Dictaphone

“He had his Dictaphone on from the minute Lionel and Michael started writing the song and Ken started doing logistics all the way to 8 in the morning, when they left the studio,” Nottingham says.

Jamie Oliver said he recorded his first books on a Dictaphone instead of writing them down because of his struggles with dyslexia.

The film utilises hours of voice recordings from Ms McKee's mobile phone, computer and Dictaphone, as well as family footage to tell her story.

He is, obviously, irritating, but Mbatha-Raw’s only concern is that he will drown out the Dictaphone.

To write letters, he’d use an electric typewriter or audio-record memos on his Dictaphone and mail mini cassette tapes to his secretary to type and then fax or mail accordingly.