[…]a sort of hazy and romantic notion of soldiering which stayed with me for a very long time and certainly survived the Second World War. Since I wrote radio programs and eventually made films about soldiers and war and so on. But the education thing came from my parents aspirations for us, he o[…]
[…]as he and I found when we all worked together with about another 18 Johns years ago. But John started life in broadcasting with the BBC in radio in programme engineering, eventually became a studio manager and eventually a producer of radio, moved to the north to Manchester, did some tele[…]
[…] I was interested in sound and I built a shortwave radio, the usual things a boy does, and so my […]
[…]something. In the mid ‘50s. We never had television until about 1958 – somewhere round there – 57 / 58. MDYou were growing up in the radio era then? BAIt was the radio. We had a big Marconi radio. It was quite a good one, but my father had to put it right on top of […]
[…]ing else, he'd just gone completely, it wasn't his fault. He said I'm just not able to do my job, we were beyond, we went so far north we were beyond radio contact and you didn't have radar either so he said I'll give you a course home. They'd given us a tail wind instead of a head wind which meant […]
[…]here's one other absolutely stunning scene, which is very theatrical. But it works marvelously in film, which is when reg is killed. Oh, yes. And the radio is playing and the camera just flops around slowly. That Ronald Neame 1:18:35 was that was my idea. And I'll bet you […]
[…] at all really. Oh, well, actually, Michael Powell had his feelings terribly, because he always built some lovely sets. And he was interviewed on the radio about the sets which the interviewer saw, and he thought, he said, Mr. Youngest has the terrific and Michael Powell, I think it stinks, just lik[…]
[…]ve performances was mainly what you did. Nowadays performers have got so many different things they have to think about, they have got to think about radio, they have got to think about television, they've got to think about video recording, they've got to think about performances, they've got to th[…]
[…]e war finished, I was seconded by my regiment to become the Unterhaltungschef of Nordwest Deutsche Rundfunk in Hamburg when we de-Nazified the German radio system. So that was extremely fortunate.We were then evacuated in the week before the war as an entire school from Lewisham to Tunbridge Wells i[…]
[…] and we’re at the flat of John and Daphne Shadwell in Paddington and Roberto Champredanc [ph], this is your life![laughter]Daphne Shadwell, long time radio and television practitioner. Daphne, starting at the beginning – when, where?DS: Well, when I was born, I was born in Wandsworth […]
