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WHEN JULIO INGLESIAS SIGNED WITH CBS RECORDS
Julio Inglesias was a well-known singer in Europe and South America, but hardly known in Britain and North America. When CBS heard him sing "Begin the Beguine" they wanted to sign him straight away. But their efforts were nearly thwarted by the man from the Dutch Antilles!
SHAKIN' STEVENS AND THE KANGAROO
In I980 Paul Russell was running CBS in Australia when Shakin' Stevens was on a nationwide tour. The record was number one, the tour was sold out, and everything was going well. Except that "Shaky" was very keen to have his picture taken with a kangaroo. Hmmm.....
NEAR MISS CRASH IN TIGER MOTH
former British Army officer John Elliott talks about learning to fly a Tiger Moth aircraft and a near fatal crash.
GROWING UP IN INDIA, BELGIUM AND GREECE
Now aged 92, Fay was born in pre-Independence India, where her father built an unusual type of rickshaw. She was shipped off to school in a convent in Belgium where, she says, she learned nothing useful. Then she went to Greece for a year "to swim" before returning to India and meeting the man she would marry.
GETTING ARRESTED IN NIGERIA
In 1984, the Johnson Matthey Bank collapsed, partly due to fraudulent loans to a man called Abdul Shamji. Shamji was a major donor to the Tory party and so ITV's World In Action programme started looking into his background, Their investigations took them to Nigeria, and some very nasty moments with the military.......
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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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