[…]y early example of networking. I became secretary to the head of Children's Hour in Birmingham Joyce Robinson 7:51 Is this radio? Lois Singer 7:52 This is radio. Lois Singer 7:54 This lady was an old girl at the s[…]
[…]t from factory to factory, I was either sacked or I left. And by that time I suppose, by the time I was getting near 17, 16½, 17, I heard jazz on the radio, Louis Armstrong and things, and this was a revelation to me. And also my early culture was the cinema. It really was the cinema. I didn't go to[…]
[…]p; But I used to get Richard for 5 guineas and 10 guineas, and I said, “Richard, but you can earn 40 guineas” because he was very well established in radio. “Ah, my boy” he said, “Television is the medium of the future and I am going to be the best commentator in television.” And he was very f[…]
[…]. Well I was doing these clubs. Now one of the clubs was frequented by journalists -I didn’t know it at the time – and reporters at the BBC which was radio in those days. And I went in with my papers as I did once a day, shouting out “Germans in Berlin, Star paper” and a man behind the bar said “The[…]
[…] ordinary, sort of full-wave rectifiers that you find in a radio station, banks of them. And so all you had […]
[…]nly started getting interested in television. I used to buy Cans[?] comics, a sort of a technical paper, a technical book for people building amateur radios and stuff like that. And this was the time when the BBC were transmitting 30 line TV on long-wave I think, and medium-wave.Alan Lawson: Yes.Dav[…]