[…]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[…]
[…]t song also appeared to bring contented smiles to their faces! At one stage in the afternoon of the day of the Premiere we had a foyer full of press, radio, a replica plane and TV cameras recording interviews when in walked Ted’s Regional Manager David Williams. He cornered me and asked what was goi[…]
[…] I was interested in sound and I built a shortwave radio, the usual things a boy does, and so my […]
[…]ncensored, and it was on the screens at length. Ronnie then had the great nous to link up with Rene Cutforth. Rene was there as the BBC’s radio reporter and they were briefed to get together. Now here were two massive personalities, Ronnie Noble and Rene Cutforth, and of course at […]
[…]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[…]
[…]o everybody as Pussy.
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There was a radio programme not so long ago with, in which your cousin would have – one of J Arthur’s daughters spoke about...
Oh. Oh Shelah, Shelagh wasn’t it[…]
[…]rs and years and years it was all shot by usAnd we geared ourselves to provide the specialist equipment that was needed. I can remember introducing a radio mike to Candid Camera (yes, yes) for the first time. Didn’t work very well but never the less (laughter) it was a big step forward (laughter) be[…]
[…]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 […]
[…] 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[…]
[…]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[…]
