[…]36, in Thornton Heath, I think it was.SF: Is that Surrey?It’s sort of south London, yes, on the way to Croydon. It wasn’t necessarily quite so mucha part of London as it is now of course. But in fact, the sort of formative years which were really the war years, the bits I remember when I first began[…]
[…]es of childhood or school?John Aldred: I had a normal education in private schools. I did not go on and receive any higher education because at that particular moment in time there was a slight financial crisis in the family and I had to leave school and go out and earn some money. But while I was a[…]
Sandy Ross - Transcript [Interviewer is Janet McBain, Date of Recording 14 07 2018] [Start of Recording] [00:00]I: This is an interview with Sandy Ross for the Scottish Broadcasting Heritage Group's Oral History project. The interviewer is Janet McBain, the date is 14th July 2018 and […]
[…]riter Director. The interviewer is Glyn Jones. The date is the first of May 2002. And this is side one. Have you had an extensive career in the particularly in the sponsored documentary field, we probably will call it. I know in fact that you must have filmed in pretty well every continent in t[…]
[…]egot no memories of it, we lived in Stamford Hill till I was three years old and then moved to Hendon when I was three. And then of course, the war started when I was ten years old and we, I mean very funny in a way what people did at the beginning of the war, I can remember this quite clearly. Firs[…]
[…]mber about those years most was, because it was in the papers and in the magazines there was a very great deal about Hitler and the rise of the Nazi Party. And the interest in that was extraordinary, I as a young Jewish kid felt quite persecuted at school. They would institute things like let's chas[…]
[…] Scout, a little magazine, you may remember - and in it I saw an advertisement one day with a handsome young man in naval uniform with a ball of the earth, with his foot on the ball, the world at your feet, and I fell for him. I applied to the Marconi Company and they took me on as a boy to learn wi[…]
[…]sequently did, with show business, theatre, or any such ...? Adam Dawson 1:30 No, not at all. My father was a chartered accountant. My mother was a very talented woman. She used to like most people she used to sing and entertain. […]
