Alan Lawson 0:08 The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU history project. Ann Turner arts features television producer, interviewer, Norman Swallow, recorded on the 22nd of March 1995. side oneshouting No, no first where when were you born?Ann Turner 0:42 I was[…]
[…]he HQ base for the Edinburgh International Film Festival and Films of Scotland which acted as a sort of national liaison contact for film companies planning shoots involving Scottish locations. It was with the 1968 Edinburgh International Film Festival that Graham and I became enmeshed with these or[…]
[…]his.Jimmy Gilbert: This was 1943. And I went to the Stage Door Canteen and I met Joan Leslie there, they were all sitting there writing autographs, Deanna Durbin was there, Brian Aherne who was a flying instructor with Thunderbird Field was there, because he was training British pilots.John Taylor: […]
[…]t out of Bill this is this is what I think he gives you. So I said but look there's no scale on the mount or anything he's nothing if there is one I cannot work with him you see about that. See if you can get another camera went to Bill us to beller about this camera but there's no scale on the lens[…]
[…]nd which I think will probably continue indefinitely. I came into the industry, as I suppose a lot of people do, purely by chance. There was no pre-planning, there was no great master plan, although, like most of the youths brought up during the war, and of course immediately after the second war, t[…]
[…]as talking more [faux cockney] “a bit like that darlin’ you know”. And I went there at 11 and in four years, no, in six years, they hammered a) good manners and [b] knowledge into us. The standard of teaching was superb. The sports record of the school was superb. I got the odd medal for athletics a[…]
[…]ation, and I'd be imagining that we're travelling somewhere. That was my first stint at imagination. I might add that I was brought up by an English nanny, who taught me to say Hail Mary, because she was a Catholic. And also, she didn't like me very much. Sh e liked my sister a lot and said &nb[…]
[…]'t been in radio production you were no good for a production job. So they get, I get there so they immediately send me to Harold Clayton. I mean, I cannot imagine how useless I must have been. And he was doing a production of Jane Eyre with The Embassy, Swiss Cottage Embassy Theatre Compa[…]
