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Dave Mundy

Does anyone know how these two ladies from the sound empire came to be in a costume drama? I think Barbara married John Lloyd (SS) and Marion is now married to a Frenchman (Barry Bonner met her at a London railway station).

Peter Neill

Marion was a member of the Ariel Theatre Group. That might well explain the photo. She was once in a sketch written by Dick Clement and Ian la Frenais – which was later expanded to become “The Likely Lads”.

Alan Stokes, Philip Tyler, John Howell, Peter Neill, Dave Mundy

It wasn’t totally unknown for sound staff to appear in the odd drama, intentionally that was!

Mark Holland appeared in a market scene with ‘rifle stick’  in “Romeo and Juliet”, the first recording in the BBC’s Shakespeare series. TC1, Sound Sup. Colin Dixon,

Paul Graydon appeared  in Emile Zola’s “Germinal”,  a sort of French “Poldark”, .when shots of a market place were too wide to use a boom. Radio mics were still not all that reliable so he appeared as a market customer, in period costume, pointing his walking stick (actually a disguised gun mic) menacingly at some character who was causing upset.

Bill Jenkin

Barbara Lloyd was a floor manager in News for many years.  John Lloyd I bumped into at the Playschool 50th do at Riverside last year. We were unable to locate Paul Graydon when organising our TO21 & 22 reunion bash at Wood Norton a couple of weeks ago (March 2015).

Dave Mundy

Paul got very irate in the TC club after a TOTP when Ricardo Verdi (Dick Green!) and I were lusting after one of the groupies on the other side of the bar. Paul stamped his foot and declared that ‘if a gay person fancied someone they would confront them directly and not from a distance’! Dick was shell-shocked and that was that, we stood chastised!