On a slightly wireless related note, when I was a student in Germany in 1967 I became friends with Alvar Lidell's daughter, Lucy. She took me home to meet her folks, and what nice folks they were. Alvar was announcing on Radio 3 at the time, having given up reading the news on the Home Service some years earlier. He had a passion for classical music and after Sunday lunch the whole family picked up instruments and played together. I left my guitar in its case.

Hi Terry, I noted your comment about having had 2 postings rejected as Spam on this particular thread. I have had a similar experience, again with 2 postings, on the 'Ancestry' thread posted by Brian Moate. Exasperating!! I wonder if anyone else has had the same problem? David

Years at KBGS e.g. 1958-1964 (optional) 1945-50

Current location (optional) Keighley(still)

A certain English teacher used to publish "The Muse", a poetry anthology every so often and one of these found its way onto the Wireless. I remember receiving a postal order from the B.B.C.for about five shillings for broadcasting my poem in the "Muse"

Years at KBGS e.g. 1958-1964 (optional) 1959-66

Current location (optional) HAWORTH

Thanks, David and Allan, for your sympathy.

It is the loss of your gem (ie rare recollection) that grieves - especially if you can't remember what it was about. I think the solution might be to draft the "original" in Word; copy it; then paste it into the Forum. Then if owt untoward happens, you still have the draft to fall back on.

I think maybe the problem is in failing eyes getting past the "Please type the letters you see (?)" bit.

Years at KBGS e.g. 1958-1964 (optional) 1952-60

Current location (optional) Nirvana

Alvar Lidell! Wow, there is a name from the past. For us at the time, he was THE voice on the radio at the end of the war. Maybe earlier too I suppose but seeing as I was 9 at the end of the war that was about the time I remember him from. For years though I thought his name was Alvarli Dell.Haha. Happy memories. Cheers.

Years at KBGS e.g. 1958-1964 (optional) 1947-51

Current location (optional) Auckland, New Zealand

What a wonderful experience, Allan. To wartimers and immediately afterers, his voice was the voice of our side that told the truth (?).

http://www.wimbledonguardian.co.uk/heritage/news/10135731.This_is_the_news___with_Alvar_Lidell/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs/castaway/a40e0404

Years at KBGS e.g. 1958-1964 (optional) 1952-60

Current location (optional) Nirvana

Like Bill, I had the name wrong. I thought it was Al Varley-Dell.

Years at KBGS e.g. 1958-1964 (optional) 1958-65

Current location (optional) Leeds

If no-one believes Ackers about CT then all they have to do is see her 'signed'(?) photograph in Geoff Walbank's barber's shop in Silsden.

Years at KBGS e.g. 1958-1964 (optional) 1959-66

Current location (optional) Shoreham-by-Seaj

In the light of the subsequent postings - maybe I should have confessed that I alternatively turned in ov a Sunday neet with David Jacobs.
That should take some of the steam out of the issue and leave the Poor Clares to their usual contemplative mode.

Years at KBGS e.g. 1958-1964 (optional) 1952-60

Current location (optional) Nirvana

Jacobs was a consummate broadcaster. Another disc-spinner whom no-one remembers much now was Jack Jackson, a pioneer in cutting comedy snippets and other sound clips into his record shows. Previously a jazz trumpeter and band leader, he became better known as a DJ in the fifties and sixties.