[…]ndon with a Cable and Wireless company making telephone cable, basically. But I we had no, no hook up with with BBC, we listen to it. Listen to it on radio every, every day, basically. And when I was three and a half, the war started and and that part of London, they decided, in all the children had[…]
[…]s at Catterick with this lovely status of "Excused Boots". It was a marvellous skive. I did no infantry training. Only technical training. I became a radio mechanic. Then another thing happened there. I was reading voraciously. I used to buy the Penguin Film Review.John Legard: A nice magazine that.[…]
[…]rs and years and years it was all shot by usAnd we geared ourselves to provide the specialist equipment that was needed. I can remember introducing a radio mike to Candid Camera (yes, yes) for the first time. Didn’t work very well but never the less (laughter) it was a big step forward (laughter) be[…]
[…]worth, Mary Cockey as she was then. Do you remember Mary Mackworth? I: Yes. And was there any attempt at giving you experience in television and radio? R: No. Radio, yes, I did, yes, I did quite a lot of broadcasting. You were taken up to the, or, you were offered, wanted students to go an[…]
[…]at came out forecasting out. Stephen Peet 16:32 Just Just a word. This is in the 60s. What about what are your thoughts in radio? And Leo? Did you think of television, Mike Fentiman 16:40 I hadn't thought of television in 1961. What was also amaz[…]
[…]ers which they put on a train and we weren't very popular. Anyway, we didn't teach them to Tanks, I was there to teach calorie and wireless procedure radio was called wireless in those days. I mean, tanks have a lot of radio in them. And this was done. And they were all ready to do something practic[…]
[…]r have, I would suppose. Anyway. I also then decided I would try my luck. The BBC and I went to the easiest thing. The thing I used to follow was the Radio Times I bought, I'd like to do some of those drawings. And I went along, and I met the art director was absolute charmer. Fellow called Ma[…]
[…]ine camera, ‘standard’ or ‘regular eight’ in those days. And my job was to film the family holidays, that sort of thing. And then my hobby of amateur radio, “ham radio”, [callsign GM3PSP], was developing as well, including portable expeditions and things like that. So I shot quite a lot of 8mm film […]
[…]o everybody as Pussy.
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Anne V Coates Roy Fowler
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There was a radio programme not so long ago with, in which your cousin would have – one of J Arthur’s daughters spoke about...
Oh. Oh Shelah, Shelagh wasn’t it[…]
