[78-L] Help please from UK members

Julian Vein julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk
Thu Oct 4 04:31:43 PDT 2012


On 04/10/12 12:16, Kristjan Saag wrote:
> Hi, Ron,
> Judging from the hits I got from Google Books, David Southwood seems to
> have been involved both in domestic radio production, world broadcasts
> and reports from New York for the BBC in the war years. He might even
> have been head of Outside Broadcasting in later years.
> In order to get more information from those links you'll have to
> purchase the books through Google e-books.
>
> Or try some more people at the BBC. There are guys well over 80 still
> working for the company: Brian Matthew, Desmond Carrington (the latter
> with the BBC since just after the war) and sports commentator Murray
> Walker, who joined BBC in 1949 and even has written about Southwood in
> his self-biography.
> Here are the links I got by searching for
> "david southwood" bbc -astronomical -esa
> (in order to avoid all search hits about astronomer David Southwood...)
> Happy hunting!
> Kristjan
>
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Would "The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom"  (4 
volumes)/by /Asa Briggs, Oxford University Press, 1979 contain anything 
relevant?

      Julian Vein


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