[…] somehow. The was a half reasonable excuse. They were saying this is so realistic, that the effect could be like the notorious War of the Worlds, the radio show that Orson Welles produced and people were committing suicide because they were actually Martians coming down there Main Street. Obviously […]
[…]erations and they put me in to Communications for some reason despite the fact that I had no particular training in Communications! Communications is radio links, which, at that time, was the way of getting signals back to the studios. And routing various signals about the country. Glasgow was the m[…]
[…] somehow. The was a half reasonable excuse. They were saying this is so realistic, that the effect could be like the notorious War of the Worlds, the radio show that Orson Welles produced and people were committing suicide because they were actually Martians coming down there Main Street. Obviously […]
[…] the local film studios tomorrow" - which was Lime Grove, Shepherd's Bush - "and see what chances there are for a young man? When you leave school in two or three year's time maybe there's something you can do in films, who knows?" So the following day, at fourteen years old, I went strolling down t[…]
[…]ational came up said look, we want you to take the job. And I hadn't as yet heard back from the BBC. And unbeknown to me my brother, who was in sound radio, had been since the war was from 1938. It was he had applied for the job. And of course on the notice board was just assistant sound recorders s[…]
[…]r raid shelters. And I was worked there on a Sunday, on the day war was declared. And I came out, and I saw and listened to one of the first portable radios. Alexander Korda had it, and June the prey, the actress was there, and one of two others, and we went out near the powerhouse, out in the open […]
[…]logy?David Attenborough: No, this was whatever came along, it was just educational publishing. And then I saw a job advertised in the Times for sound radio as a talks producer and I thought I don't know, I mean I suppose it's the same kind of thing as thinking up ideas for books only it's probably q[…]
[…]t to live within it. And at that time of course there was less problems; there was no inflation and we had a rising income all the time, we went from radio to television, from television to colour television and there was always a rising income and the BBC was very well off. In fact, the government […]
[…]t from factory to factory, I was either sacked or I left. And by that time I suppose, by the time I was getting near 17, 16½, 17, I heard jazz on the radio, Louis Armstrong and things, and this was a revelation to me. And also my early culture was the cinema. It really was the cinema. I didn't go to[…]
[…]ople that you worked with? I worked at France Sewell? And I worked for a time of course on the Charles Gibbons? and the Savoy Hotel fields used to do Radio luxenberg programmes. That was really the main I think the main income, I think it was, I think there were there all the time, every week, and t[…]
