THE MISSION: To make short promotional  PSAs for often quite unremarkable social events run by members of the BFBS Gibraltar audience of service people and civillian support workers.

THE KIT: A basic production studio ('GP' or 'General Purposes') equipped with two turntables, two two-track reel-to-reel tape machines and a cartridge recorder and triple-stack player. Definitely no computers, no SADiE, no Cool Edit etc.- because they hadn't been invented yet... and this wasn't all that long ago!

THE STRATEGY: Most recording is done in real time, with only extra effects and beds being added in post-production.  Voicing over the bed gives the V/O a sense of pace, anyway.

July offers at the Naafi - 56". With Bob Jones as the father and ET as himself.

Cheese and wine party - 40". Men like this are to be avoided at all cost.


More unmissable wise buys at the Naafi… two tracks totalling 90". One features a cameo appearance by Jon Shilling as Brains (well, he did have an Oxbridge first in Chemistry).


The USSC Summer Ball - 35". Another negative male stereotype, although Mathilda doesn't emerge from the experience completely unblemished.


The Gibraltar 3A's Around the Rock Fun Run - 35".


HMS Rooke Hogmanay Hooley - 30".


8th Surveillance Troop - 59". A very good offer, this, at the time: borrow a British army jeep, drive around Morocco and see what happens. Not such a good idea, now, though. This item was written and produced by Jon Shilling, and it features Bob Jones as the straight man and Gillie Butcher on the tag. Were these ham sandwiches, perhaps?

Some more examples of creative production will be added to this page shortly.