John Ammonds

[…]k I've got time, so I went into the loo and of course, when I heard the music, I thought, Jesus and rushed like mad, but of course they were doing a balance check really and I didn't realise that until I got my trousers on and I remember that distinctley. But that's why again, like why the tune is a[…]

Lindsay Anderson

[…]larly with Peter and myself, whereas Gavin I think knew more about European cinema, more about Marcel Carne or Bunuel, and that went for a very good balance.Norman Swallow: If I remember, I was more or less the same generation, I was much influenced by Sequence, I was working in radio myself, not ye[…]

Philip Donnellan

[…]the for the transmission of the Christian message. It's not meant for for precisely the opposite. If you're going to do this you will have to make a balancing programme.”  So they told me this and I said, “Well I hope you don't think that I'm gonna make it.”  And they said, “Oh no no no no[…]

Sydney Samuelson

[…]pyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. Sidney Samuelson CBE, Entrepreneur, Chairman of Samuelson Film Service. Interviewer, Alan LawsonSide One.  Q: Sidney, when and where were you born?SAMUELSON: I was born in Paddington in Warrington Crescent I think it was. A n[…]

John Schlesinger

[…]retted it. I was really very, very privileged with wonderfully understanding and liberal minded parents who gave us every kind of encouragement. Alan Lawson: You said we John Schlesinger: My siblings. I was the eldest of 5 children and we were 3 girls and 2 boys, and it was a very happy fa[…]

Robert M (Bob) Angell

[…]e any voluntary offers to proofread this and/or other interviews. If you want to help, please contact BEHP Secretary,  sue.malden@btinternet.com.Alan Lawson  0:07  The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU History Project. Bob Angell documentary director, producer, compan[…]

Peter Montagnon

[…] or 24.He'd have looked even younger than that he'd say looked about 21. Very much an undergraduate, or just just just finished. And he, his name was Alan Erwick?. He's now Sir Alan Erwick? or more than that retired, having been the ambassador in the Middle East, etc, etc, etc. For an quite high up,[…]

James (Jimmy) Gilbert

[…] than anything else I've ever done that was the biggest moment. We had nothing absolutely nothing. Then to have this going on was quite extraordinary.Alan Lawson: You were still at the biscuit factory.Jimmy Gilbert: No I'd given it up. I'd given it up about a month beforehand. Again it was this stra[…]

Martin Gibbons

[…]mass and the Pitt television series, which was being broadcast live by the BBC. earlier that week, the final episode had been broadcast live, Ray and Alan incredible writers that they were picked up on how important the show was, and made this comedy half hour where Hancock discovers what he thinks […]
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