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« on: July 07, 2023, 06:57:38 AM »
Haven't seen the film, but the man mentioned who became the first male voice of the speaking clock was the actor Brian Cobby, and I remember the story as an example of the amazing way in which the British "popular" press could find things out even before Google and the Internet and all that. A search for a new voice of the speaking clock was announced in 1984, the choice fell on Cobby, then an assistant telephone exchange supervisor, and almost immediately a paper revealed than in his acting career he'd been in a "nudist" film, complete with a still of him from the film! He nonetheless remained the voice until 2007. He died in 2012.
The prosecuting counsel in the Lady Chatterley's Lover trial who famously asked the jury if they would wish their wives or servants to read the book was Mervyn Griffith-JONES, not Johns.