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[…]t at all but I was very much in the shadow of it, in the ‘wake’ if you like of The World at War, and always had been fascinated by it. And unlike the BBC for instance, when they were making The Great War series in the mid-sixties, where they only bought a brief licence for the archive all of which e[…]

[…]isit…HF: Right. Well I was doing these clubs. Now one of the clubs was frequented by journalists -I didn’t know it at the time – and reporters at the BBC which was radio in those days. And I went in with my papers as I did once a day, shouting out “Germans in Berlin, Star paper” and a man behind the[…]

[…]gard: He doesn't recall what the film was?Teddy Darvas: No, it was some one-reeler or two-reeler [in about 1908]. And when Robert Rush, the BBC producer, that did the programme about Korda, he asked my father to go and tell this story but father said 'Who wants an ugly old Jew who speaks v[…]

[…]Film Unit, they didn’t expect me to be a member of the Union. But when I did together with a friend, Guy Brenton, who was working at that time at the BBC and I'd known at Oxford, he wanted to make a film about deaf children and he came to me with the idea and said would I help him because I had had […]

[…]  I began to be here a little bit in, in radio, I got a job with a lovely musical called" Charing Cross Road". And was in the papers as the BBC's youngest juveniles that about 16 and a half. And that was really exciting because it was in the St. George's Hall. There weredays that when I wa[…]

[…]The Edwardians (1972-4),[105] and the one I was in was called ‘Darling Daisy’. The costumes were, to be believed, they were so beautiful. As only the BBC can do, I think – certainly in those days – the quality of the production in every way. I mean, even your petticoat, which was never seen; everyth[…]

[…]ard  1:28   I didn't know. I never had any idea. Hadn't the faintest idea? I got into into radio because I joined  BBC Plymouth, 5PY, which was a local radio station BBC, of course, had to be in those days, 1932 ,32 and my father knew the chief engineer of the Plym[…]