Peggy Hyde-Chambers (nee Rignold)

[…] ‘Oh’ I said ‘perhaps it’s your heart’. And he said ‘No, I know indigestion when I’ve got it’, and he said would I go and get a book, it was the, the Radio Doctor’s book.Oh yes.And he loved the Radio, everything he used to go to the Radio Doctor’s book. So Iwent up to get this book and I couldn’t fi[…]

Christine Collins

[…]something like that, wecame down about seven o’clock, we came downstairs from where we were dubbing and we had, we didn’t have a television, we had a radio which used to be a radio and television, so we could get television sound but we hadn’t got television picture. Anyway, we turned the sound[…]

John Allen

[…]hat one left at that age in order to grow up and start work and earn some money. I my first job was. At Maidenhead and it was with and Emma Stone the radio and lighting people I it was you remember they're there to change jobs.SPEAKER: F11Yes. Yeah yeah yeah.SPEAKER: F9I worked there for a very shor[…]

Ella Mallet

[…]rse the two evening shows you see, with a break between. But the feature film was not as long as they are today but the news of course - there was no radio. The public relied on it. Scraps of reel. And anyway, the news and the travel picture, was more than valued. You see they go out now. But many o[…]

Peter Ansorge

[…]English regents drama consists was based in Birmingham at Pebble mill. And it consisted, at first just a one producer. And as it expanded, there were two or three producers working there, and two or three script editors. And the brief was actually to present new work by new new writers. But the only[…]

Jill Craigie

[…]es. So you were not competing materialistically with anyone at all, and you didn't have to keep up appearances. So what happened? You listened to the radio, and you had discussions about Joad and Priestley, and these people who were arguing all for socialism. You listened to music, and you discussed[…]

Sarah Erulkar (de Normanville)

[…]of military, American military still there. A lot of nastiness still, I mean the police would sort of set about with sticks on a kid who had a little radio he was holding to his ear, you know, insisting that he was listening in to their messages. And I went with Dougie Ransom andDouglas Williams, Do[…]
Scroll to Top