[…]ers which they put on a train and we weren't very popular. Anyway, we didn't teach them to Tanks, I was there to teach calorie and wireless procedure radio was called wireless in those days. I mean, tanks have a lot of radio in them. And this was done. And they were all ready to do something practic[…]
[…], because I'm read the Hong Kong norm and Panama was the director. Now he was associated with a guy called Melvin Frank. They had made started out in radio shows actually. And they were orientated, particularly Norman, around words rather than visuals, visuals. And Norman found it to be distracting […]
[…]s at Catterick with this lovely status of "Excused Boots". It was a marvellous skive. I did no infantry training. Only technical training. I became a radio mechanic. Then another thing happened there. I was reading voraciously. I used to buy the Penguin Film Review.John Legard: A nice magazine that.[…]
[…] life and yours as well. Bateman was who he was, an accountant, a chartered accountant, who worked for the rank organization at the beginning. He ran Radio Pictures. He was the secretary, charter Secretary Radio Pictures. And he was, he had three big film companies to run. He was the secretary, touc[…]
[…]to him or her, whoever it was! And this simple question, and it was this: it said, "What would happen if a lifeboat sent out an SOS from its portable radio, giving its position and a U-boat, peering at it through its periscope, picked the message up through the aerial in the periscope and the U-boat[…]
[…]all commentaries ever since they started broadcasting them on television and even on radio. So he was a very expert man and very well known. So he fronted the&n[…]
[…]t was after my demob in 46 that I got my first permanent job which was BBC Radio. Stephen Peet: While you were at school and Keeble College were you a greatmovi[…]
[…]uld be highly delighted. Miniature lapel microphones appeared which could be concealed but they're not usually as good as having a proper microphone. Radio mikes are of course very popular but they cannot always be relied upon. So really these improvements fall into several areas.Peter Musgrave: Do […]
[…]Telex seems comparatively recent. One used to rely on cables and little [incomp – 54:39] with twigs [?] running through the jungle. Or rather dubious radio connections between wherever the nearest capital or centre was and radio out with the unit.What were some of the titles? You’ve mentioned one or[…]
[…]tel?John Shirley  33:45  No, no, no. No, just down? Well, I say about three miles from where I was staying. There was aplace where they did radio shows. It was a commercial radio station if you like when I say station. I don't know if they actually broadcast from there. But they certainly […]
