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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[…]

[…]e had three identical costumes in case anything was spilled on it and we didn’t want hold ups. It was a scene of a court ball and there was Larry, in uniform, with his hair parted in the middle, than which nothing is less attractive. It didn’t even give him a very good period aspect, you could have […]

[…]st tapeSo I came out of the RAF and there was lots of work about then, this was 56, I had just missed doing the Queen’s year, I had just got out when Suez started and one of the blokes at the demob site said to me ‘don’t leave and don’t come back. He said ‘ just keep out of the way’.  I suppose[…]