[…]over in the south, in the distance, it was like lights all over the place. And we couldn't make out what it was. And the next morning we heard on the radio it was Crystal Palace had been burnt down, which was... And it was a cold night, we could have done with some of that heat there, I can tell you[…]
[…]t was after my demob in 46 that I got my first permanent job which was BBC Radio. Stephen Peet: While you were at school and Keeble College were you a greatmovi[…]
[…]ys in the firing line from the German bombers. They were on their way to London and came over us and we were very much in the firing line. In fact on two occasions I was nearly my family were nearly wiped out. While I was with a flying bomb.SPEAKER: M4That clipped our rooftop dived into the next str[…]
[…]bsp;Yeah, if I may suggest, we move on to the middle of strong Midlands connection with your father. I remember as a kid on listening to the national radio and hearing the niqab interpreter. AfterUnknown Speaker  11:25  leaving the RCMP, he graduated from the air in what you just said.Unkn[…]
[…]uth - I'll always remember the sixteen, because after the sixteen, old Alexander Knott - he owned Bluebirds, and all he was interested in was amateur radio. He used to go to America to join the amateur radios - big factory. So when we got there on the sixteenth there were all these caravans in the y[…]
[…]s just love him.SF: I’m sure.And oh God if only there were more people like him.SF: Wonderful. There’s a whole series of interviews on The BBC, BBC3, Radio Three I suppose, with Joan Bakewell. Now I don’t dislike Joan, she’s a progressive lady and bought things for Vietnam and medical aid exhibition[…]
[…]ege I was … went to the careers office and they suggested me for two basic jobs, and one was a research oficer at Equity and one was a trainee in BBC radio, and I applied for both and got down to the last two of the Equity job, but i was, you know, all I had was an academic degree I had absolutely n[…]
[…] Pennington-Richards: I don't think it was but er... And then I started up various businesses and eventually at the age of seventeen I started a radio business, which was very successful and I made a lot of money. I got a bit bored with it and I had a cousin who was making advertising films and[…]
[…], because I'm read the Hong Kong norm and Panama was the director. Now he was associated with a guy called Melvin Frank. They had made started out in radio shows actually. And they were orientated, particularly Norman, around words rather than visuals, visuals. And Norman found it to be distracting […]
[…]int. And was obviously an imminent candidate for being called up. But in fact, what I was, what happened to me was that I was directed to the mullard radio valve factory in Mitcham. In Surrey, and I spent some months there and then finally was called up and went into REME  Royal electrical and […]
