The BBC World Service finally leaves Bush House at noon on 12th July

[salymap]

An historic and imposing building in the Strand will be finally vacated tomorrow for new modern offices.

It will be returned, after 80 years, to its Japanese owners.

Do any of our ex BBC members have memories of it? I visited it once and it was certainly impressive.

[amateur51]

An historic and imposing building in the Strand will be finally vacated tomorrow for new modern offices.

It will be returned, after 80 years, to its Japenese owners.

Do any of our ex BBC members have memories of it? I visited it once and it was certainly impressive.

I was interviewed 'live' there very early one morning, something to do with the negative impact of the National Lottery on charitable funding which I toddled along to pooh-pooh.

Not easy to pooh-pooh before 06:30 on just BBC coffee let me tell you

[handsomefortune]

at a glance, i thought it might be another delightful winne the pooh post...

but what exactly were you pooh poohing amatuer...? were you participating in 'the toady' programme with mr humphries, to be at bh so early?

where will paddy o'c broadcast from on sunday mornings on r4 now then.... costa, or starbucks?

[Tony Halstead]

Do any of our ex BBC members have memories of it?

Well, I'm not an 'ex BBC member' but I certainly visited that

historic and imposing building

several times in the 1990s. My main reason for visiting was to meet up with (the now late/ great) Dr Ernest Warburton ( sadly died 2001) with regard to his 'grand J.C. Bach recording project'.
I have to say that I ( think) I always 'got on well' with Ernest and I was pretty well in awe of his vast knowledge.
A few years after his death I was working on a recording project with an equally distinguished BBC producer who surprised me by referring to the late Dr Warburton as a 'bloody know-all'!

[Nick Armstrong]

I was pretty well in awe of his vast knowledge.
A few years after his death I was working on a recording project with an equally distinguished BBC producer who surprised me by referring to the late Dr Warburton as a 'bloody know-all'!

I think those few lines epitomise precisely what ails the BBC these days

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at a glance, i thought it might be another delightful winne the pooh post...

but what exactly were you pooh poohing amatuer...? were you participating in 'the toady' programme with mr humphries, to be at bh so early?

where will paddy o'c broadcast from on sunday mornings on r4 now then.... costa, or starbucks?

The two "BH"s have got a bit mixed up here, eh?

[handsomefortune]

how so?

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Bush House and Broadcasting House.

And I think Paddy O'C's "BH" on Sunday, and the Today programme, don't come from either, but from Television Centre!

[handsomefortune]

and (i since notice) it's r4 .....not the world service - but thanks extended replay.

[french frank]

I think those few lines epitomise precisely what ails the BBC these days

Whereas as my first mini was called Ernest Warburton. Respec' .

[mercia]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18801251

[salymap]

Thanks for the link mercia. Is there anything about the important broadcasts made to occupied France in WW2
Ican just remember them?

[mercia]

found a little bit about de Gaulle

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/aboutthebbc/2010/06/president-sarkozy-marks-annive.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/historyofthebbc/resources/bbcatwar/overseas.shtml#one

http://www.bbc.co.uk/historyofthebbc/resources/bbcatwar/pdf/ww2timeline.pdf

when I was at school the timpanist/percussionist James Blades came to give a talk and I think he said it was he who recorded the wartime V for victory BBC call sign

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Blades

[salymap]

Thanks again mercia. I'm fairly sure that the General lived in the suburb of Bromley and Orpington, Petts Wood, then far more country than it is now. I lived not far away and often played with children from Ostend, who were rescued with their extended families by the 'little boats'when Belguim was
invaded. This was when staying with an aunt who lived there.

I too remember James Blades and the V sign he recorded. best wishes.....

[mercia]

found another interesting link

http://www.bbc.co.uk/historyofthebbc/bush_house/index.shtml