Julia Cave

[…]m everybody there and from the excellent editors and the whole, whole thing was a great experience for me.  And of course, we won, as a team the BAFTA award. Norman Swallow: Which year? Sorry the usual question.Julia Cave: Well I can’t do years you see.  It’s whatever year BBC2 1[…]

Michael (Mickey) Hickey

[…]tart the First World War off! I was born and my mother, at the time, in the country, where there was no money. And she decided after a while that the best thing she could do was to come to England and get a job and sort me out afterwards, and my grandmother bring me up, anyway which she did. And so […]

Derek Threadgall

[…]e were signing at 16 years old. Bearing in mind the age of adulthood was still 21 it wasn't 18 or 21. So we were signing our lives away virtually the best part of our lives away. Going in at 16 for twelve years which meant we came out at 28 or 30 29 nine and someone raised a question in Parliament a[…]

Christopher Miles

[…]ges are facile  today are not interesting.Rodney Giesler  31:25  Well, they are debased. I mean, there's nothing I like bores decision BAFTA. For a member screening and the screen where the lights go down goes out to the full huge, they will see the whole thing. For instance withChris[…]

Ann Turner

[…]w. Huw was even easy to cross out and do it and so it was a really have a great success. And what was even more extraordinary was having a showing at BAFTA for her in the Little Theatre and her family. And, you know, we actually, we didn't ask for it but BAFTA had the railings that are in front of B[…]

Edward Aneurin Williams

[…]most important English youngish English composers of that time, with a reputation as a as a bit of the avant garde and so on. And he tried to get the best known conductor of the day to do it. Now come, Sergeant, and Sergeant had said he wouldn't do it because jobs were pre disrupted what needs to be[…]

Rosamund John (Silkin)

[…]d pick a waltz because it's easier to move around to so I brought a song called ‘It's a Sin to Tell a Lie’. In the meantime I'd met a girl who was my best friend for a long time. Now I met her in a production that Robert Donat did I must have done that between the two seasons at Stratford. Robert Do[…]

Charlotte Jennings

[…]f it's like a chairman, can I ask you just a chairman, can I ask you a question then you can respond to people off it's happened the other evening at BAFTA You know, when this Kathy Burke was being interviewed to begin with, nobody asked me questions, that huge audience and after and then Derek &nbs[…]

Jack Gold

[…]of the new techniques - hand-held cameras, stocks, etc - meant that you could actually record an event or a situation, and think afterwards about the best structure for it. Didn’t mean to say you wouldn’t have an idea, or a narrative idea in your head, but it left things much more fluid, which were […]

Cyril Pennington-Richards

[…]is garage had a marvellous workshop, it had everything, milling machines, everything in it. And he let me have the service of his foreman, he was the best engineer I've ever met in my life, and the whole workshop for a pound a day, so all I had to do was pay for the materials. So we stripped this ca[…]
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