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british singer and legend petula clark began her career aged nine in front of a taipei.it's time to send along personal messages and greetings to you.... it was just to say hello, we are ok, don't worry about us, and give them a little bit of home news and that was it. during rehearsal there was the most enormous air raid and the producer asked if one of the kids could come up and sing a song or say a piece of poetry to calm things down. so i go up on stage and they put a box so that i could reach the microphone, it was one of those big bbc microphones, you know. singing petunia clark there. so while setting off singing careers and directing the second world war the microphone was clearly doing something right operationally, too. eyes had been on the groundbreaking ribbon microphone invented by rca, the radio corporation of america but it was a little too expensive. so in true bbc form, they made their own for less than 10% of what rca were charging. nice going. the taipei stayed in use by the bbc from 1934— 1959, a whole 25 years. that is a long time when technology was