Talk:Reginald Victor Jones
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R.V. Jones was fond of practical jokes and describes in his book how used that skill to deceive the Germans during the war. It may not be coincidence that shortly after many of the secrets of the scientific war were revealed in the 1970's, he appeared on television programmes on the BBC and ITV (commercial television) broadcast at exactly the same time on the same subject and was referred to in the press as "Old Twin Fees"! Man with two legs 18:08, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
Just a personal anecdote of the man.
Jones was a marvellous raconteur. I wan honoured that he accepted an invitation to speak at a free lecture I organised in Manchester UK, for the student engineering society, about 10 years before he died. Our usual meetings were attended by around 50 people. We had enough interest to book a 300 seat lecture room. On the night, it was standing room only, and we turned people away.
The audience sat in rapt silence for an hour and half (usual running time was an hour), at the end, after a standing ovation, Jones gave a 1/4 hour encore !
I took him for dinner afterwards, when he was every bit as interesting as he had been in the lecture. A n inveterate name dropper, he asked if I had read "Spycatcher" - I said I hadn't "Only the CIA sent me a copy" said Jones.
Steve Taylor
