Elusive radio programme

[stevesneer]

that vid can be seen on you tube..type" 29 hanbury street."..u will see it come up...interesting vid in 1967 at that house.presenter takes a look at the scene in the yard ...and it looks exactly the same as the photos...interestingly his dog really checks that corner out.....sixth sense....or just fancys a piss ..u decide!!

[Robert]

Memory's a funny thing. I seem to remember once turning on the TV and seeing a man press down on the latch of a dilapidated door and walk into a house. Even as I saw it I thought '29 Hanbury St.' And it was! It may have been Farson - I'm not sure. I know it wasn't Mason because I've seen his clip.

The thing is, I'm not sure my memory isn't playing tricks on me, so I'm not going to ransack the universe. Good luck with this anyway, Richard.

[Bob Hinton]

No.

Hi David, don't know if you're still about but I found this for sale while surfing

JACK THE RIPPER
Exceptionally scarce pamphlet, originally broadcast on BBC Radio Four on 1 June 1972. ...

Is this the same broadcast to which you refer

all the best

Observer

I found this for Richard ages ago, even managed to source a copy but there is nothing in it about George Hutchinson.

[sdreid]

Know the feeling. I distinctly remember a TV program where a now elderly Jack the Ripper is working in a theater, I believe here in the States. My surmise was that it was either a Mike Hammer or a Meet McGraw but I can find no promising titles or descriptions connected to those shows. It would have been around 1955-65. Maybe it was on the DuMont Network which has lost a lot of its records from what I hear.

[Observer]

Hi Richard,

I have searched some copies of the Radio Times at the British Newspaper Library in Colindale, but the only entry I found was 25 May 1972 edition relating to the already identified and discounted Radio 4 broadcast.

Can you remember anything about the article, eg where it was in the magazine, were there any photos etc?

Thanks
David

Hi David, don't know if you're still about but I found this for sale while surfing

JACK THE RIPPER
Exceptionally scarce pamphlet, originally broadcast on BBC Radio Four on 1 June 1972. ...

Is this the same broadcast to which you refer

all the best

Observer

[richardnunweek]

Hi Brenda,
Thanks for the encouragement, the ninety minute slot was obviously down to University rules for visitors, i believe originally they offered us 30min/ one hour/ or 90 min, we obviously chose the latter, trying to get access to those Radio Times was extremely red tape, forms galore.
But I feel obliged to trace that edition, even if no oral tape appears to exist, simply because the title'The man that saw Jack', I hope will add some value to my age long ramblings on Reg being on radio, as part of that broadcast.
Regards Richard.

[Brenda]

Hi David,
I searched [ we searched] every magazine from april 71-july 75, but as explained we only had a 90 min slot in a very busy university liberary.
The only way to find this broadcast is to search once again , but the rear pages[ front searched], and if that fails the radio programmes [ tuesday is in my mind] i can assure anyone who visits Brighton University, after pre booking, that the programme is 100 per-cent there somewhere, as every single Radio times is there for the relevant period.
But one needs time , and extreme patience, and much cooler conditions, to be successful.
Regards Richard.

You can do it! More than anything, I hope you find that advertisement.
Why is there a 90 minute limit on viewing the material?

[Bob Hinton]

Ah but.........

That Richard old chap is what research is. Weeks, sometimes months ploughing through acres of records in the hope of finding something.

When my first book came out I was interviewed on Radio Wales and I was asked about research, the interviewer likened it to doing a jigsaw.

I replied 'Not quite. When you do a jigsaw you know what the finished picture looks like and you know all the pieces are in the box somewhere. Research is having a great big box of pieces, all of them white and you're not even sure all the pieces are present'

[richardnunweek]

Hi David,
I searched [ we searched] every magazine from april 71-july 75, but as explained we only had a 90 min slot in a very busy university liberary.
The only way to find this broadcast is to search once again , but the rear pages[ front searched], and if that fails the radio programmes [ tuesday is in my mind] i can assure anyone who visits Brighton University, after pre booking, that the programme is 100 per-cent there somewhere, as every single Radio times is there for the relevant period.
But one needs time , and extreme patience, and much cooler conditions, to be successful.
Regards Richard.

[David Knott]

Hi Richard,

I have searched some copies of the Radio Times at the British Newspaper Library in Colindale, but the only entry I found was 25 May 1972 edition relating to the already identified and discounted Radio 4 broadcast.

Can you remember anything about the article, eg where it was in the magazine, were there any photos etc?

Thanks
David

[richardnunweek]

Hi Sam.
Makes good sense to me, its so frustrating that one can remember a programme so well, and not remember the year, except 1971-july 75.
My plan was for the three of us to search the early pages of each edition, which we did, but time ran out, and to be honest the heat was just to much, that Brighton University is a heat trap, and it was all up hill to the car.
Regards Richard.

[Sam Flynn]

Richard,

It might be a good idea to check editions of the Radio Times coinciding with the dates of the canonical murders, at least initially, then widening the search to Sept/Oct/Nov editions, before going any further.

[richardnunweek]

Hi Robert.
Its a long time ago , but judging by the number of victorian murder cases i came across whilst searching yesterday that were aired on Radio 4, it would be a good bet that it was that wavelength, and as i far as i can recollect it was headlined'The man that saw jack', and as it was not in the front section of any edition for the period I searched, it had to be in the end of a copy, but as I mentioned we only had a ninety minute slot.
Regards Richard.

[Robert]

You think Richard's got problems? What about Michael Jackson?

[Suzi]

Good Luck Richard...not a job for this weather though...the damned heat and the flies!!!

Suz x