Alfonso Marconi Alfonso Marconi Alfonso Marconi (18651936) was an Italian businessman and collector of stringed instruments, most famous for assisting his younger brother Guglielmo Marconi in his pioneering work on long-distance radio transmission Alfonso Marconi was born into the Italian nobility in 1865, the first son of Giuseppe Marconi (an Italian aristocratic landowner from Porretta Terme) and of his Irish/Scots wife, Annie Jameson (daughter of Andrew Jameson of Daphne Castle in County Wexford, Ireland, and granddaughter of John Jameson, founder of whiskey distillers "Jameson & Sons"). Alfonso was educated at Bedford School in England between 1876 and 1880, during his peripatetic childhood.
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Walker sabotage his medical test fail, Walker is invalided out because he's allergic to corned beef. The radio episode still exists and was released on Series 1 DVD, along with the other 2 missing episodes. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Walker The Loneliness of the Long Distance Walker is a missing episode in the British comedy series "Dad's Army". It was originally transmitted on Saturday 15 March 1969. Although screenshots and clips of the episode exist, the full episode is still missing from BBC Archives. To his complete surprise, Walker receives his call-up papers. Mainwaring tries his best to get