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[…]to help, please contact BEHP Secretary,  sue.malden@btinternet.com.Wilfred Brandt (WB)Laboratory Engineer (Technicolor)BECTU No.225Interviewers: Alf Cooper (AC), Alan Lawson (AL), Len Runkel (LR). Bernard Pope (BP) is credited for Side 3.Date 11/11/912 Tapes Side 100:00:00 – 00:11:10 Born […]

[…]940. And I had fought for five years or I hadn't fought very much I mean no soldier in the second war fought very much but I'd served for five and a half years and then suddenly one had to ask oneself ‘Where do I belong?’ Now obviously in a certain sense I belonged absolutely to England but at the s[…]

Len Lawrence Laboratories, Technician, Editor (Stoll, Humphries, Technicolor)BECTU No.81Interviewers Alf Cooper (AC) & Alan Lawson (AL)Date: 12/04/1989 Side 100:00:00 – 00:03:58 Introduction; early life; schooling; 11 plus exams; first job in a fruit shop; working in an ironmongers.00:[…]

[…] As a small lad I mean I was in a in a in a range of 1 to 10 10 being the brilliant one worst I suppose you put myself at a shady four or four and a half no more than that I really wasn't very good at school I was I like athletics I go to the soccer team the cricket team and we had running you know […]

[…]se programmes. I mean the cheek of it, I hadn’t got any training or anything. You had to write the scripts, the links for it, and I met Jean Metcalfe there, they were the announcers: there was Jean Metcalfe, Sheila Stewart – who was on there with Sheila?JPH: Barbara McFadyean.DS: Yes,[…]

[…]hem. The ones I remember were Jack Radcliffe and Dave Willis because they were my favourites. And in the summertime they used to do the 5 past 8 and half past 8 reviews which were absolutely packed out every night of the week. and that was the Scottish comedians again. But they had English directors[…]