Wendy Toye

[…]my name was very well known. And the sort of things happened to me – which were great fun – when Jackie Coogan came over, and I heard somebody on the radio the other day who said they'd named their grandchild Coogan after Jackie Coogan,LW: Brian CloughWT: That's right, and it all brought it back to […]

Dicky Leeman

[…]over in the south, in the distance, it was like lights all over the place. And we couldn't make out what it was. And the next morning we heard on the radio it was Crystal Palace had been burnt down, which was... And it was a cold night, we could have done with some of that heat there, I can tell you[…]

Cyril Pennington-Richards

[…] Pennington-Richards: I don't think it was but er... And then I started up various businesses and eventually at the age of seventeen I started a radio business, which was very successful and I made a lot of money. I got a bit bored with it and I had a cousin who was making advertising films and[…]

Roger Davis

[…]was a interesting journey every day in both directions. And when they went on to a levels, which I did, I was sort of ScienceBase I got my my amateur radio licence, I'd always had an interest from very young child didn't electrical matters and so on. There was the farmer agenda we were surrounded by[…]

Alf Cooper

[…]re?19No, they were using sight developing. It was whilst I was there we started up, we started up while I was working there making dip tests for, for Radio Luxembourg was it with the, with the early morning and taped news, and the, and the, and the sound tracks were developed then in the early hours[…]

Jimmy Wright

[…]nbsp;coastal travel and coastal vessels. Or submarines or any hostile enemy any ship radio back and the petrol bombers would go out and they were fitted with a […]

Geoff Hermges

[…]ers and our own tele city and everything there. So basically anything on the sound side I could check internally. And we also had, of course, had the radio division, so I had access to their sound equipment there. So sound was no problem. Camera wise. I mean, I had to depend if there were any questi[…]

Julia Cave

[…]to say one very likely, very likely, anyway it was a dragon type with our hats. Anyway, I got in and they sent me off to an engineering department in radio and of course I was pretty flummoxed.Norman Swallow:  Was that at Broadcasting House?Julia Cave: It was; no, it was Egton or somewhere, it […]

Mat Irvine

[…]would you say what I know of it, what do you want to do? So we'll we'll devise it and we got another affects peripheral guys. Direct Foxwell on whose radio control you know what Battle of Britain flying, you know, flies on a regular you control stuff because all the robots we say robots are not robo[…]

Ted (Robert Edward) Newman

[…]t was a very high class setup. I was a huge thing when I went down to see him and he said every 20 minutes we're getting a buzzing sound on the on my radio, and he says I worked on the recording morning departure. And he says I automatically connected with changeovers. Now he was when he wasn't far […]
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