[…] luckily you know you're trained and you're told what to do a rate one turn the port and then win the win the air field yes Clearview wingtip another radio one turned aport you're on the downwind keeper 800 feet and win the whole air field disappears under your wing tip another great one start to lo[…]
[…]something. In the mid ‘50s. We never had television until about 1958 – somewhere round there – 57 / 58. MDYou were growing up in the radio era then? BAIt was the radio. We had a big Marconi radio. It was quite a good one, but my father had to put it right on top of […]
[…] presumably the news as well.SPEAKER: M5No we never had the news we weren't allowed to read a newspaper. We weren't allowed. No. In no way. We had no radios in no way where we allowed to know what was happening in the world.SPEAKER: M1So you didn't see any of the traditional newsreels.SPEAKER: M11No[…]
[…]as a bit crap and that. So anyway, so then I just got more and more involved in the Union locally. And then Andy moved into television. I was in radio, don't forget. So then they set up a Radio subdivision committee and a Television subdivision [committee]. So in the radio one would be studio m[…]
[…]times ‘relaxing’ is about change, doing something different. That can be just as relaxing. I mean, I think now the word ‘relax’, like you have on the radio these voices which sound like they’re about to go to sleep telling you to relax, that’s the image we have of ‘relaxing’ now.JR: Yes, that’s a ve[…]
[…]nd, well like most of the ships who went actually, he was sunk, but he was captured, and he finished up a few days later broadcasting for the Italian radio - which didn't go down very well. So, that was the only time they actually stopped us going, but otherwise I used to ignore the Fleet Press Liai[…]
[…]ing at all or training for later life? Er you know before you started work?Dallas Bower 01:35No none whatsoever. My interest in radio was sparked off at Hurst by a senior boy who was given permission to work on a small valve set, which in those days of course was something very[…]
[…]ery early Steptoes. No actually maybe I'm wrong about this maybe it was 2” Quad tape because one could see it was obviously 405 and in the Radio Times it said it had been restored by the BFI. So some, thought to be lost, so maybe it was on tape and someone found the tape. What?Rodney Gies[…]
[…], you know, it ain't the biggest crime in the world and I said, but people do take a fairly poor view of people who listen in to ambulance/police via radio. Funnily enough old Sydney who was still alive was at this lunch that Dorothy gave two or three years ago. I didn't bring the subject up again b[…]
[…] canRoy Fowler 12:33 you remember an oval team commercial? What was in it? My recollection of pre war oval team was the old teenagers and radio Luxembourg? Was it that sort of thing? No,Speaker 2 12:45 that's a bit of a title. They they all had to have. They're all they're al[…]
