[…]at I was born - over in Bethnal Green. Manny Yospa: What were your parents? Geoff Conway: My father was in the navy - he'd been in the navy for 22 years as a matter of fact. My mother was just a housewife. Manny Yospa: You went to school in Bethnal Green? Geoff Conway: That's rig[…]
[…] JB started at the Northern Polytechnic on Holloway Road, most students were sons of builders; the rumblings of war had started and JB had a distaste for what was happening in Germany; JB applied to join the army and eventually joined a tank regiment, moving through Europe and ending up in Germany a[…]
[…]ay, ‘Gargantua, I must have...’ whatever it was he wanted to have, you know. [laughter] I knew him right to the very end because I used to see him at BAFTA and various places and his voice would come ringing out, ‘Gargantua! How are you?’ And everybody would turn round. [laughter] This very small ch[…]
[…] copyright of this interview lies with the british Entertainment History Project This is Sidney Cole interviewing Ena Baga on 28th February 1990 for the ACTT History Project, David Robson recording.SC: Ena I know you started quite early in your profession as an organist, and an accompanist, in […]
