Hi Whirligigers! You registered to be informed of updates to the WHIRLIGIG 1950's BRITISH TV AND RADIO NOSTALGIA site. June 2003 Newsletter. "Here is the news and this is Alvar Lidell reading it....." >From 1932 Alvar Lidell was one of the best known newsreaders on the wireless. During June, I was contacted by Alvar's son Marcus and he kindly wrote a couple of anecdotes for publishing on the website. I have gathered these into a new 'Snippet': http://www.whirligig-tv.co.uk/tv/memories/snippets/index.htm >From the same page you will see that I have also added another 'Snippet' about the departure from the BBC of Jennifer Gay, the first BBC Children's TV announcer. A third new 'Snippet' was created from an extract from Steve Race's memoirs about his time on the Whirligig Children's TV show in the early '50s. All these are available from the same index link above. Only one new video clip this month and one that I have had in storage for a while. It was donated by Engldave who is a subscriber to this newsletter. The clip is an opening sequence from 'Colonel March of Scotland Yard' and includes the theme tune. The series was based on the Carter Dickson collection of short stories, The Department of Queer Complaints, published in 1940. It starred Boris Karloff as the urbane, eye-patched sleuth who worked for D-3 and whose mystery-solving ranged from the unnatural to the supernatural. On other occasions, supposedly impossible crimes landed on his desk (including a murder in a sealed compression chamber where no-one could have reached the victim). March even confronted The Abominable Snowman in one episode. However he always found the solution. Ewan Roberts and Richard Wattis supported. http://www.whirligig-tv.co.uk/tv/adults/other/british.htm#colmarch As I promised last month, news of a brand new website from Alastair and Janet Roxburgh who created the superb Telegoons website. It was only launched last weekend and is about Gordon Murray's marionette series of plays called "Rubovian Legends". Although not entirely completed yet (you may find a few missing links), it is available for initial access and promises to become the definitive work about the series of programmes. There will also be quite a long video sequence available on the website, in due course, to give you a flavour of what the programme was like or to rekindle old memories. Here is the link to the new site: http://www.telegoons.org/rubovia/index.htm =================================================================== As usual, if you think of anything that is missing or incorrect, have any more information about the programmes featured or just want to share your memories, do drop me a line to terry@whirligig-tv.co.uk Alternatively place them on the Message Board which I monitor daily at: http://go.ezboard.com/bwhirligigtv I'll be back at the end of July just in time for the start of the holiday season in the UK. Terry Guntrip (aka Mr. Turnip) http://www.whirligig-tv.co.uk http://www.TurnipNet.com -------------------------------------------------------- See the "What's New" Pages at: http://www.whirligig-tv.co.uk/tv/whatsnew.htm http://www.whirligig-tv.co.uk/radio/whatsnew.htm with links to all new major updates or use the A TO Z SITE INDEX at: http://www.whirligig-tv.co.uk/tv/siteindex.htm http://www.whirligig-tv.co.uk/radio/siteindex.htm --------------------------------------------------------