[78-L] Help please from UK members

[Kristjan Saag]

Oh, I forgot the link to Google Books:

https://www.google.se/search?q=david+southwood%22+bbc+-astronomical+-esa&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:sv-SE:official&client=firefox-a#hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=dqU&rls=org.mozilla:sv-SE%3Aofficial&prmdo=1&tbm=bks&sclient=psy-ab&q=%22david+southwood%22+bbc+-astronomical+-esa&oq=%22david+southwood%22+bbc+-astronomical+-esa&gs_l=serp.12...7251.7251.1.8668.1.1.0.0.0.0.54.54.1.1.0...0.0...1c.1.5G5MTRCfa1g&pbx=1&prmdo=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&fp=d87293ab2bc9ae8b&biw=1024&bih=586

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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