[…]ed that the Royal Television Society became the leading television society in the country, I mean, it was far more important in television terms than BAFTA, which after all, also embraced film. I’m not decrying BAFTA. I think BAFTA do a fine job. But after all it’s film and televis[…]
[…]est childhood the magic of the Cinema had been firmly entrenched in my life. In those days television had not yet begun its inexorable march into the living rooms of the nation and the weekly visit, or in my fortunate case more often than that, to the local movie picture theatre was the form of esca[…]
[…]nnellan: Yes the Irish dimension was completely unknown to us, us I mean my sister I until pretty late on. In 1962 I think it was when we were living in, not my sister and I, when I was married and living in London for a couple of years and one night there was a knock on the front door and wh[…]
[…]n sort of dissolved itself, 1929, my father taught me, we should come back to London. But at the same time, I did commute with Berlin because I loved living there. Made so many friends. It was a very happy time. Equally, I liked London because there was something very charming in those days, not lik[…]
[…]d then my father had a 16mm camera that, he used to take photographs of us as kids.
Mhm.
Which I still have. And...
Will they surface at the BAFTA [inaudible]? [laughs]
I don’t think so. I... I don’t know where they are now. My, my problem from the BAFTA point of view actually is the fac[…]
[…] and itÔÇÖs rather sad it doesn't now. I don't think BAFTA fulfils that particular thing. You mentioned, and we kind […]
[…] can be seen by people still. So Bill’s career then really did move on; he did a wonderful film about poaching called Bloody Ivory (1978) which got a BAFTA nomination.[99] He edited two stories together; he did the work of David Sheldrick against the poachers, because there was such a huge poaching […]
[…]Charles Shadwell...John P Hamilton: You were born in Waterloo, Daphs, the York Lying-in Hospital, the York Road Lying-in Hospital, Waterloo. You were living in Wandsworth.DS: Shall I start again?No, no, no, we can’t keep doing that.DS: No, John P will put me right.JPH: Your parents were living in Wa[…]
[…]le, “Gahd you’re a wonderful people”. So that was it, I was born there and I had a very happy childhood albeit it was like so many people, ten people living in two rooms, spending most of the night killing bugs. But, however in the long run of course I realise that the transition to my later life wa[…]
[…]last four a Morecambe & Wise won it was Ernest Maxim who took over from me. SPEAKER: M21 He won the BAFTA. That was a Bafta award and in fact Yarwood didn't. In fact winit but it was still a very good show. Ernie had done a very good show actually wi[…]
