Cedric Dawe

[…]idn't find her difficult at all.R. F. The star's husband. . . wasn’t he . . . 2C. D. Yes, Gary Mills and Anthony Steele and Barbara Murray. The Welsh actor Emlyn Williams.R. F. Where does that leave us? We are in 1951, 40 years ago. What are some of the others now. 'Star of India’. Did you have much[…]

Una Bart (Jennings)

[…]w, he knew where to go, he was with this unit and we found them. CS: What sort of unit was it? The audience. UB: There were gun sights and factories, anywhere were they needed some  entertainment, I didn’t actually do a gun sight, the week were at Oxford we were doing all the munition[…]

David Attenborough

[…]h fish, it would be too absurd. So I thought well in for a penny in for a pound and so will do it as a ballet, can you imagine a ballet. And I got an actor to read it in a highly rhythmic way so it had some, very florid poetic. And then there was a chap called Michel xxx who did ballet for beginners[…]

Leonard (Len) Harris

[…]lar then, I mean well it was irregular. And the film business, well you read studios were closing, you read it in the paper and you obviously thought actors are funny people. So they didn't really discourage me, in fact they helped me, I mean they bought me projectors, a toy projector originally and[…]

Peter de Normanville

[…]raman Sydney Beadle, so long to do Schlieren. Now, anyone can do it more or less in a couple of days. But yeah, it's it's one of the kind of strange factors which can't easily be explained, but seemed to be true in various aspects of life.Sarah Erulkar  37:03  I think was soon after that f[…]

Edward (Teddy) Carrick (Craig)

[…]ng film studios. He had never seen a real film studio, because there weren't any. Stoll Studios down at Cricklewood was only really a very big empty factory. They used to do Smith's Clocks.He and I met. Now he was Ramsay Macdonald's son. He didn't take to politics at all. He seemed to be very friend[…]

Nancy Thomas

[…]we’d have to fit them in somehow, find a studio, find the money. And they were always little short programmes, you know, Bransby Williams, marvellous actor. Cecil was always pressing Bransby Williams upon us at very short notice. And all sorts of other things too, I mean it was an incredible time an[…]
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