[…] 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 […]
[…] 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[…]
[…] just wanted to get to work. I was interested in radio, so I was making radio sets and reading and […]
[…] take it, you, there was no question of it being radio controlled or anything it was actually, you know, plugged […]
[…] 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[…]
[…] 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[…]
[…] find out where the German submarines were coming in and radio to destroyers, to outside and tell them, that was […]
[…]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[…]
[…]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 […]
[…] 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[…]
