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Anne V Coates Roy Fowler
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Yes probably. But not, not... I mean only just up in Yorkshire where we come from. I, I just visited where, just last year actually, where my grandfather was born. Because it was a row of quite small cot[…]
[…] We were told that originally we would goon the Air in the first week of April, we had two transmitters, Winter J Hill in Lancashire and EmlynMoor in Yorkshire. About February the news broke and Emlyn Moore wasn't going to be ready, wewould have to open only with Winter J. Hill so of course we screa[…]
[…] transmitters, Winter J Hill in Lancashire and Emlyn Moor in Yorkshire. About February the news broke and Emlyn Moore wasn't […]
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[…]n't have it [so] had to do six months so I was made second in command of a squadron in the tank training regiment09:00up on Wakeworth Moor [?] on the Yorkshire Moors we had that winter 1946/47 we were cut off. Well anyway as they say in The Goon Show this is where the story really starts. I’m demobb[…]
[…], I wasn't operational, I ran between the Guildhall where Michael Roberts did sound, to the Guildhall where David did sound. In between came various ATV bits in Wood Green, like the variety show that night. But I was around. There was a terrible thunderstorm. But the first programme that went out li[…]
[…]y, that was true in the past, and I think it's still true in some areas.Keith Ewart 15:45 Certainly. I mean, we have had an example where Yorkshire Television, yes, sent down a whole they were going to do a program here, and sent down a number of people to see it. I thought they were Mot[…]
[…]views a year or so ago and itwent down very well. Largely because he was a Yorkshire man, and one of thepoints I should make that television in terms of it's&nb[…]
[…]dea was, some bright spark at Aeolean Hall had devised a show that would end, would replace the Billy Cotton Band Show, which was like roast beef and Yorkshire pudding on Sunday, wakey, wakey. We did 16 weeks while Billy had a holiday and then came back and went on forever. I mean anyone who thougjt[…]
