Teletext People - David Rayers and Charles Hope Panel Special

In This Episode, Chris Bell of Super Page 58 dot com needs our help.

The main feature today is a real treat and is a recording of a panel from teletext 50 form September 2024 at the centre for computing history in Cambridge.

The two Gentlemen you are going to hear from were guests and kindly agreed to provide us with an impromptu panel on the Sunday morning.

The panel was somewhat of an exclusive and luckily for all of us Jason Robertson was on hand to record the majority of the panel for prosperity by leaving his phone on voice record and placing it next to a speaker!

The first 30 seconds or so is David Rayer's speaking to Jason just before the panel started in in foyer of the centre, I included it because it provided some context to Davis role.  David was the Principal R and D engineer at BBC research, Kingsford Warren-  his remit included Ceefax, telesoftware and data broadcasting.

The next gentleman we are introduced to is Charles Hope, who worked for BBC R and D at Television centre, Lyme Grove and Henry Wood House, working in the field of Standard Conversion in Ceefax as well as marketing the technology to other broadcasters, more of this you will hear.

Charles also worked on many newsworthy events, the 1966 World Cup, the Olympics in Mexico, the Winter Olympics in Grenoble and also the Assignation of John F Kennedy.

The accounts from David and Charles provides a  great compliment to the recollections of John Adams, who I recently interviewed, it is available already just look for John Adams in my podcast feeds.

If you want to see other panels that were hosted that weekend, you should visit Jamie Nemeth's YouTube page where he has provided recordings. I would urge anyone who has not as yet to visit there as there are many contributors who have never shared the experiences of Teletext and Ceefax before in that context and probably will not have the opportunity again for some time.

So thanks again for Jason's quick thinking, we join the panel and apologies in advance for the varying sound quality but on this the episode!..