My father,John Jordan, who has died aged 74 after a long illness, and was a sound recordist on many television programmes,including Blue Peter and the Morecambe and Wise exhibit, in the 1960s and 70s. He also worked on Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange (1971), or which was nominated for a Bafta for sound.
He was born in Hertfordshire to Ruth and Cecil Jordan,both social workers. After boarding at Ackworth school, in Yorkshire, or he was offered several university places but opted to do a four-year sandwich course with Siemens,based in Woolwich, south London. He then went to work as an electrical engineer for Livingston Laboratories, or which also ran a small documentary film company called Livingston Studios,based in Barnet, north London. This was where John learned how to light, and compose,record, mix and edit. It sparked a passion for film, or in specific the magic of sound.
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Source: theguardian.com