[…]idn't dare do anything unpleasant. So this mystery trip was going to be sent there to try and find out where the German submarines were coming in and radio to destroyers, to outside and tell them, that was what I was supposed to be doing. But of course, they didn't understand us. I said, "If you're […]
[…]ational came up said look, we want you to take the job. And I hadn't as yet heard back from the BBC. And unbeknown to me my brother, who was in sound radio, had been since the war was from 1938. It was he had applied for the job. And of course on the notice board was just assistant sound recorders s[…]
[…]ege I was … went to the careers office and they suggested me for two basic jobs, and one was a research oficer at Equity and one was a trainee in BBC radio, and I applied for both and got down to the last two of the Equity job, but i was, you know, all I had was an academic degree I had absolutely n[…]
[…] USA. Also, Gene Nelson from the USA, Kathleen Harrison, Ben Lyon. Ben Lyon, I'd like to mention the fact that erm  to mention Ben Lyon with his radio show, his Life with the Ly ons. Ben Lyon came to Merton Park Studios as a base for 20th Century Fox to do screen tests, and they used Merton Par[…]
[…] didn’t have to do an edit in it. And, and also because of the length of the, of the cable you had to take it, you, there was no question of it being radio controlled or anything it was actually, you know, plugged in to the wall somewhere. Then you ran round the studio with this great length of cabl[…]
[…]s just love him.SF: I’m sure.And oh God if only there were more people like him.SF: Wonderful. There’s a whole series of interviews on The BBC, BBC3, Radio Three I suppose, with Joan Bakewell. Now I don’t dislike Joan, she’s a progressive lady and bought things for Vietnam and medical aid exhibition[…]
[…]leaned up again and become very expensive. But when we lived there, it was basic. And we somehow made do. I used to hide in the cupboard, which had a radio above it, it was already inbuilt. And I used to listen to all the radio programmes. And I, to this day, remember, things like "Much Binding in t[…]
[…]times ‘relaxing’ is about change, doing something different. That can be just as relaxing. I mean, I think now the word ‘relax’, like you have on the radio these voices which sound like they’re about to go to sleep telling you to relax, that’s the image we have of ‘relaxing’ now.JR: Yes, that’s a ve[…]
[…]int. And was obviously an imminent candidate for being called up. But in fact, what I was, what happened to me was that I was directed to the mullard radio valve factory in Mitcham. In Surrey, and I spent some months there and then finally was called up and went into REME  Royal electrical and […]
[…]n cinema as a child, Donald Wilson 1:32we had a touring cinema which came around to our town hall. And it was one of the because we had no radio no known, nothing else. And we used to go down the hill family office used to go down and we saw the westerns and pedal bikes and all those thin[…]
