[…] change, doing something different. That can be just as relaxing. I mean, I think now the word ‘relax’, like you have on the radio these voices which sound like they’re about to go to sleep telling you to relax, that’s the image we have of ‘relaxing’ now.JR: Yes, that’s a very good point.VM: I don’t[…]
Interview with Esther Rantzen: Transcript of Sample ClipEsther Rantzen: When I joined Radio as a studio manager making sound effects, playing gramophone records, both for music and effects,. It was just after the great days of B.B.C. Radio, which I imagine would have been in the Fifti[…]
[…]t to handle film. So he was working on the AOSB (unclear) film then, do you know, the War Office film and it was all, had all been shot, RG: all sync sound? SE: sync sound - and he just handed it over to me and told me to get on with editing it. So you know, the first bit of real film thing I did, I[…]
[…]s after we got back to London a bomb dropped right opposite and I’m one of those people that didn’t hear the bomb. This apparently does happen. I was soundasleep.SF: You were fast asleep, yes?Didn’t hear the bomb which was only...SF: Was too close....twenty yards away and all the window was blown in[…]
[…]various prints round about the place, and people took negatives from the prints. Of course the stock was quite different in those days, you know, the sound of course is ??... But it was the first film about modern art, and today if anybody wants any sort of stuff about Henry Moore, which they do fro[…]
