Jill Balcon (Day-Lewis)

[…]e family. Jill Balcon  17:44  No well.  My mother had been a child actress, and had earned her own school fees in fact.  And you asked me about the formative years and all that, well, if we can spool right back to Tufton Street and the early days before E[…]

Cyril Page

[…] know, coming to work here?" and I said "Well, yes!" I mean, permanent staff - I thought "Ooh," you know, "Gift from Heaven!" and I had a year's contract...and that was the start, and I think the first job I did when I was on the staff, permanently, I did some stuff for Don Smith.Alan Lawson: Oh, Ch[…]

Ann Meo

[…]how?’ and she said, ‘Oh yes, he signed the contract yesterday’.  And I said, ‘No you didn’t, because I have an absolutely unbreakable prior contract.  You can go and tell Tony Gruner that he’s made a nasty mistake’. And she said, ‘I’ll kill him, I’ll sue him for every halfpenny…’ I’ll this[…]

Harry Manley

Harry Manley (HM)Laboratories (Colour Film Services)BECTU 383Interviewers: John Legard (JL) & Dave Robson (DR)Date: 10/06/19962 Tapes Side 100:00:00 – 00:18:08 Background and early life in Birkenhead; started at Birkenhead School in 1945 and left at sixteen; wanted a career as a customs off[…]

Derek Malcolm

This transcript has been produced automatically using Otter, https://get.otter.ai/interview-transcription/.It provides a basic, but unverified or proofread transcript of the interview. Therefore, the British Entertainment History Project (BEHP) accepts no liability for any misinterpretation of […]

Aida Young (nee Cohen)

 Interview with Aida Young The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU History Project. Aida Young, film and TV series producer. Interviewer Teddy Darvas.                       Recorded on the 29th September 1[…]

Ann Turner

[…]ew the art scene. He could hold his own with Huw. There was a there was also oil and water situation there which made for a good deal of spark in the act. For treatments, and he got on very well with Nancy. I think the size. So to begin with on Monitor, Peter was so busy actually getting the general[…]
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