[…]d changing anything. I mean the worst commercial for that I ever did was for that fat, beastly QI presenter. He’s lost weight, he’s married, he’s the Bafta bloke or he was. What’s he called?PF: Stephen Fry?EH: Stephen Fry! I wasn’t that familiar with him but I did know he was big, and a painkiller c[…]
[…]en College from 1915 to 1919 I think it was.Wyn Ryder: What did you start as?Reggie Beck: I had gotten what to do in life. I couldn’t start for a long long time. In desperation I turned to somebody, I was very interested in the sound films as they were then, and after a long time trying to[…]
[…]eptember 1933, in Great Yarmouth. I should explain that the males in our family were all called William Something Williams, therefore my father William Edgar Williams was known as Edgar; I am William Peter Williams and was always known as Peter. I have a feeling it’s because my […]
Ron Seeth - Transcript [Start of Recording] [00:00] I: This is an interview with Ron Seeth for the Scottish Broadcasting Heritage Group's Oral History project. The interviewer is Janet McBain and the date is 13 May 2017. Ron, let's start with when and where you were brought up. When w[…]
Danny Livingstone [Start of Recording] [00:58]I: Interview with Danny Livingstone. Interviewer - John Frame. What was your background before you got in to television, Danny? R: A little bit unusual. Went to school. Left school in fifth year with Physics, Maths, you know, a scientific […]
[…]he 27th. In East Sheen, which is near Putney, and near Richmond. My mother and father were living – they’d just got married; well they’d been married for about five years. And er, it was just after the first World War, where my father had just lost a leg with the Canadian army. He’d actually emigrat[…]
[…]bsp; then after that point my education, was down south in England. I went to a boarding school, prep school, Boxgrove School in Guildford, Surrey until 1927, from '22 to '27. And then, after that, in '27, I went to Stowe School, Buckingham. I had been meant to […]
