[…] that time, had a studio called Cleveland Hall in Cleveland Street. And it, a great deal of its revenue came from recording daily, the programmes for Radio Luxembourg, and we had people who were famous in those days in the pop music line like... can't think of their names... and Savoy Orpheans, the&[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] think really.What about theatre and so on, I mean, because it’s all wartime so there wasn’t much was there, even the, one’s entertainment was mainly radio of course.We didn’t get to much. I can remember going to, I can remember taking a younger cousin of mine to one of the Ivor Novello things and I[…]
[…]man [Lloyd Williams] who - his energy and imagination founded commercial television, and he ended - was eventually pushed out - and he ended, mending radio sets somewhere, didn't he?John P Hamilton Yes.Joan Kemp-Welch: Another man, [Steven McCormack], was given virtually nothing to do and […]
[…]my name was very well known. And the sort of things happened to me – which were great fun – when Jackie Coogan came over, and I heard somebody on the radio the other day who said they'd named their grandchild Coogan after Jackie Coogan,LW: Brian CloughWT: That's right, and it all brought it back to […]
[…] there, while I was in this camp doing this film, there was an English Medical Officer, a Russian Sergeant Major who had been captured and an English radio operator - we had radio contact with some battalion somewhere. But you see, all of these nationalities, all around - they'd get their own back o[…]
[…]t it the right way and I did it only for fun. I did it too early. Now it's all going on. You've got cassettes on everything to do with sailing on VHF radio, navigation, I did it much too early. The company, I'm still a director of it but my son has it and uses it in conjunction with his and he does […]
[…]rding is vested in the British Entertainment History Project. The name of the interviewee is Madeline Smith; film, television and theatre actress and radio. The interviewer is Mike Dick, and John Luton is on camera. The interview number is seven two two and the date is the 13th of March 2024. Okay, […]
[…]idn't dare do anything unpleasant. So this mystery trip was going to be sent there to try and find out where the German submarines were coming in and radio to destroyers, to outside and tell them, that was what I was supposed to be doing. But of course, they didn't understand us. I said, "If you're […]
