Michael Bond Quotes

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.

Radio is in my blood.

In 1918, when I was 6 or 7 years old, radio was just coming into use in the Great War.

In radio, you have two tools. Sound and silence.

In radio, they say, nothing happens until the announcer says it happens.

I remember that in Baltimore, where I grew up, we would drive by the radio station and tower of WBAL, and I would try to picture the people inside and what they did there.

If you had a good radio - and everybody did in those days - you could find it.

I've always been fascinated with radio and broadcasting. I did fake radio shows as a kid, where I was a DJ and stuff like that.

The new national campfire - radio.

One thing that I can tell you that we have not done very well is to build in broadcast capability into the network, and we don't take advantage of broadcast radio.

Radio is the most intimate and socially personal medium in the world.

Radio has no future. Wireless [telegraphy] is all very well but I'd rather send a message by a boy on a pony

I have always loved broadcasting - as a child in Liverpool, I would wake up and listen to Morning Merseyside on BBC Radio Merseyside and wonder, 'How do they do that?'

I had the little Radio Shack crystal radio, and then my aunt Judy bought me a shortwave radio. It was amazing to me: like on these really clear nights - I lived in Ohio - I could get Texas or Florida. You felt like the world was a smaller place.

I was born in 1935, so I was quite young when the war started. I remember we were in Bath, and it was 1942. We went down into the cellar of our house, and when we came up, I remember seeing all the glass on the floor where all the windows had been shaken out by the bombs.

Radio was my first love as a broadcaster and where it all began for my on-air career.

Before I retired, I had agreed to join the BBC to work as a pundit, with my contract beginning at the start of the 2014/15 season.

I did my teen-age years in World War II. War news was a constant. We kept the radio on in our house to hear Edward R. Murrow broadcasting from the rooftops of London, describing the blitz.

I never dreamed when I was competing at The Championships that I would one day be interviewing the winners on Centre Court for the BBC.

Fortunately... 'With Fi and Jane' features BBC veterans Fi Glover and Jane Garvey sitting in the BBC cafe, nattering about whatever interests them.

As a kid I loved to listen to the radio, later I became a radio artiste and would listen to the BBC.

I wanted to be a disc jockey.

The Federal Communications Commission licensed satellite radio to be a national-only radio service.

I've always sort of been at odds with radio programmers.

The mobile phone is not a toy; it's a device that uses radio waves.