[…]s time. And when I left Kent College I went back to London and lived with my grandmother and I attended Regent Street Polytechnic and took courses in radio communications because, I�d always been my ambition to get a job in the BBC. The reason being that next door but one to us in Acton lived a rela[…]
[…]re?19No, they were using sight developing. It was whilst I was there we started up, we started up while I was working there making dip tests for, for Radio Luxembourg was it with the, with the early morning and taped news, and the, and the, and the sound tracks were developed then in the early hours[…]
[…]bly.Kay Mander: That's right, well it was because they did nothing - Courtneidge and - well Coutneidge principally - did nothing except listen to the radio all day long while we were shooting.Sidney Cole: Did you meet T. Thornton Feeland's wife, June Clyde?Kay Mander: No, well I never met T. Freelan[…]
[…]tel?John Shirley  33:45  No, no, no. No, just down? Well, I say about three miles from where I was staying. There was aplace where they did radio shows. It was a commercial radio station if you like when I say station. I don't know if they actually broadcast from there. But they certainly […]
[…] to charge batteries and carry batteries around for when they used to have the oldUnknown Speaker  1:42  two two volt batteries for the old radio sporting, yeah, from there, I went up to their headquarters in Fitzroy square.Unknown Speaker  1:51  And there they used to do models,[…]
[…]days I don’t know what it was called – but they seemed to think I should know something about RDF which was the name then given to what is now Radar, Radio Direction Finding, RDF to the Artillery.So I was sent to a training camp at Watchet in Somerset and it was there that I met John Cox who was als[…]
[…]ers and our own tele city and everything there. So basically anything on the sound side I could check internally. And we also had, of course, had the radio division, so I had access to their sound equipment there. So sound was no problem. Camera wise. I mean, I had to depend if there were any questi[…]
[…]m, but to get things and he wants to let me know in a letter that, you know, my contribution to Civilization had been ignored and also cut out of the Radio Times the piece he'd written for the Radio Times. I don't know what he had to say. But it was the actual transmission first transmission was on […]
[…]ditors was a man called Mathew Anallgate(?) - he was a great fastidious dilettante who left actually quite soon afterwards because I think he went to radio newsreel - and, of course, I discovered, it turned out because of Korda and that sort of thing that he had been a film critic ...John Legard:&nb[…]
[…]lly met him at Edinburgh, where they premiered the long Good Friday, and his wife, Susanna capon, was had been a PA at the BBC, and she'd also been a radio producer, and they had decided to to cash in on the launch of Channel Four and and have A an independent company that did educational programs f[…]
