[…]the Triffid’ which was a bit of a romp?C. D. Another big picture at Shepperton. Mainly of course with the Special Effects, who made all the Triffids, radio controlled. It was the most remarkable set we built. In the story 'The Day of the Triffids’ the whole world goes blind except one or two people […]
[…]all commentaries ever since they started broadcasting them on television and even on radio. So he was a very expert man and very well known. So he fronted the&n[…]
[…]atoes and cabbages and lettuces. So that he must have come down some sometimes not at the weekend. Because I remember very clearly sitting around the radio and listening with him and splitting with after over eight rounds. Itma went out Thursday.Alan Lawson 27:10 Do you kno w […]
[…]s. And as it happened, I didn't finish up in the BBC, but I might I haven't finished yet. What was in his name. No wonder was, I don't know, probably radio producing that sort of thing. No, I meantRoy Fowler 14:38 by that. Was it kind of the fates of younger sons or Second Sons in those […]
[…]days I don’t know what it was called – but they seemed to think I should know something about RDF which was the name then given to what is now Radar, Radio Direction Finding, RDF to the Artillery.So I was sent to a training camp at Watchet in Somerset and it was there that I met John Cox who was als[…]
[…]in Northern Ireland.Unknown Speaker 3:59 And I was wondering when you were growing up? Were you an avid Regulus? That was That wasn't the radio. And the Did you always know even from a very young age, even when you were a schoolboy that you wanted to be a journalist?Unknown Speaker […]
[…]I joined St. Andrew's Ambulance, sort of like, group, you know, for first aiders. And part of that, the only reason I joined it was 'cause they ran a radio station called Radio Hairmyres in East Kilbride so my first technical gazette, they had to put me in as a Presenter at one point which was rubbi[…]
[…]ason we were playing cards not my father I think but with the next door neighbours, but there was no television after all, I think we listened to the radio sometimes. There was never enough good lighting in the drawing room at Upper Parrock to read books properly, I used to go up to my bedroom to re[…]
