[…]u. So I was working in this pub, and I must have had quite a rebellious stage in me. But anyway, I've always believed whatever job you do, you do the best of your ability, and conscientiously. So I was setting up this pub and working there and everything else. And there was I can’t [recall] there wa[…]
[…]echnology of the ‘20s and ‘30s, and so on. We effectively kept the focus on that when it was the film that we chose to select for Memory of the World nomination under the Unesco scheme. 1 hour 15 mins RS: It was also a film that we wanted to do right by in time for the centenary of the war[…]
[…] were working on with him? Can you remember what that film was?Howard Lanning 34:28 A Foreign Field and I'm not sure if you could I won a nomination for for the film. It was absolutely delightful film and my wife's favourite of everything. I mean, she's hated not hate is too strong a wor[…]
[…] I’d rather have been James Bond and he could have bloody Six-Five Special. [Laughter] Anytime, anytime. He was a wonderful James Bond too, the best. MIKE DICK: So tell us a bit about Six-Five Special. It went out live at Lime Grove studios.PETE MURRAY: Live, yes. […]
[…] said, "Yes, love to, I'd love to have a go at that." So she said, "Well there'll be about twenty other boys after the same job. You should wear your best bib and tucker. And get there early." So with a chit, and the papers I had to take, I went to this cinema in Stockwell. Very early, it was still […]
[…]ere or to look after me, I had to get a job. And this was a nightmare, because what could I do? I had an aunt who died young. And I think she was the best of us. She's an argument for the best die young. She had taken a degree at the University of Wales; she was the best educated of us. S[…]
[…]he board of headmasters and so the whole thing was a little bit of a pitch and toss. Some things were very good about it, others very bad. One of the best things about it was that I, at an early age, got accustomed to knowing and taking in my stride a lot of non-English people. I had a Siamese frien[…]
[…] do wish you’d work’. And I’d say ‘I’m doing my best’, I’d got no money so I had to work […]
[…] very good about it, others very bad. One of the best things about it was that I, at an early […]
[…]d changing anything. I mean the worst commercial for that I ever did was for that fat, beastly QI presenter. He’s lost weight, he’s married, he’s the Bafta bloke or he was. What’s he called?PF: Stephen Fry?EH: Stephen Fry! I wasn’t that familiar with him but I did know he was big, and a painkiller c[…]
