Tuning in…
Tuning in…
Castaway
1 appearance
BBC's first war correspondent; known for commentaries including the Coronation and programmes such as 20 Questions and Down Your Way.
On the island
Eight records
The keepsakes
The luxury
Not recorded.
In conversation
Presenter asks
0:08What was your ambition? What did you want to be?
Well originally I wanted to be a surgeon. I would still like to be a surgeon, but I haven't got the time left to do it.
Presenter asks
1:33What was the very first broadcast you did?
Uh it was an interview with a cow.
Presenter asks
4:55Which do you look back on as the trickiest of all the broadcast assignments you've done?
Well, uh the trickiest idea of all uh was the marriage of Prince Rainier and Grace Kelly and Monaco, if you remember it. … I had to fill in for 37 minutes without any communication with the producer. So he didn't know what I was going to say and I didn't know what pictures he was going to show. And I wondered how long any human being could go on waffling.
“Well originally I wanted to be a surgeon. I would still like to be a surgeon, but I haven't got the time left to do it.”
“I never got a single picture.”
“I pinched a knife and a fork and a spoon of his, which I've got at home now with his initials on the handle. When anybody comes to dinner I don't like, I give them the spoon to eat the soup with.”
“I had to fill in for 37 minutes without any communication with the producer. So he didn't know what I was going to say and I didn't know what pictures he was going to show. And I wondered how long any human being could go on waffling.”