Esther Harris

[…]en think how badly they do them I must tell you.Y es.I, I think sometimes ‘Oh you must be able to do better than that’, it’s rather funny.Some of the best ones I’ve seen are on the cables like Granada?Oh some of them are brilliant, some of them, they’re not all bad by any means.And yes, they do[…]

Mary Harvey (Welford)

[…]ameraman.Oh and he was the cameraman, too.Yes. Yes. Tony Havelock-Allan was the production manager.Oh, of course he was, yes. Yes. Athene Seyler, the actress, also came into it, who was delightful, we had a jolly evening meeting in the West End after production and she was sitting next to me and she[…]

Derek Malcolm

[…] it up. I thought, this is just awful. And I suddenly realised I had an hour or two hours to write a piece of The Guardian, which would seal my fate, best of my life helped golf. So I thought there was only one thing I can do. And that's right, funny peasy. And I wrote a funny piece about all the po[…]

Christine Collins

[…]ain extent. I left school when I was fifteen, as soon as I could [laughs] I left school, get rid of that, and I swore I would never say they were the best years of your life, which everyonesaid you would do, but I haven’t up to now.May I interrupt for a moment? You tell us you were born in 1941 […]

Noreen Ackland

[…]an Lawson  0:07  the copyright of this recording is vested in the back to history project. Noreen Ackland feature film editor, wife of Dick best an editor on file number eight. Interviewer Alan Lawson, recorded on the 16th of June 1994. Side onewell, knowing first, when and where were you […]

F E (Ernie) Diamond

[…]e the soundstage during the blackout Yes. And so you had to black the whole studio out to have a real fire no black fireproof it in fireproof blank asbestos blank.Unknown Speaker  42:32  The whole studio was built on it does You see? Did you remember that saysErnie Diamond  42:35 &nbs[…]
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