[…]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 […]
[…]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[…]
[…] was May the eighth 1945. And wiki lady was around about the same time. And then after we could lady, I got one or two jobs sort of fill in operator, radio bush. And most of the time we own permanent on the permanent staff. They're not at the other permanent staff. There's no written contract, but w[…]
[…]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 […]
[…]the end of 1940, we got moved out somewhere round October.Roy Fowler: You were part of the BBC rep?Robert Beatty: No, I was reading news. I was doing Radio Newsreel. I was in it for about a year and a half.Roy Fowler: This was auntie unbending from the dinner jacket and black-tie image.Robert Beatty[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] following annual oral history releases, with the current theme of Radio Re -inv ented. The accompanying materials have also been […]
[…] on and all that. Yes, mm. So… Who had a radio track record. Absolutely. Yes. Yes, absolutely. Mm, and at […]
[…] it was. And the next morning we heard on the radio it was Crystal Palace had been burnt down, which […]
[…] somehow. The was a half reasonable excuse. They were saying this is so realistic, that the effect could be like the notorious War of the Worlds, the radio show that Orson Welles produced and people were committing suicide because they were actually Martians coming down there Main Street. Obviously […]
