Videos posted by Stuart Prebble
Watching Hitler drive past in a motorcade
Raymond was growing up in Gdansk (Danzig)which was an independent state on the borders of Germany but 98% of whose population was German. One day the crowds gathered to welcome a motorcade carrying Adolf Hitler. Raymond didn't know it at the time, but he was probably witnessing part of the event which caused the declaration of World War 2 - the invasion of Poland.
AL MURRAY TELLS WHY HE IS HOOKED ON HISTORY AND WHY HE IS SUPPORTING STORYVAULT
Al Murray is best known as "the pub landlord" but what is less well known is that he is a graduate in Modern History from Oxford who has been fascinated by history his whole life. Here he tells why, and why he thinks oral history is so important.
GETTING STARTED IN COMEDY AND THE ORIGINS OF "THE PUB LANDLORD"
Best known for his stand-up act, "The Pub Landlord", comedian Al Murray could scarcely be more different from his comic persona. Here he tells how he got into comedy in the first place, and how "The Pub Landlord" was invented.
HOW CBS REWARDED THE MAN WHO GOT THEM THE MOSCOW OLYMPICS
When CBS Television was fighting rivals ABC and NBC to screen the Moscow Olympics, they asked CBS Records boss Walter Yetnikoff to go to Russia to do the deal. Yetnikoff didn't want to go, but CBS boss Bill Paley offered him a special reward if he was successful. Walter pulled it off, but his reward wasn't what Walter had in mind.......
WHEN THE ROLLING STONES SIGNED TO CBS
When the Rolling Stones signed for CBS records it was a big occasion for everyone. Everything was lined up for a huge celebratory dinner in Paris - and all was going well until the CBS man grabbed the Rolling Stones man by the lapels...... (NB a little bit of bad language was involved!)
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JAPANESE PRISONER OF WAR Prison guards
John Baxter was captured by the Japanese in 1942 and held first on Java. He was then transported to a camp on mainland Japan near Kyushu a coal mining area. Here he describes life in the camp - and ho
London being bombed during WW2
Bill Avis talks about bombs falling on London during the Second World War, collecting shrapnel, and picking up something and taking it home that was more dangerous than he thought!
BOMB EXPLODES ON HMS ANTELOPE Part 2 Falklands War
On May 23rd 1982 Warrant Officer John Phillips and his colleague Staff Sergeant James Prescott were called to HMS Antelope to defuse two 1,100 pound (500 kg) bombs...when one exploded.... In his e
LIFE IN LONDON DURING THE BLITZ
Now 91 years old, Fay lived in Woolwich Arsenal during part of the war, and tells how she went shopping during air-raids, but came to fear the arrival of the "doodle-bugs".
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ATOMIC BOMBING OF NAGASAKI Part 1
John Baxter was captured by the Japanese in 1942 and held first on Java. He was then transported to a camp on mainland Japan near Kyushu a coal mining area. Here he describes the moment the atomic bom
FLOODED FLEETWOOD
About a flood that happened in Fleetwood.
Earliest memory of World's Oldest man
Henry William Allingham was born on 6th June 1896 and, at the time he gave this interview, was a supercentenarian, World War I veteran and at the age of 113 years and 13 days, the oldest living man
Friendship
How a best friend is the difference between coping and not coping with life's more challenging, random and unexpected moments.
London during WW2
My Granny describes what life was like during the war in London. Social life still went on for many.
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