Ronald Neame

[…]here's one other absolutely stunning scene, which is very theatrical. But it works marvelously in film, which is when reg is killed. Oh, yes. And the radio is playing and the camera just flops around slowly. That Ronald Neame  1:18:35  was that was my idea. And I'll bet you […]

David Robson

[…] ordinary, sort of full-wave rectifiers that you find in a radio station, banks of them. And so all you had […]

David Robson

[…]nly started getting interested in television. I used to buy Cans[?] comics, a sort of a technical paper, a technical book for people building amateur radios and stuff like that. And this was the time when the BBC were transmitting 30 line TV on long-wave I think, and medium-wave.Alan Lawson: Yes.Dav[…]

Patrick (Paddy) Carey

[…]5  my mother was an actress and I think we joined her in front of our microphone at the age of 10. And the children's our broadcast, television, radio. My mother acted with the W Gate Theatre. She had acted with William poor who was either a pioneer in Shakespeare production in EnglandJohn Tayl[…]

Dudley Lovell

[…] was May the eighth 1945. And wiki lady was around about the same time. And then after we could lady, I got one or two jobs sort of fill in operator, radio bush. And most of the time we own permanent on the permanent staff. They're not at the other permanent staff. There's no written contract, but w[…]

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[…]

Val Guest

[…]ir heart.VG: They did indeed; Miss London Ltd was a big success. I had him singing and dancing and everything in that.RF: Bandwaggon was based on the radio show.VG: I had very little to do with that, I drafted a script and polished a final script but I was really doing my fire training then, that wa[…]

Daphne Shadwell

[…] and we’re at the flat of John and Daphne Shadwell in Paddington and Roberto Champredanc [ph], this is your life![laughter]Daphne Shadwell, long time radio and television practitioner. Daphne, starting at the beginning – when, where?DS: Well, when I was born, I was born in Wandsworth […]

Yvonne Littlewood

[…]u want to do. And I thought that somehow the BBC was associated with music and the Arts and I suppose...Mm.I must have got this from listening to the radio. And so I wrote and they said I could go up for an interview and I, because I'd done Shorthand and Typing at school and they said ‘Okay’. So up […]
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