Mary Orrom

[…] didn't ever go back to London, to live, for a considerable number of years. Well, wartime experience, it was, it was pretty favoured really, I mean, living in, first of all in South Devon and going to Cambridge for holidays. I suppose one started with a very much more free existence than is imagina[…]

Mike Fentiman

[…] the fact that it was possible Learn to apply and make programmes Mike Fentiman  25:02  that apart from sort of general publicity, and you know, radio time and the press and so on initially, what we did was the first day we I mean, I'll associate myself with it from the very[…]

Phyllis Dalton

[…]omething called Fragment of Fear, that was a modern one with Gayle Hunnicutt and David Hemmings. Then I did The Hireling, for which I got a BAFTAaward, that was twenties. The book isn’t twenties, I think the book’s forties, but I thinkthey were right to make that twenties, I think that wor[…]

John Hogarth

[…] limited hours during the day and cinema-going was still something that most people did at least once a week and sometimes twice. So there was a good living to be earned.Rodney Giesler : Did you have to fight hard to get your pictures in.John Hogarth : Yes, very hard, yes, because not only were we f[…]

Hugh Attwooll

[…]r photographing the beginning of the Pirbright camp. The military camp that started in about what the end of 38 and it was a you know, we scratched a living I think we were earning about we gave ourselves a couple of quid a week. I think I lived at the London Scottish hut at Bisley because I was a m[…]

Rosamund John (Silkin)

[…] and when there's not set on the stage it’s the size of an aircraft hangar and I sang this song and whistled round the stage. And I may say I was now living in that club and they had a practice room because it was all for theatre people. I persuaded somebody to play the song for me and when they hea[…]

Charles W. Smith

[…] remarried. And I thought I was a bit in the way, so I decided not to go to university but instead to go to London and try and make my way in the big city. INTERVIEWER: All right, so what happened when you got to London? CHARLES SMITH: Well, I worked for a while for the Prudential Assuranc[…]

Lindsay Anderson

[…]n, and that is where they met and got married. Not altogether happily I don t think. There was a first son who died, a second son, my brother, who is living, who was an airline pilot and also flew in the War, and myself was born in India.And my parents divorced, do you know I can't even remember qui[…]

Kitty Marshall (Hermges)

[…]and read to them and that sort of thing. I did all sorts of different odd things, you know, while I was trying to find proper work.And were you still living at home at that point?No, because some of these took me away, I mean like being a housemaid, took me away. So it varied. Anyway, where am I?Thi[…]
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