Who's Who

Mick (Masaki) Sawaguchi graduated in 1971 in electronics from the Chiba Institute of Technology in Tokyo and joined NHK

Peter Thomas was born in Ramsgate Kent in 1955. Fascinated as a child by his grandfather’s wind up gramophone, he began collecting 78rpm records, the start of his life-long passion in sound and his love of music.

David Meares graduated from Salford University and joined the BBC’s Research Department in 1968.

“An engineer born and bred” The son of a garage (and later machine tools company) owner, Peter Rayner feels that he was predestined to become an engineer. Some of his earliest toys were tools, including a junior hacksaw

Hugh joined the BBC in 1954 and became a TV sound supervisor, renowned in the LE field.

Graham joined the BBC from university and moved into BBC TV Outside Broadcasts in 1964, quickly establishing an…

A sound supervisor in BBC Radio outside broadcasts. Always known as “Kutsch”, Harold was…

Vivienne Dyer began working at Rycote in 1985 when the company was run by its founder, John Gozzard and a mere handful of employees.

Chris began as a Technical Operator with the BBC, when 600 ohm resistors were mandatory, and “digital” meant counting on your fingers.

Robert is respected as the UK’s leading television sound supervisor and sound both for his work in the UK and around the world. He has been involved in television sound production for 45 years,

After a long career in the recording industry Ron became the original editor of the Institute’s journal Line Up.