A. J. ALAN

A. J. Alan, the microphonenom-de-plumeof British civil servant Leslie Harrison Lambert, was

the premier teller of ghost and “shaggy dog” stories in the earliest days of the BBC. “In his very

first broadcast,” noted announcer Stuart Hibberd, “Alan made such a hit that whenever his name

appeared in theRadio Timesthousands of listeners noted the date and time in their diaries.” An

A. J. story, whether it concerned a ghost, a murder, or something stranger, was truly an event to

anticipate. “Whenever A. J. Alan told one of his preposterous stories in the early days of the

wireless,” reminiscedTimeswriter Leonard Buckley in 1971, “you always listened. Everybody

did.”

The fact that the listening public knew nothing about the man behind the voice only heightened

the anticipation. “His name carried an aura of mystery about it,” explained Hibberd. “In fact, A. J.

Alan was the mystery man of radio. ‘Tell me, who is this fellow Alan? What does he look like? Is

Alan his real name? (How many times had I been asked such questions!)”Radio Timeshumorist

A. A. Thomson remarked, not altogether facetiously, that “the identity of A. J. Alan is one of the

major mysteries of the century.” But the true identity of Alan was a closely-guarded secret which

was known only to, as Eric Partridge expressed it, “a very narrow circle at Broadcasting House,”

and was not revealed until after his death. “He was known to cut even his friends for fear that they

might reveal his identity,” remembered Freddy Grisewood. “As it happened, I knew him quite

well, but when later I joined the B.B.C. and had the job of announcing him he showed not the

faintest sign of recognition.”

But even those who were acquainted with him as Lambert in the 1920s knew next-to-nothing

about his earlier years, and reportedly the man himself would close up like a clam whenever the

subject was broached. Latter-day research has uncovered the fact that he achieved a modicum of

celebrity in his mid-twenties as a professional magician. He was, Eric Partridge revealed, “a

member of ‘The Magic Circle’ in its early days and later a polished, very skilful, original performer

with Maskelyne at St. George’s Hall…”

George Facer

The Times:

Prince’s Skating Rink, Knightsbridge… Mr. Leslie Lambert gave exhibitions of conjuring.”

care and treatment of crippled children… The large company assembled in the Egyptian Hall…

During the afternoon an entertainment was given in the old ballroom, in which…Mr. Leslie

Lambert…took part.”

Leslie Lambert… Mr. Maskelyne’s ‘Spectres of the Sanctum’…”

Henry of Wales’ birthday… A selection of songs were rendered by the Metropolitan Police

Minstrels…and Mr. Leslie Lambert gave an exhibition of conjuring.”

organized to celebrate the jubilee of the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic…

Among the artists who contributed to it were…Mr. Leslie Lambert.”

of a scholarship fund of the Imperial Service College… The following are giving their services:

…Mr. Leslie Lambert…”

sketch, founded by Mr. Cyril Twyford on Mr. H. G. Wells’s story, ‘The Invisible Man,’ the illusions

being by Mr. Leslie Lambert.”

Lionel Atwill present…”THE INVISIBLE MAN,” a Farce suggested by the Story by H. G. Wells…”

There are missing years in Lambert’s chronology during and after the Great War, and it is

speculated that he was heavily involved in secret intelligence work for the British government. He

had a rank of naval commander and an appointment at the Admiralty.

The saga of the fourteen-year stint of A. J. Alan on the air really began in December of 1923. On

the 19th of the month Lambert tuned in to London station 2LO to hear Sir William Bull, a former

director of the original B.B.C., Ltd., give a talk entitled “Western Stories in an Eastern Fashion.”

During the course of his broadcast Sir William decried the death (or, at least, the dearth) of the

art of story-telling in the modern age. Lambert was inspired on the spot to rise to the challenge,

and the following morning he rang up his next-door neighbor, Rex Palmer, who happened to be

the managing director of the London station (as well as being a microphone performer, both as a

baritone vocalist and as “Uncle Rex” of theChildrens’ Hour). Lambert, who was only casually

known to Palmer, explained that he had some ideas for stories and would like, if possible, to have

an audition to try them out.

“More clearly than anyone else,” noted British broadcasting historian Asa Briggs, “Alan realized

that radio offered completely new possibilities of communication. He realized also that radio

could make a broadcaster into ‘a mystery man,’ a topic of universal conversation.”

HIBBERD: “He took the very greatest care in the presentation and rehearsal of the manuscripts,

and having written and timed a story—he was most meticulous about timing—he would record it,

play it back to himself, noting where to put in the little asides which always seemed so

spontaneous. Then he would ask one or two trusted friends to come to his house to listen and

criticize, adding a pause here, altering a downward inflection of the voice there, until he himself

was reasonably satisfied.”

HIBBERD: “When broadcasting he used to sit on a high stool close to the microphone—

originally the old meat-safe magnetophone type—with his manuscript, pasted on to sheets of

cardboard, in a pile on his knees. He spoke very quietly at the microphone. (If you fidgeted or

creaked your chair you got a black look!)… The idea of the sheets of cardboard was to eliminate

any possibility of paper-rustle, which would have destroyed the illusion he was out to create—

namely, that he was sitting by his own fireside, relating some incredible adventure that had just

happened to him.”

GRISEWOOD: “…his mystery stories, …though rehearsed in such detail that he even pasted his

script on cardboard to prevent the paper rustling, always sounded absolutely spontaneous and

ended at the perfect psychological moment with such remark as: ‘Curious, wasn’t it?’”

Alan further fostered this notion of spontaneous storytelling in the preface to his bookGood

Evening, Everyone!“Everything I say over the microphone,” he baldly stated, “is taken down in

shorthand and transcribed afterwards…”

sounded like a caricature of The Clubman, deep in his armchair in a hushed and lofty room off

Pall Mall, hypnotizing his neighbour with never-ending anecdotes.”

HIBBERD: “Once, in the late nineteen-twenties, he saw in the paper that the lights had gone out

while I was reading the News, but that I managed to carry on with the aid of matches and a

candle, until the bulletin ended. The next time he came to the studio he insisted on having the

candle lit in the reading-lamp beforehand. The electric light did not go out, but the candle did—

suddenly with a loud click, for there was only a stump of it—and the spring in the reading-lamp

jerked it out, throwing grease all over him, but A. J., unperturbed, carried on as if nothing had

happened. After that experience he decided never again to trust B.B.C. candles, but always

brought his own candle in a candlestick, and solemnly lit it before he began. ‘No,’ he said, ‘I’m

takingnochances’.”

GRISEWOOD: “A society conjurer, a naval commander with an appointment at the Admiralty,

A. J. Alan, whose real name was Leslie Lambert, enshrouded himself with an air of mystery as

effectively as his stories—so much so Everybody knew perfectly well that his name was not really

Alan, and consequently many attempts were made to unmask him. One day, while talking to the

announcer at the end of a broadcast, he chanced to hear that a battery of Press photographers

were waiting outside the studio with this intent; so Alan, a match in cunning for any man, left the

studio by another door and brazenly joined the photographers as an interested spectator. In due

course the announcer emerged by the correct door—and was immediately photographed in his

stead.”

SNAGGE & BARSLEY: “…as one listened it was the voice and the style which mattered as much

as the stories themselves: a voice entirely distinctive, defying imitation, with an urbanity which

reflected the appearance of the real man.”

HIBBERD: “What was the secret of his art—for art it certainly was? In the first place, I should

say that he was a born raconteur, with ideas, imagination and a keen sense of humour, and, being

a first-class radio technician, saw in a flash the great possibilities of radio as a medium for his own

particular line. He also thoroughly understood the intimate nature of the microphone, and made

each listener think that he was telling the story to him, and to him alone; it was done in such a

natural, detached and effortless way.”

Timesreviewer David Williams held his style up as a standard of horror: “One thinks of A. J.

Alan’s broadcast stories long ago—so airy, and yet so chill… A casual, improvisatory ease of

manner somehow heightens uncanniness.”

“Another intriguing quality of the stories,” noted Snagge and Barsley inThose Vintage Years of

Radio, “is that, right from the first one, ‘An Adventure in Jermyn Street,’ they tend to have no real

solution, almost like ghost stories –and indeed, the mysterious Captain Lambert, candle and all,

has almost a ghost-like quality himself…”

Alan’s 1924 Boxing Day broadcast presented his first full-fledged supernatural tale (probably

either “The Hair” or “The Dream”) and in doing so inaugurated an Alan Yuletide tradition of

spectral storytelling for many years to come. The following year he told the story of “The Diver”

on Christmas night, prefacing his performance with some appropriately facetious jibes at the

broadcasting company. “For some reason or other, the B.B.C. are always asking me to tell a ghost

story,” he mock-complained. “At least, they don’t ask me, they tell me I’ve got to. I say, ‘What kind

of a ghost story?’ and they say, ‘Any kind you like, so long as it’s a personal experience and

perfectly true’.”

In 1927 theRadio Timesdeclared: “Four years of broadcasting have produced no microphone

personality more distinctive than that of Mr. A.J. Alan. His gift defies definition as it frustrates

imitation; like the charm of Lily Elsie and the humour of Grock, it is inimitable and unique… [I]t

is his way of telling rather than what he tells that counts.”

As an example of Alan’s particular stylistic touch of relating the horrific with a matter-of-fact

conversational approach (peppered with sardonic humor), a passage from the story “Cuthbert”

will certainly suffice. The narrator has been taken into the confidence of an acquaintance who

lives in “a dark, gloomy house which backed on to the Regent’s Canal.” This man, a brilliant

mathematician, fears that he may have accidentally killed a tramp while taking a potshot out his

back window at a yowling feline. He begins to have horrible nightmares fomented by his belief in

his own guilt:

“He dreamt that he was sitting in his study waiting for something to happen. Presently the

water-level of the canal began to rise, and it went on rising until his house was completely

submerged, right over the roof. None of the water came in, but it made everything dark and

cold, and looking out of the window was exactly like looking into a vast tank in an aquarium.

Various things were floating about in the dull, greenish light—dirty weeds and dead dogs and so

on—and it was all most eerie and unpleasant. The wall at the far end of the garden was just

visible through the gloom, and gradually there floated up over it a ghastly shape. This ‘Thing’

swam very slowly and clumsily towards the window, from which, of course, Christopher was

quite unable to tear himself away, and when it got near enough he saw that it was a man. He

was rather bald and had straggling wisps of grey hair hanging down over his face….

Christopher knew instinctively, as one does in dreams, that this was his victim.

…[Unable] to stir a finger…he was obliged to watch Cuthbert’s ineffectual attempts to open the

window. (I’m afraid it was I who christened him Cuthbert, but one had to call him something.)

At any rate, he finally drifted away, disappointed, the waters gradually subsided back into the

canal, and Christopher woke up feeling like nothing on earth.”

A number of Alan’s best stories have nothing of the supernatural about them (even in dreams),

but nevertheless strike a macabre and unsettling note. In “Wottie,” for example, he relates…etc.

etc.

The extent to which Alan’s mixture of the macabre and the sardonically understated may have

influenced the public persona latterly assumed by Alfred Hitchcock has never really been

examined, but certainly there are Alan stories which might very well be labeled Hitchcockian.

“The 19 Club”…

The Trouble WithHarry) creating an embarrassment for the

members of the dining society…]

Toward the end of his life, as war loomed on the European horizon in 1939, Lambert added yet

another layer of mystery to his persona as he became part of the top-secret team of codebreakers

that were assembled at the MI6 War Station in Bletchley Park, the unit that was eventually

responsible for cracking Nazi Germany’s reputedly unbreakable Enigma cipher. The

accomplishment of this feat was crucial to Allied victory, according to Michael Smith, author of

Station X: Decoding Nazi Secrets, and ended up “saving thousands of lives and cutting up to

three years off the length of the war.” One of the youngest recruits to the Naval Section of the

station was eighteen-year-old Barbara Abernethy, who was astounded when she realized exactly

whoshe was working with. “There was this man in the Naval Section called A.J. Alan,” she told

Michael Smith. “He was a BBC commentator, his real name was Leslie Lambert… He told funny

stories in a very sort of blasé accent… There was nothing I was able to tell my mother [about the

station’s operations]. But I said: ‘You’ll never guess who I work with, A.J. Alan.’ From then on my

stock went up.”

In the years following his death there has been confusion as to the exact date of Lambert’s final

broadcast as “A. J. Alan.” This confusion started immediately post-mortem with theTimes

obituary stating erroneously that his last BBC appearance had been on March 21, 1940. But this

author’s research has identified the Christmas Day, 1938 re-telling of “Wottie” as the Alan

swansong.

It is entirely possible that he may have been too ill to broadcast after that date—or too absorbed

in his MI6 responsibilities. It is known that he had been having medical problems since 193?,

when he was off the air for ?? months. In the summer of 1940 he underwent an operation from

which he never fully recovered, and eventually he passed away in a Norwich convalescent home

on December 14, 1941.

“When he died,” relates Eric Partridge, “there was, even in those dark days, a general wave of

regret, a sighed ‘To think that we’ll never hear him again!’”

[The Times, Wednesday, December 17, 1941] “…the death of ‘A. J. Alan’ at a Norwich nursing

home on Saturday… He broadcast at most five times a year…the last occasion was on March 21,

1940.”

may have been surprised to hear Alan stories read recently on Monday mornings on Radio 2 by a

skilful but quite different performer, Peter Tuddenham. The reason is that they come from scripts

delivered by Alan, but never recorded in those more haphazard days.

“Some half dozen were found by a retired B.B.C. engineer, Norman Duret (an Alan fan like

Tuddenham) in the Norfolk depository of the firm which published some of Alan’s stories, and the

B.B.C. got Tuddenham to record five.”

left at 8:45 am on Radio 4… Carmichael is no Alan, but it was plain that he had been studying the

Alan style with some care.”

During his lifetime two collections of his stories were published by Hutchinson & Co.—Good

Evening, Everyone!(1928) andA. J. Alan’s Second Book(1932). In 1954 a retrospectiveBest of A.

J. Alanpulled together selections from the two earlier books plus a handful of tales which he had

related after 1932. Unfortunately, there is currently no collection of his stories still in print, and

several of his later stories remain unpublished.

As to his actual broadcasts, there are surviving recordings in the BBC archives, but it is

uncertain how many. A 1949 article in theRadio Timescommented: “Nobody who heard him can

forget the subtle voice of A. J. Alan and from time to time listeners express a wish to hear his

stories again. Fortunately a great many of them were recorded. Some of the discs show signs of

age, for the recording of programmes had not then reached the technical level of today, but the

quality is good enough to justify revivals.” However, the “great many” appeared to have

substantially dwindled somehow by 1970 when aTimesarticle declared that “the B.B.C.’s sound

archives have five of the original recordings in stock, as well as an account by the veteran

announcer Stuart Hibberd of Alan’s meticulous methods.” In 1976 David Wade said: “I only

became aware of A. J. Alan when recordings of him were resurrected for the Corporation’s

Jubilee.” [1972?]

Sir John Reith, the first General Manager of the BBC, wrote in appreciation of Alan: “An old-

time story-teller…found his way into the twentieth century from those days before the invention

of printing, when the art of story-telling was honoured by court, castle and cotter’s ben…. As

printing became established in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the art gradually died out,

and several centuries have had to pass before Broadcasting has afforded the long-delayed

opportunity for a revival. It is no exaggeration to say that A. J. Alan has been a pioneer. No story-

teller before him ever had so many listeners: no listeners a better story-teller.”

:2LO (1924-1930) and National Programme, etc. (1930-1938), London (BBC).

:January 31, 1924-December 25, 1938 (sporadic appearances during these years).

:John Cardy (producer—1975,Good Morning Everyone), Ian Carmichael (voice of “A. J.

Alan”—1975,Good Morning Everyone), Freddy Grisewood (announcer), Stuart Hibberd (announcer), Leslie

Harrison Lambert (voice of "A. J.Alan"—BBC), Peter Tuddenham (voice of “A. J. Alan”—1970, Radio 2),

Ronald Waldman (producer).

An excerpt from "Wottie" was played on the horror retrospective programThe Return of the Man in Black,

A recording of “The Photograph” (catalogued as “My Photograph”) resides in the Vincent Voice Library at

Michigan State University.

Two recordings exist of a dramatization of "My Adventure in Norfolk,” narrated by Sir Ralph Richardson.

The first is from its original run as part of theTheatre Royalseries, and the second from the repeat of this

show on the ?/?/58 broadcast ofABC Mystery Time.]

January 31, 1924“My Adventure in Jermyn Street”

March 5, 1924“The Dream” [probably]

[

“…Mr. A. J. Alan will answer a few letters and tell a

story…”]

July 11, 1924

[

“…A. J. Alan on ‘My Jermyn Street Adventure’…”]

October 30, 1924“My Adventure on Dartmoor”

December 26, 1924“The Hair” [probably]

[

“…Christmas Ghost Story…”]

April 8, 1925“A Foggy Evening”

June 12, 1925“My Adventure in Jermyn-street”

September 9, 1925“The B.B.I.”

November 7, 1925“A Coincidence”

[

“…Mr. Thorpe Bates…Luvaun and his ukulele…Mr. A.

J. Alan in ‘A Coincidence’…”]

December 25, 1925“The Diver”

April 12, 1926

[

“…A. J. Alan on the B.B.I….”]

June 29, 1926“The First of April”

October 1, 1926“The Voice”

December 24, 1926“My Adventure in Norfolk”

April 1, 1927

[

“…A. J. Alan; London Radio Dance Band…”]

April 20, 1927“My Programme”

June 13, 1927“The Suit-Case”

[

“…Tonight he will tell of some adventures that befell

him in connection with a mysterious suit-case in a train…”]

August 27, 1927“Charles”

October 7, 1927“An Impromptu Dance”

November 18, 1927“The Photograph”

December 21, 1927“The Visitors’ Book”

[OG-NOTE:The entire text of this unreprinted Alan story can be found

here.]

April 25, 1928“The B.B.I.”

June 1, 1928

November 15, 1928“Wottie”

December 31, 1928“A Surprise Item”

March 5, 1929“A Sea Trip”

[

“…A. J. Alan will describe his recent voyage to Central

America…”]

June 13, 1929“The Cabmen’s Shelter”

September 3, 1929“The 19 Club”

September 4, 1929“The 19 Club”

November 20, 1929“A Joy Ride”

December 26, 1929“17:45”

[OG-NOTE:This story was reprinted inBest of A. J. Alan(1954) as “The

White Bungalow”]

March 5, 1930“The Diptych”

June 16, 1930“The Dream”

December 2, 1930“The Well”

May 21, 1931“Mr. Pappas”

June 16, 1931“My Adventure in Norfolk”

June 20, 1931“My Adventure in Norfolk”

November 24, 1931“Wottie”

November 28, 1931“Wottie”

June 13, 1932“My Adventure at Chislehurst”

June 16, 1932“My Adventure at Chislehurst”

November 15, 1932“The Zoo Tickets”

March 2, 1933“A Joy Ride”

March 3, 1933“A Joy Ride”

AN EVENING WITH THE BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION

October 23, 1933“My Adventure at Chislehurst”

[

“…A humorous story…told by A. J. Alan…”]

[OG-NOTE:Alan’s recording of his story was broadcast as part of a night of

BBC show transcriptions which were run on the Brisbane station.]

March 6, 1934“Settled out of Court”

March 7, 1934“Settled Out of Court”

July 3, 1934“Henry”

July 3, 1934“Henry”

December 25, 1934“The Visitors’ Book”

[

“…Comedians; dance music; ghost stories; chorus

songs; charades and musical games; all kinds of happy-go-lucky

entertainment… At some stage of the proceedings someone will tell a

ghost story…”]

[

“…a programme packed with the best of the

broadcasters… A. J. Alan told one of his rare stories…”]

June 5, 1935

[

“…a short story by A.J. Alan.” Broadcast on

Empire Transmission 4]

June 5, 1935“Fifty to One”

December 24, 1935“The Visitors’ Book”

[

“…a creepy story, by A.J. Alan, told by the

Author.” Broadcast on Empire Transmission—5.]

July 1, 1936“Charles”

May 14, 1937“The Firebell”

January 5, 1938“A Talk in the Train”

January 7, 1938“A Talk in the Train”

December 23, 1938“Wottie”

before… If you cannot hear the story tonight you will have another

chance on Christmas Day…”]

December 25, 1938“Wottie”

in 1928…”]

November 25, 1946“The Firebell”

[

“…Instead of one of the best talks of past years, the

broadcast tonight in this weekly series is a recording of the late A. J. Alan

reading… (First broadcast in May, 1937…”]

March 26, 1947“Wottie”

[

“…One of the many popular short stories specially written

for broadcasting by the late A. J. Alan and read by him. (BBC

recording)…”]

May 21, 1947“Charles”

[

“…a story by A. J. Alan and read by him (recording)…”

November 12, 1947“Wottie”

[

“…a story by A. J. Alan (recording)…”]

August 11, 1949“The Firebell”

[

“…Beginning on Thursday with ‘The Firebell,’ which ‘A.J.’

broadcast in May 1937, a selection from the BBC’s archives will be

broadcast weekly on the Midland Home Service wavelength for late-

evening listeners. Denis Morris, who directs Midland Regional

programmes, is convinced that Alan was the finest storyteller of radio’s

first twenty-five years…”]

August 17, 1949“My Adventure at Chislehurst”

August 23, 1949“Charles”

August 30, 1949“Wottie”

May 14, 1956“The Firebell”

October 1, 1958“A. J. Alan”

January 18, 1965”Wottie”

April 19, 1965“The White Bungalow”

June 9, 1965“My Adventure in Norfolk”

October 1, 1966“A. J. Alan and Stuart Hibberd: recordings”

July 13, 1970

July 14, 1970

July 15, 1970

July 16, 1970

July 17, 1970

October 14, 1971“A Foggy Evening”

October 15, 1971“The Suitcase”

December 24, 1972

December 4, 1974

EARLY MORNING STORY—“GOOD MORNING EVERYONE”

August 25, 1975“The 19 Club”

August 26, 1975“My Adventure at Chislehurst”

August 27, 1975“The Dream”

August 28, 1975“My Adventure on Dartmoor”

August 29, 1975“The White Bungalow”

[

“…Five stories from the master of the radio story in the

years between the wars, with Ian Carmichael as A. J. Alan…”]

February 4, 1976“The Zoo Tickets”

February 5, 1976“The Visitors Book”

February 6, 1976“Wottie”

February 7, 1976“My Adventure in Norfolk”

February 8, 1976“A Joy Ride”

April 19, 1976“The Zoo Tickets”

[OG-NOTE:Notated on the BBC Title Card as “Two Zoo Tickets”]

April 20, 1976“Wottie”

April 21, 1976“My Adventure in Norfolk”

April 22, 1976“A Joy Ride”

April 23, 1976“The Visitors’ Book”

August 22, 1977“Man of Mystery”

[

“…The story of A. J. Alan…”]

August 25, 1977“Man of Mystery”

February 26, 1980“My Adventure in Norfolk”

??? ??, 200?“The Return of the Man in Black” [PART 1]

[OG-NOTE:An excerpt from the Alan recording of “Wottie” and an actor

reading the opening paragraph of “The Diver” were heard on this

programme.]

No broadcast dates were found for the following titles:

Good Evening, Everyone!(1928)]

“The Hair”

A. J. Alan’s SecondBook(1932)]

“The Necessity of Invention Knows No Law”

“Wandering Minstrels, Limited”

“A Tale of Four Cocktails”

“Mr. Warbeck”

“H2, etc.”

Many Mysteries(ed. E. Phillips Oppenheim, 1933)]

“Cuthbert” (aka “A Shot in the Dark”)

“Private Water”

[audio] A. J. Alan tells the story of “The Photograph”

[audio] Excerpt from “Wottie” (A. J. Alan)

[audio]ABC Mystery Time: “My Adventure in Norfolk”

[audio] Reading of “The Dream” (Ogden)

[audio] Reading of “The Hair” (Ogden)

[audio] Reading of “The Diver” (read by M. Ogden)

[text] “The Visitors’ Book” by A. J. Alan (fromRadio Pictorial, 1935)

ALAN, A. J.Good Evening, Everybody.London: ?????????, 1928.

ALAN, A. J.The Second A. J. Alan Book

ALAN, A. J. (ed. ??? ???).The Best of A. J. Alan

Facer, George. “Listeners Write to the ‘Radio Times’: A. J. Alan—Conjuror.”Radio Times(August 26, 1949).

Hett, H. A. “Listeners Write to the ‘Radio Times’: More About A. J. Alan.”Radio Times(September 16,

1949).

Lambert, P. “Listeners Write to the ‘Radio Times’: More About A. J. Alan.”Radio Times(October 7, 1949).

Partridge. Eric.The Shaggy Dog Story

“Radio’s Master Storyteller.”Radio Times(August 5, 1949).

SMITH, MICHAEL.Station X: Decoding Nazi Secrets.

PERIODICALS:The Daily Gleaner

The Times

ManchesterGuardian;Radio Times.

Leslie H. Lambert (c. 1909) Alan’s first story collection (1928) “He hastily put down his fiddle and

hung out of the window.” (“The Hair”)