BBC Jimmy Savile legacy “what goes around comes around”
“Who did Jim fix IT for?” more strangely who was “Uncle Mac” fixing it for?
Uncle Mac explained -- http://middlesbrough-council.com/forum/ ... =753#p4741
Both it seems had friends in high places…..
SPIES LIES POWER POVERTY
Toytown was a BBC radio series for children, based around a set of puppets created by SG Hulme Beaman broadcast for Children's Hour which ran from 5-6pm on the Home Service.
There were also some short films made during the 1970s which were broadcast on ITV.
The series starred Larry the Lamb[5] ("I do my little be-e-est") the perpetually inquisitive ovine central character and his eternally clever canine sidekick, Dennis the Dachshund, a German sausage dog.
In each story a misunderstanding, often arising from a device created by the inventor, Mr. Inventor, occurs which involves the officious Ernest the Policeman the perpetually disgruntled Mr Grouser the Grocer and the narcissistic Mayor.
The pool of stories was re-used until the end of Children's Hour. Larry the Lamb was always played (at least when broadcast from London) by Derek McCulloch
Dennis at various times by Norman Shelley Ernest Jay and Preston Lockwood the Mayor by Franklyn Bellamy and Felix Felton Ernest the Policeman by Arthur Wynn, Peter Claughton and Stephen Jack and the Inventor usually by Ivan Samson.
Arthur Henry Ashford Wynn (22 January 1910 – 24 September 2001)
British civil servant, social researcher, and recruiter of Soviet spies.
Recruited by Edith Tudor-Hart in 1936, Wynn was the well known Soviet spy "Agent Scott" of the KGB.
Wynn created the less prominent Oxford spy ring, the University of Oxford counterpart to the infamous Cambridge Five.
Wynn was the son of a professor of medicine. Educated at Oundle School, he played rugby union.
Wynn read natural sciences and mathematics at Trinity College, University of Cambridge.
Wynn was in Germany when Adolf Hitler became Chancellor.
He resultantly married German communist Lieschen Ostrowski, to enable her to escape Nazi Germany.
He returned to England, dissolved his marriage, and moved to Oxford for further study.
While at the University of Oxford he joined the Clarendon Club, and met and married Peggy Moxon, a student and a fellow member of the Communist Party of Great Britain.
They married in 1938, and had four children (three sons and a daughter).
In the following year, Arthur and Peggy Wynn wrote a study of the financial connections of the Conservative establishment which they published as "Tory M.P."
It was published in the USA as "England's Money Lords"; the Winns published under the pseudonym 'Simon Haxey'.
Intending to specialise in trade union in partnership with Sir Stafford Cripps QC, Wynn studied law at Lincoln's Inn, and was called to the bar in 1939.
During World War II, Wynn worked as a technical specialist on secondment at A.C. Cossor, working on projects that include IFF radar and advanced navigational aids for RAF Bomber Command.
Moved by a series of appalling postwar coal mining disasters, he switched his attention to mining safety.
After the nationalisation of the coal industry in 1948, Wynn became director of mining safety research at the Ministry of Fuel and Power.
He was the National Coal Board's scientific member from 1955–65, and then a senior civil servant in Tony Benn's Ministry of Technology until his retirement in 1971.
Post retirement, with his wife he become a prominent medical researcher and social commentator, particularly in the area of nutrition.
Their papers were widely published and read, and used by many politicians to advance their own political agenda.
Through their publications, the Wynns struck up a friendship with Tory MP Peter Bottomley.
Tory leadership hopeful Keith Joseph based a 1975 speech on their published article for the Child Poverty Action Group examining the issue of poverty and single parenthood.
Joseph's interpretation of the article lost him the support of Margaret Thatcher, who decided to run for the leadership herself.
Arthur Wynn died in London in 2001.
Norman Shelley (16 February 1903 – 22 August 1980)
Churchill impersonation
A recurring rumour holds that some of Winston Churchill's most famous speeches to Parliament during World War II
were subsequently recorded for radio broadcast (the House of Commons not being at the time set up for location recording)
not by Churchill, but by Shelley impersonating Churchill.
The rumour has been promoted by David Irving to support his unflattering view of Churchill;
it is difficult to prove or disprove Irving's claims.
Analysis of voice patterns in 20 of Churchill's recorded speeches show that three made in May and June 1940 do not match those provably by him, although Churchill might have recorded them after his voice had changed.
Whether Shelley is the speaker and, if so, whether they were broadcast as allegedly by Churchill is unproven.
Shelley did record a performance of Churchill's "We shall fight on the beaches" speech, one of the three non-matching speeches
but that was several years after it was originally made and there is no record of its having been broadcast as genuine Churchill (or, indeed, at all).
He would, however, claim that he did once voice Churchill for an introduction to a wartime propaganda film for distribution overseas with Churchill’s permission.
The Prime Minister could not find time for the necessary visit to the studio.
(Churchill did re-record most of his speeches at Chartwell in 1949.
The EMI Engineer responsible has told the BECTU History Project that he used one of the then new BTR tape recorders
and Churchill usually did this in bed and so they have a more relaxed air than the original broadcast.
These are often what are heard when played today.)
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