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In 1941, the BBC was setting up local, low-powered transmitters that were switched off if there was an air raid so they couldn't be used by German planes to navigate. As a 'youth in training,' my job was to switch the transmitter on in the mornings and off at night, and to check that it, and the feeder land lines, were working.
I write it,
you read it,
we share the joy.
My daughter Karen was born in 1958, the year my first Paddington book came out, so she grew up with him.
After the war, I went to the BBC monitoring service in Caversham, a suburb of Reading. It was a big aerial system to listen to radio programmes all over the world.
I'm not a criminal," said Paddington, hotly. "I'm a bear!
The great advantage of having a bear as a central character is that he can combine the innocence of a child with the sophistication of an adult.
Things are always happening to me. I'm that sort of bear.
From the very beginning, there was not the slightest doubt that Olga da Polga was the sort of guinea pig who would go places.
As a cameraman, I was paid to stand within a few feet of Yehudi Menuhin performing. I saw Rudolph Nureyev dancing. I couldn't believe I was being paid for that.
Oh well, bears will be bears," said Mr Brown.
Every small boy wanted to be a steam engine driver when they grew up in the old days, including me. There's something very special about them - the noise, the smell, the steam coming out everywhere.
