Harry Fowler

[…]. Well I was doing these clubs. Now one of the clubs was frequented by journalists -I didn’t know it at the time – and reporters at the BBC which was radio in those days. And I went in with my papers as I did once a day, shouting out “Germans in Berlin, Star paper” and a man behind the bar said “The[…]

Dicky Leeman

[…]over in the south, in the distance, it was like lights all over the place. And we couldn't make out what it was. And the next morning we heard on the radio it was Crystal Palace had been burnt down, which was... And it was a cold night, we could have done with some of that heat there, I can tell you[…]

Cyril Pennington-Richards

[…] Pennington-Richards: I don't think it was but er... And then I started up various businesses and eventually at the age of seventeen I started a radio business, which was very successful and I made a lot of money. I got a bit bored with it and I had a cousin who was making advertising films and[…]

Cyril Pennington

[…] and eventually at the age of seventeen I started a radio business, which was very successful and I made a […]

Gerard "Gerry" Anthony Morrissey

[…]as a bit crap and that. So anyway, so then I just got more and more involved in the Union locally. And then Andy moved into television. I was in radio, don't forget. So then they set up a Radio subdivision committee and a Television subdivision [committee]. So in the radio one would be studio m[…]

Winston (Wyn) Ryder

[…]l over, Berlin, coming back with tapes, quarter inch tapes of the Blue Danube, etc. And his wife had heard something on the Third Programme, [now BBC Radio 3] this [György] Ligeti thing, this strange noise theyused for the obelisk cube, and there was in great letters across it not to be removed from[…]

Waris Hussein

[…]leaned up again and become very expensive. But when we lived there, it was basic. And we somehow made do. I used to hide in the cupboard, which had a radio above it, it was already inbuilt. And I used to listen to all the radio programmes. And I, to this day, remember, things like "Much Binding in t[…]

Joe McGrath

[…]mmes - um - and then Edward Barnes - um - um01:27:30JOE: I think it was Monica SimmsQ: Yeah probably she went on to be - Controller of Channel - um - Radio Four and all sorts01:27:36JOE: I think it - yeah I think it was her - she had written it more or less - and produced it as wellQ: Oh no - no she[…]

Ann Turner

[…]m, but to get things and he wants to let me know in a letter that, you know, my contribution to Civilization had been ignored and also cut out of the Radio Times the piece he'd written for the Radio Times. I don't know what he had to say. But it was the actual transmission first transmission was on […]
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