Many thanks Paul Mike and Jon for your nice comments, but it's thanks again to all you lovely people who post here with an un-ending variety of fun subjects for us to respond to that make this scoring possible.
Mike, those Movietone newsreels are brilliant aren't they.
One lingering memory that we have is the World Service News on the BBC radio that always began with the tune "Lillibulero, and a news reader John Snagge.
And the one voice that seemed to dominate the airwaves and commentate on everything from sport, game shows, fashion, you name it was Bob Danvers Walker.
He told many a great story, like the time the Gestapo marched into his office that was in a sleepy little village in Normandy, and wanting to know where he was. They had his identification, and recordings of him taking the mick out of, and taking a swipe at the Nazi war machine. Bob and his wife luckily and swiftly had legged it to the station and caught the last train out.
