[…] days because they both came from Leeds, though Dad was from Manchester. He got the job as trainee Salesman at Liverpool branch and he won one or two awards for being good at sales - he did the north Wales area - and after that he was promoted to sales manager of the Liverpool branch and in 1948 was[…]
[…]hat he was going to be the Chief Executive, did a wonderful interview, at the end of which I said, ‘How marvellous it all sounds, I wish you the very best of luck’, and he said, ‘Well would you like to come and help me start it?’ So I said to him, ‘You can’t possibly mean that, I hate television lik[…]
[…]ays a fuss about the corsets – “oh, they’re too tight, I can’t stand that” – but in the end, they kind of got used to it! (Laughs)RL: You had another award. I suppose we would call it a BAFTA award today, but it was before BAFTAs.JH: Yes, it was for The Wrong Box. In those days, the award for costum[…]
[…]cess in those days. I had already at this stage, I then went to, to live with my parents in Salsbury. And I had wanted to go to try to get into Royal Academy of Dramatic Art to do the stage management course. But my parents, you know, they just couldn't conceive of me doing anything like that. I mea[…]
[…] from the sport point of view. He must have been extremely bright. I knew how much he would have liked to go to the university. And was obviously the best possible material for it, but couldn't. What else did I know? I knew that Granny Balcon must have been rather a saint because the old boy my gran[…]
[…]er and did those at their own studios. So that was an interesting first introduction to television. I think, at that time, also, the one of the other directors who ran the camera shop, he was a keen Methodist. And one of his church friends said, I've got some interesting film, I think it's interesti[…]
