Sound effects experts create a stormThe British Phonograph Company’s Sound Effects of Britain series was one of the outstanding success stories of the 1950s, with best-selling discs such as Song of the Hedgerows, Morning in the City, Sounds of the Sea, and Factories, Shipyards and Mines.
Beatles ‘more popular than Jesus’On this day in 1966, John Lennon met his friend Maureen Cleave, a journalist for the London Evening Standard. In the course of an informal interview at his house in Weybridge, Lennon remarked that the Beatles were ‘more popular than Jesus right now’.
Moon shines onPink Floyd’s album The Dark Side Of The Moon was released on this day in 1973, and its themes of greed, death and madness proved no barrier to success.
Byron reportsDr Tanya Byron submitted her report to the Department for Children, Schools and Families on this day in 2008.
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The Venereal Diseases Research Centre at Harnham Down existed for almost a decade, without ever attracting the publicity enjoyed by its more famous neighbour, the Common Cold Unit. Read on...
The military base at Harnham Down, former home of the research centre