[78-L] Help please from UK members

Kristjan Saag saag at telia.com
Thu Oct 4 05:10:53 PDT 2012


David Southwood seems to have left BBC for ABC (a forerunner to 
independent UK TV company ITV) in 1957. It's there he became head of 
Outside Broadcasting.
Here's more about his work there, including a photo.
http://www.78rpm.co.uk/tvu.htm#abc
Kristjan


On 2012-10-04 13:16, 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
>
>
>
>
> On 2012-10-04 04:45, Ron L'Herault wrote:
>> I recently digitized a recording made during WWII in England.   It was done
>> for an American, Lieutenant Hayes, by a recently made friend, David
>> Southwood, a British soldier and employed (before, during, after?) the war.
>> They scripted the 12" lacquer with music in and out, an intro by Southwood,
>> greetings by Hayes, with a Christmas message to his family.  They included a
>> report on bombing with what sounded like an on-the-scene air raid report,
>> gave closing remarks and signed off with music.   Lieutenant Hayes sent the
>> disk home to his family and was unfortunately killed before Christmas.   My
>> question:  What do we know about David Southwood.  Did he survive, and did
>> he go back to the BBC after the war?  Is he by any chance still alive?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Ron L'Herault
>>
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