Julia Cave

[…]to say one very likely, very likely, anyway it was a dragon type with our hats. Anyway, I got in and they sent me off to an engineering department in radio and of course I was pretty flummoxed.Norman Swallow:  Was that at Broadcasting House?Julia Cave: It was; no, it was Egton or somewhere, it […]

Jan Zilliacus

[…]ed up alas in, in Kazakhstan in the Soviet Union.Oh did she?Many years, but she came out of it, she’s okay.Is she back here now?Yes, she did a lovely radio interview a few days ago.Oh dear I haven’t heard it.On one of these, well one of these local radio stations.Oh I see.And Kathleen Taylor’s a lar[…]

Ted Candy

[…] life and yours as well. Bateman was who he was, an accountant, a chartered accountant, who worked for the rank organization at the beginning. He ran Radio Pictures. He was the secretary, charter Secretary Radio Pictures. And he was, he had three big film companies to run. He was the secretary, touc[…]

John Shearman

[…]ve a proper dubbing facility out there at that did you have a recording facility out there? Yes, we did, mainly on quarter inch tape, because Baghdad radio had two of those huge old EMI machines, and we did quite a lot on those, and we had our own no they were not Narcos, but the equivalent slip tap[…]

Harry Coventry

[…]ndon with a Cable and Wireless company making telephone cable, basically. But I we had no, no hook up with with BBC, we listen to it. Listen to it on radio every, every day, basically. And when I was three and a half, the war started and and that part of London, they decided, in all the children had[…]

Jim Whittell

[…]bsp;      JIM WHITTELL:  No, because it’s digital, and digital reproduction – I don’t know whether you’ve got a digital radio?  It never fades, it’s always spot on the signal, same for the screen.  Now volume, it may well be part of the programming to say that[…]

Ted (Robert Edward) Newman

[…]t was a very high class setup. I was a huge thing when I went down to see him and he said every 20 minutes we're getting a buzzing sound on the on my radio, and he says I worked on the recording morning departure. And he says I automatically connected with changeovers. Now he was when he wasn't far […]

Donald Wilson

[…]n cinema as a child, Donald Wilson  1:32we had a touring cinema which came around to our town hall. And it was one of the because we had no radio no known, nothing else. And we used to go down the hill family office used to go down and we saw the westerns and pedal bikes and all those thin[…]

Godfrey Jennison

[…]ead by now. And. Politically unreliable. They said that this meant Europe or the US is and we can offer you a job running manager or whatever the new radio station. So we you know we're about show business.SPEAKER: F8And so is a show on the show. There is one snag is that in our current form the onl[…]
Scroll to Top