[…]as based on a play, with very old, but very experienced actors – Jack Hulbert and Cicely Courtneidge, who were at the time very popular, and they did radio, and they did mainly theatre. And erm, the whole thing was just a photographed stage, er, musical really. And above us, the Battle of Britain wa[…]
Interview with Esther Rantzen: Transcript of Sample ClipEsther Rantzen: When I joined Radio as a studio manager making sound effects, playing gramophone records, both for music and effects,. It was just after the great days of B.B.C. Radio, which I imagine would have been in the Fifti[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]was home on a 72 hour pass and I had been to see a Chelsea Arsenal evening kick off match and I came home and my mother said Mr Atlee has been in the radio dear, something about National Service. And I said OK and ignored it. And the next morning I switched on the radio and because of th[…]
[…] three of us. And our routine used to be, at five o'clock in the morning, we would get up and we would listen to 'The Voice of America' on his little radio and then we would listen to the news from Britain, the BBC news, so that was our source of information. And then 'till about nine o'clock we wou[…]
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