[…]nbsp;25 saw it as a prestigious show that sold round the world. That did well at film festivals, won, would win the Prix Italia and you know did Bafta; it would win Bafta awards and so it was that side of LWT that they could say: ‘Look we don’t just do LE we’ve got The South Bank Show.’ It was […]
BEHP Interview No 0726t Roger Smither (RS). Transcript. Interviewer: Murray Weston (MW). MW: This interview is No 726 for the British Entertainment History Project. The subject, the interviewee, is Roger Smither, and I’m Murray Weston, interviewing.Now Roger, we start as with most of these[…]
[…]ly using Otter, https://get.otter.ai/interview-transcription/.It provides a basic, but unverified or proofread transcript of the interview. Therefore, the British Entertainment History Project (BEHP) accepts no liability for any misinterpretation of the content of this interview.However, the BE[…]
[…]any of this happened, I had done a series called Edward And Mrs. Simpson for Thames. Yeah. And that was just...  ...it got the Emmy and the BAFTA when I was shooting Baby Makes Six. And Colleen Dewhurst stopped the shoot and said "I want to announce that my director's just won an award". A[…]
[…]the end of 1970 I sort of felt the urge to travel, and I contacted a British motorcycle dealer in Bromley and Ken and asked them if they'd have a job for me, which they said, Yes, we will do we will certainly have a job if you want to come over. So I turned up down on Bromley, all bright eyed and bu[…]
[…]he nation or did that stay in the family?Jonathan Balcon  21:21  It was, I in fact, when I heard that Puttnam was anxious to acquire it for BAFTA, I offered it to the National Portrait Gallery, which I thought was a better venue. And the family did receive money for it. Not a lot, but I me[…]
Interviewer  0:00  This is an interview with Mike Aldridge and is the property of the History Project for BECTU.  The date today is the 15th of September 1997. And, Mike,can I ask you where and when you were born?Michael Aldridge  0:20  I was born in 1941 in East London and […]
[…]an accountant and during the first war we moved out from Erdington to Henley-in-Arden which in those days was a very nice little village between Stratford and Birmingham. But I haven't been to there for some years. And I imagine probably now it's been absorbed with an outer urban sprawl, which now I[…]
