Tuning in…
Tuning in…
Castaway
1 appearance
A businessman and one of Britain's best-known industrialists, used to dealing in millions.
On the island
Eight records
David Lloyd and the Band of the Welsh Guards
I think it'll be very appropriate if I chose a good Welsh tune called March over the Men of Harlech.
one of my earliest memories of being taken to the Sheffield Pantomime where I heard of Miss Florrie Ford singing a song called Obadiah Do.
Jack Teagarden and his Orchestra
a very popular tune called Chinatown by Chinatown, played right at the beginning of the 1914 war.
on my desert island I would like to think back to what I would call my romantic middle age.
I first heard it played by a band in the Esbershaire Garden in Cairo, with a trumpeter away behind a clump of palms, balmy tropical night.
When the war was over, we had several pleasant hours listening to Hors d'Oeuvre and learning how to twinkle.
Noel Coward FantasyFavourite
Noel Card really means a very great deal because he did set an atmosphere of living in the Teen War period.
I'll take Frank Eiffie's version of Don't Blame Me — a tune that was popular around 1930 and now 34 years later it's come back dressed up in this new form.
In conversation
Presenter asks
0:37Could you resign yourself to loneliness and isolation?
Oh, yes, I think so. I'd rather enjoy. [I am] prepared to rest on a desert island, providing it wasn't too long, you know?
Presenter asks
0:54How big a part does music play in your life?
When I was born in North Wales, and my ears were sailed from a very early age. [with] sweet sounds of music. Wales is the land of song. And all through my life music has been a pattern in the thread.
Presenter asks
4:16What was your first ambition to be?
Oh, I wanted to be an engineer. My mother wanted me to go for one of the respectable professions like the church hop. the law or medicine. But my fingers wanted to go into engineering and so I did.
Presenter asks
10:06Why did you leave Lord Nuffield?
Well, I found that making moticurs after the war was a very frustrating job. You couldn't get steel and you couldn't bring out new designs.
The keepsakes
The luxury
a case of highly flavoured toothpaste
there's nothing worse than trying to brush your teeth with sand, I shouldn't.
Presenter asks
13:53Have you any thought or intention of retiring?
No, I wouldn't know what to do if I retired.
“All through my life music has been a pattern in the thread.”
“I prefer to do my fighting, sitting down and standing up.”
“I found that making moticurs after the war was a very frustrating job.”
“I wouldn't know what to do if I retired.”
“There's nothing worse than trying to brush your teeth with sand, I shouldn't.”