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> A French version of
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Welcome in
Normandy... |
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These pages recall the history of ...
RADIO FECAMP. (1926-1928)
RADIO NORMANDY.
(1928-1939)
and the short-lived station
RADIO INTERNATIONAL.
(october 1939 to january 1940)
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NEWS |
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Access to the audio Files (sound extracts)
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List of some websites about Radio Normandy
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david_newman
Memories of
David
(Ian) Newman
announcer... |
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On May 28,
2007, we had received a friendly message from David Newman, english
announcer on Radio Normandy.
It was the first time that our site collected the memories of a
personality directly related to the activity of the station. These
remarks were fascinating because they had been unknown until now.
For this day, we had kept the contact with David, also impassioned by
the radio. Our curiosity pushed us to ask him many questions about Radio
Normandy. His answers (in French) are here :
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Lettres <
On May 8, 2009, Mr. Keith Wallis, author of the book “And the World
Listened” sends this message :
"Dear JC,
I am sorry to inform you that David died last week after a short
illness. I attended his funeral on Wednesday. (...)
I am in the
course of preparing an obituary, a copy of which I will send you as
soon as it is ready. You may like to include it on your website or
in the Radio Normandy Newssheet.
I will contact you again within the next few days.
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Thank You
Keith, we publish it here:
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Tribute
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David (Ian) Newman in action
for Radio Normandy |
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6th August 1994
The regional weekly magazine “Le Courrier Cauchois” had
written an article to David Newman, at the time of a recent stay in
Caudebec-in-Caux where he was announcer for the English broadcasts of
Radio Normandy from 1938 until 1939
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Le Courrier Cauchois
(6.08.1994)
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January 2008, "And The World
Listened"...
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A NEW BOOK...
" AND THE WORLD LISTENED "
par Keith Wallis
Lenny
Plugge founded the International Broadcasting Company in 1930. Its first
location was at 11 Hallam Street in central London, practically next
door to where the BBC's new headquarters, Broadcasting House was under
construction. Plugge was not short of cheek and it was that aspect of
him that contributed so much to his success and to the development of
English language commercial radio beamed from continental stations like
Radios Paris, Post Parisien, and especially Radio Normandy. Plugge’s
broadcasting ventures made him a millionaire, but his personal life was
less successful.
This book tells the full story: his tours through Europe in the 1920s in
cars equipped with huge radios and transmitters fitted with frame
aerials, the development of the IBC, his ten years as an MP, his
marriage break-down and family tragedies of his later life. Some of the
famous names involved in the story are Jacqueline Bouvier (later
Kennedy), Lady Docker, Annigoni, Sarah Churchill, Noel Coward, Hugh
Gaitskill, Mick Jagger, April Ashley and Michael X.
KELLY BOOKS
http://www.offshoreechos.com/Accueil English Catalogue-01.htm
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5th january 2008, "The
Archive Hour"...
God,
Pirates and Ovaltineys
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/ |
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Broadcast from BBC Radio 4 introduced by Sean Street : Sean Street investigates the history of the cultural battle between the BBC and
commercial radio, which predates the pirate music stations of the 1960s
by several decades.
A transcription of this broadcast is available
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Thanks to our friend André Cousin
Listen to the broadcast
with the first link
below "Some sound extracts"
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Sean Street
The link to
Sean Street's Website is
http://www.seanstreet.com/ |
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18th November 2006... |
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1926 - 2006 :
Radio Normandy
is 80 years old !
French
local press did not forget !
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Le Progrès de Fécamp
Le Courrier Cauchois (18.11.2006)
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Audio
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SOUND EXTRACTS |
> All the sound files are Real Media format ...
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<< click on and listen
to...
(58')
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/
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In the broadcast intitled
God,
Pirates and Ovaltineys
Sean Street
on BBC Radio 4 (01.05.2008) investigates the history of the cultural battle between
the BBC and commercial radio, (before the offshore radio stations many
years later).
David Ian Newman, announcer at Radio Normandy can be heard |
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on and listen to... (30')
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/
> Broadcast from BBC Radio 4
The First Pirate
introduced by Les
Woodland : "This is the story of Captain Plugge, one of Britain's
first commercial broadcasters. Unable to broadcast as he wished in Britain, he set up a studio in Fecamp and Radio Normandy was born..." |
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<< click on and
listen to... (9')
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Aircheck from
Radio
Normandy
with Announcer : Roy Plomley.
Roy
Plomley
(1914-1985)
was the son of a
pharmacist and was educated
at King's College School,
Wimbledon. On leaving school he worked first
briefly for an estate agent, then for a London
advertising agency, then in publishing. His original aim
was to be an actor, and he did secure very minor parts
in a number of films, but he soon drifted into
broadcasting, coming to public notice as an announcer,
and later producer, for the
International Broadcasting Company (IBC),
starting on Radio Normandy
in April 1936 and moving on at the end of that year to
the IBC's Paris-based station,
Poste Parisien. Between mid-1937 and late 1939 he
was involved in writing and production, travelling back
and forth between these two IBC stations in France and
the company's offices and studios in London, while also
presenting the variety programme Radio Normandy
Calling, recorded on location in theatres at UK
seaside resorts and regularly beating the BBC in
audience ratings.
(more news
about Roy Plomley here >
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Plomley )
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Roy Plomley
announcer / producer Roy Plomley
and Paul McCartney Roy Plomley
at the... BBC !!!
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<<
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1st short extract
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Roy
Plomley
during a
pre-recorded show in a Blackpool Theater for Radio Normandy
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2nd short extract
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Roy
Plomley
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Part 1 - (44')
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"Searching the
Ether !"
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Commercial
stations from the Continent - part 1
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Commercial radio was beamed from the continent as early as the 1930s
from stations like Poste Parisien, Radio Normandy and Radio Luxembourg.
This fascinating story tracing the start of commercial radio in Europe
and is narrated by Alan Thompson and Dave Howell.
A Message from Alan Thompson :
----- Original Message -----
From :
Alan Thompson
To:
radionormandie@free.fr
Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 7:22 PM
Subject:
Searching the Ether
I am the writer/co-presenter of Searching the
Ether a history of prewar commercial radio which was
produced for the ILR network here in the UK. It included a
considerable amount of material from Radio Normandy (the
spelling given) and had interviews with a number of people
including Bob Danvers Walker and Roy Plomley... has anyone
heard it? If not a 90 - minute version exists.
Alan Thompson
Norfolk, England
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Hallo Jean-Claude... please do keep
Searching the Ether on your WebPages. We're flattered!
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Part 2
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"Searching the
Ether !"
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Commercial
stations from the Continent - part 2
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La
"véritable" Radio Normandie
Extracts in french
recorded in 1978, from "FR3 Radio Normandie", public regional
radio network, originated from the town of Caen, discussing about
the french service of the true "Radio Normandy".
The broadcast was produced by Richard Plumet and Dominique Nugues, with
interviews of Mr Jean Lemaitre (Aunt Francine's Brother) and Mr
Lemarchand, radio-sets salesman in Fecamp
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> Signature tune
"Nos
Vieux Pommiers"
(E. Dior)
- "Our old apple-trees" - of Radio Normandie french
service
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"Ma
Normandie"
(Frédéric Bérat)"My
Normandy" (anthem folk song, sometimes used in the programmes)
(From
"Groupe folklorique de Pont-L'Evêque", dir. Jacques Dutey, chant et orchestre Pierre Chaille)
websites |
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SOME WEBSITES ABOUT RADIO NORMANDY... |
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A website about the village of
Louvetot :
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/didier.breuque
Nice French Website about french stations from 20ties till now
with a chapter about Radio Normandy
HHistoire de la TSF en France
a
website,
with a chapter about French Radio Normandie
An excellent british site
very interesting with many information
IBC
STUDIO
 Visit
the studios where the english programmes of Radio Normandy were recorded
IBC Studios Portland - Place London
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Chronomedia
with a page dedicated to our radio station
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