[…]s time. And when I left Kent College I went back to London and lived with my grandmother and I attended Regent Street Polytechnic and took courses in radio communications because, I�d always been my ambition to get a job in the BBC. The reason being that next door but one to us in Acton lived a rela[…]
[…]as a bit crap and that. So anyway, so then I just got more and more involved in the Union locally. And then Andy moved into television. I was in radio, don't forget. So then they set up a Radio subdivision committee and a Television subdivision [committee]. So in the radio one would be studio m[…]
[…] The copyright of this recording is vested in the British Entertainment History Project. The name of the interviewee is Pete Murray, OBE, radio DJ, TV presenter, stage, screen and TV actor. The date is 10 May 2016. This is Interview No. 684 and my name is Mike Dick. OK […]
[…]vening...voluntary...and it takes a lot...awful lot of money...and he said we'd like to give some...prizes, and they sent up half a dozen Motorola er radios for the cars, as a gift, and that was some Swiss[?]. Yeah, they were very good.Alan Lawson: And, do you know, that's the first time I've ever h[…]
[…]m, but to get things and he wants to let me know in a letter that, you know, my contribution to Civilization had been ignored and also cut out of the Radio Times the piece he'd written for the Radio Times. I don't know what he had to say. But it was the actual transmission first transmission was on […]
[…]ther was when we were machine gunned while I was to in my prayer. I remember very clearly a machine gun by German fighter machine gun in the seafront one Sunday afternoon. So we survived but the cinema of course in those days was the outlet for us as she was a working class kids because I was brough[…]
[…] was not really prepared for anything, I would say, and hadn't any clear idea what I wanted to do...I just wanted to get to work. I was interested in radio, so I was making radio sets and reading and that sort of thing...and electricity. And I became acquainted with a chap on the Hampstead Garden Su[…]
[…] think really.What about theatre and so on, I mean, because it’s all wartime so there wasn’t much was there, even the, one’s entertainment was mainly radio of course.We didn’t get to much. I can remember going to, I can remember taking a younger cousin of mine to one of the Ivor Novello things and I[…]
[…] there, while I was in this camp doing this film, there was an English Medical Officer, a Russian Sergeant Major who had been captured and an English radio operator - we had radio contact with some battalion somewhere. But you see, all of these nationalities, all around - they'd get their own back o[…]
[…]s a book. I'm putting the book on the table. I'm lifting the book off the table". This kind of thing. Anyway, I spent five months in Paris doing some radio work. One of the other people who was down and out and getting a bit of money doing radio work was... Ian...Ian ...oh lord... Ian Mc-something, […]
