"15 Times Round The World"

New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 225, 15 October 1943, Page 12

"15 Times Round The World"

many travel talks and reminiscences have been given by "Teddy" Grundy (above). During the first world war, A. A. M. ("Teddy") Grundy was attached to Naval Intelligence, and it was in 1917 he first became interested in radio, He joined the Marconi International Marine Communication Co. Ltd., and later represented the British Wireless Marine Service in Callao, Peru. Mr. Grundy claims to have been around the world no fewer than 15 times, and to have spent more than four years in Latin-American republics, In 1922 he was a member of the archeological expedition to Cuzco ("The City of the Sun"), and two years later joined another expedition to search for the missing scientist, Colonel J. Fawcett, who was presumably lost in the Amazon jungles between the Orinoco and Rio Negro. Afterwards, he journeyed through Bolivia and Paraguay, visiting the Gran Chaco only a year before hostilities broke out between those two republics. He has given broadcasts on world affairs and foreign travel from many parts of the world, including some from the BBC, with which he worked at Savoy Hiil, London, in the days when it was the British Broadcasting Company.’ , "Teddy" Grundy has had the experience of seeing three major earthquakesthe great Yokohama earthquake of 1923, the Chilean earthquake at Coquimbo a year later, and the Napier earthquake of 1931. He claims to have been an officer in the Chilian and Peruvian navies, a journalist and an accountant. Some years ago, he was private secretary to the international financier, the Baron de Forest. Later he was on the literary staff of the Saturday Review, and before coming to the Dominion, was engaged as private secretary to the late Lady Houston, D.B.E. He was in North Russia during the Revolution in 1919. "Places in the News" (6.0 p.m. on Fridays from 3ZB), is based on. Mr. Grundy’s knowledge of European countries. "Off the Beaten Track’ (in the Sunday matinee), deals with talks on places in South America. S INCE the inception of Station 3ZB,