Leicester Mercury from Leicester, Leicestershire, England • 17

nJ J- i- v- 1 I LEICESTER MERCURY MONDAY NOVEMBER 5 1973 17 a DaIah4 nAiiMall- anil' aft i Robert Dougall calm and concise will soor Nan' They: wife when i be seen no more as a BBC newsreader 'she'attendedfViW But he assured At FLETT that he'soo fit and 5 BBC audition ar i bib air a -bib a a wr aai a fdrAlftClCrtl 9 sceneUltogetherv ''HI Oxford reading English and I Mirhele is now a mother "In And 6ut Of The Box is an extension of the chats Robert Dougall has rVwitii viewers whenever he is on the hews or as increasingly happening guesting in other rmmmmmm mm iEYERYBOpY -Cos-air watches-vBBCtelevislonp the TV progranunes-iyv: It Ms wholly Informal book- The index reads like a who's-who of broadcasting and the show business and political worlds with Royalty tossed in for good measure -The book also devotes a chapter to the author's other Eassion: The preservation of ird life He Is president of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds' an organisation which boasts 140000 senior and 50000 Junior- members in Britain simply to dd it third dimeat slon to aiwi we el already Know ue is as Kimuy as foil "of lauahterras 'hosi Eitable as we knew he would 1' C2 When I called on him at his confortable verylivedin- 'iyfeg 'Nan shares his Interest in Ilamostead home -it was this but admiU a -wider mariiy to ask him a questibnj Was it true he was retiriM in insicnuu iiwunci tw hkiuu la au lorms wuu we December this year? "Well- he said shall be Iewingthe staff of in -December" But was he Tht- hannilv wis not ESS- '-WWwfflS) hope not prize in iiiiiid Between the It is his -intention to con more naugntiness (in a more timie working as Ma communi- adult context) as 'a young cater" ror as Ions as people' 'man' -want him to do what he tuh Dnuirall downt look: Robert Dougall doesht look: fl aft Indeed without-his wife Nan Robert Dougall says the book could never have been written "She did all the research alljhe footslogging to libraries and along the corridors those endless corridors at the BBC1 $Nan has takenT aU the hurly-burly of her husband's inevitably Irregular working hours "in her competent stride enjoys most iieaiin is noia b-ck on Mi oast with cutter and A hoon to a young man whose family like millions of others had not escaped the rigours'- of the depression 'years vrt "It wu now Robert Doueall's -job to report Britain and the world to a far-flung Empire via the then wonderful technological toy of a shortwave wireless'-' It wu the beginning of a career that-brought him In contact with the sreats of two Ha looks i and talks Sress relish Far from itVHe i undoubtedly amused by all and more importantly thinks like a nan much vounser' INTERPRETER But it Is within the format of Robert Dou gall's own personal experience that the autobiography scores Its canvas is a wide ne: Britain Europe the Far East the Soviet Union during the war years when the broadcaster disappointed at being passed over for a war correspondent appointment quit the Corporation 'enlisted In the Royal Navy studied Russian like a madman and was commissioned as an interpreter All of us have surely and wistfully hoped that our lives may have followed similarly rxciting if exhausting patterns The next best is of course to enjoy vicariously the drama and humour of It alL In And Out Of The Box" -by Robert Dougall is our passport to that enjoyment sian Ills continuing interest in ana awareness of matters political So if he eekT any "disappointment with the Beeb it is that he was never used in any of the numerous current affairs programmes DISTRACTION Robert 'wunot Jpiite £0 years old when he -oined the BBC an -accounts clerk It wu on his 21st birthday November 27 1934 that he first sat behind a microphone the youngest staff announcer ever appointed by the BBD and surely the first to beP recruited from the ledgers department Bis salary Jumped a seemingly miraculous £110 to £260 oer-annum probably the that nappenea to nun or inai he caused to happen to him wiU be Interested in After: SLANGUAGES MC Hrwas one buspects a Mt They met when Robert was generations that was to have its moment of high crisis and drama or beer-and-ikittles hilarity of travel to faraway places with strange-sounding names and to find for him a asked to sive an audition to a at I hopeful new voice He found the aspirant was a rounc 'At through to the presentation to him of "a jolly fine watchf tomark 40 years with "the BBC has been Tecorded with high good humour in an autobiography: "In And Out Of The BoxVjmblished by Collins and Harrill Press nicest possible way And he doesnt waste time regretting his mistakes But he does wonder" aloud If the BBC made the best use of him over the years There were and are hb three languages: French German Rus wife who he swears: has1 widow mother of a two-year-old daughter Michele Within weeks they were married Thejr son Alastalr is at alternatively driven nun to distraction and kept him equivalent of today sane -il9jt- (EX95) fa BARCLAYS BANK has an immediate vacancy for a tfi K-rt'- JUNIORiGIRL AGED 16-19 years J'-" ATI 18 NARBOROUGKROADICESTtR BRANCH Applicants should have beerteducated up )o GCE level or CSE sJdndard and should apply lij writing ECONOMY IALE AND FOIAI OPE AU enquiries' tfi PERSONNEL OFFICER: economic stampings' ltd VIKING ROAD WICSTON Tel Leicester 88U82 OFFieB MAAGER required for Sales Office of leading toy and Good salary Pen8ibnsch Avf3R00KROAim SUSAN 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