Norman Spencer

[…]e telling me the trouble he had with him. But he be he produced a satisfactory schmaltzy sort of visuals. Yes. Which became it was played a lot on it radio played two and three. And ifTeddy Davis  34:31  you stop me just for a second, can you Dave, can you stop it just for a second?Norman […]

Lois Singer

[…]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[…]

Sheelagh Rees

[…]s, she was. And then we had Val Gielgud who worked mainly from Broadcasting House but came down twice a week.[40:18]He still had his connections with radio?Oh yes, yes.That was his main job?Yes, yes. I don’t know what Michael was doing at this point, had he gone to directing?Michael Barry?Yes. Where[…]

Pete Murray

[…]  The copyright of this recording is vested in the British Entertainment History Project.  The name of the interviewee is Pete Murray, OBE, radio DJ, TV presenter, stage, screen and TV actor.  The date is 10 May 2016.  This is Interview No. 684 and my name is Mike Dick.  OK […]

David Elstein

[…]on ring-main, HoD thought it terrific, whole series was commissioned, but I didn’t get Producer job because “thought to be to young”. 23 at the time. Radio producer recruited instead. I resigned from BBC. 31.53 -              &nbs[…]

Roy Fowler

[…]ery early Steptoes.  No actually maybe I'm wrong about this maybe it was 2” Quad tape because one could see it was obviously 405 and in the Radio Times it said it had been restored by the BFI. So some, thought to be lost, so maybe it was on tape and someone found the tape. What?Rodney Gies[…]

Chili (Dorothy) Bouchier

[…]g on around the forty-ish markCB: Yes, yes. She was a lovely lady. Really warm, lovely, beautiful person. But it was only later, when she did all the radio stuff, that she became very famous in England, wasn’t it?I: YesCB: With her husband, yesI: They stayed during the war which I think...CB: That’s[…]

Aida Young (nee Cohen)

[…]t to be married, so that everybody would lust after her, right?  But she was married, and she had two kids, and in fact last week I heard on the radio that the daughter is now in films.  She had a little boy and a little girl, and so the husband and the two kids were in one hotel and Rache[…]

Harry Coventry

[…]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[…]
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