[…]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[…]
[…] There’s a whole series of interviews on The BBC, BBC3, Radio Three I suppose, with Joan Bakewell. Now I don’t […]
[…] and eventually at the age of seventeen I started a radio business, which was very successful and I made a […]
[…]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[…]
[…] Hole er...you know, and he was in charge of the radio...radio side of the BBC. And his chaps came up […]
[…]vening...voluntary...and it takes a lot...awful lot of money...and he said we'd like to give some...prizes, and they sent up half a dozen Motorola er radios for the cars, as a gift, and that was some Swiss[?]. Yeah, they were very good.Alan Lawson: And, do you know, that's the first time I've ever h[…]
[…], 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 […]
