To Salvatore Scifo
thanks for this.
Andrew Roberts
----- Original Message -----
From: "Salvatore Scifo" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, March 08, 2009 1:41 PM
Subject: Re: [BBC-HISTORY] European Service, l941-45
Dear Andrew,
The Radio Journal did also published a tribute to John Gray on Volume 4,
Issue 1, authored by Peter Lewis.
The Guardian obituary is online at
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2007/jan/20/guardianobituaries.radio
You will finds also messages from fellow Radio researchers on the Radio
Studies list at
https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=radio-studies (December
2006/January 2007 archives).
Best Wishes,
Salvo
Beveridge, Robert wrote:
> Try obits in guardian and the herald or email me on
> [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>.
> or phone me at napier
> John worked at bbc after having worked with the gpo film unit
> his first bcast was hogmanay 1940 and he was on duty at bh when it was
> bombed and kept it going via back up shellac records at maida vale I think
> and he was also on duty and listening as part of european service the
> night the american tanks were only 30 miles from prague and had to stop
> due to yalta etc
> he produced and reported on the norwegian navy etc etc during the war and
> then went on to be a liaison officer with the security services , made
> nearly the last lyrical documentary (for bbc scotland ) in early 60s
> west highland and ended up as chief assistan bbc scotland
> helped to found the radio academy and tv festival in edin and very active
> in bectu
> died abt 3 years ago
> i and many others still miss him
> R
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> *From:* The History of the BBC [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Andrew Roberts [[log in to unmask]]
> *Sent:* 07 March 2009 15:34
> *To:* [log in to unmask]
> *Subject:* Re: [BBC-HISTORY] European Service, l941-45
>
> I haven't come across John Gray - what part of the European Service - or
> what else - was he in?
> Andrew Roberts
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Beveridge, Robert <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> *To:* [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> *Sent:* Saturday, March 07, 2009 12:29 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [BBC-HISTORY] European Service, l941-45
>
> He wld have worked with John Gray
> Happy to talk to you abt John’s work
>
> Best wishes robert beveridge edinburgh napier university
>
>
> On 6/3/09 23:10, "Andrew Dunlop Roberts"
> <[log in to unmask]
> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
>
> I am presently studying the work of my father, Michael
> Roberts, in the
> European Service from September 1941 to March l945. Until June
> 1943 he was
> in the Intelligence Department; he was then Clandestine Press
> Editor until
> December 1944,apart from three months (May-August 1944)) as
> Czech Editor.
> For the rest of his time at the BBC he was a European Talks
> Editor. From
> March 1943 until May 1944 he represented the BBC on the
> inter-departmental
> Joint Reoccupation Committee and its sub-committees.
> I would be glad to hear from anyone with an interest in
> these aspects of
> the wartime European Service.
>
>
>
>
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