a day, shouting out “Germans in Berlin, Star paper” and a man behind the bar said “The[…]
