Joe Mendoza

[…] The only thing I remember about him was that gently rang me up with this opportunity to work a GPL formula. I was doing a course on training to be a radio operator for the merchant navy, getting ready to be in the war. This was January 1940. And are you right? Or am I okay? And so a very good frien[…]

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[…]

Cyril Crowhurst

[…]e and said ‘All right, if you want to go out and get a job, get a job, but what do you want to do?’  By this time, I had been very interested in radio, made a little crystal set and that sort of thing which one could expect in those days.  And said ‘All right, well I think I know somebody […]

Interview

[…]Essex where Essex had a fabulous technical infrastructure of three telephone exchanges for a phone for each students' residence, they had a broadcast radio studio which was designed to BBC standards with PPMs with Janet Fields with all the bits you would expect to find in an actual broadcast studio.[…]

Carol Owens

[…] reporting to the Director of Finance and I.T. Rodney Baker Bates with sponsorship from Managing Director Television Will Wyatt and Managing Director Radio, I can’t remember who who that was at the time but the the issue there was that they didn't want it to be another big initiative like Producer C[…]

Jill Balcon (Day-Lewis)

[…]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[…]

Graham Hartstone

[…] Parade. Not far away, just outside the stadium. Anyway, so we put personal mics on Alec Kunis and George Segal. And they weren't though the we tried radios. We tried everything we could with radios, but there was just so much RF around in Berlin in 1966, that it was useless. So we wound up running […]

Gerry Humphreys

[…]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[…]

Cedric Dawe

[…]the Triffid’ which was a bit of a romp?C. D. Another big picture at Shepperton. Mainly of course with the Special Effects, who made all the Triffids, radio controlled. It was the most remarkable set we built. In the story 'The Day of the Triffids’ the whole world goes blind except one or two people […]

Charlotte Jennings

[…]atoes and cabbages and lettuces. So that he must have come down some sometimes not at the weekend. Because I remember very clearly sitting around the radio and listening with him and splitting with after over eight rounds. Itma  went out Thursday.Alan Lawson  27:10  Do you kno w  […]
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