Ronald Grant

[…]t of well. There's a numberSpeaker 1  27:52  of genres if you like, for example, there were all these detectives, many from either books or radio series, mainly in the States. There was a few British but Bulldog Drummond and so on, but they were often made in Hollywood anyway. It was all t[…]

Sheelagh Rees

[…]s, she was. And then we had Val Gielgud who worked mainly from Broadcasting House but came down twice a week.[40:18]He still had his connections with radio?Oh yes, yes.That was his main job?Yes, yes. I don’t know what Michael was doing at this point, had he gone to directing?Michael Barry?Yes. Where[…]

Peter Dimmock

[…]p; But I used to get Richard for 5 guineas and 10 guineas, and I said, “Richard, but you can earn 40 guineas” because he was very well established in radio.  “Ah, my boy” he said, “Television is the medium of the future and I am going to be the best commentator in television.” And he was very f[…]

John Aldred

[…]uld be highly delighted. Miniature lapel microphones appeared which could be concealed but they're not usually as good as having a proper microphone. Radio mikes are of course very popular but they cannot always be relied upon. So really these improvements fall into several areas.Peter Musgrave: Do […]

John Aldred

[…] they're not usually as good as having a proper microphone. Radio mikes are of course very popular but they cannot […]

Reg Sutton

[…]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[…]

Reg Sutton

[…] and I attended Regent Street Polytechnic and took courses in radio communications because, I�d always been my ambition to get […]

Ted Hallows

[…] 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,[…]

Alf Cooper

[…]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[…]
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