[…] January 1992. DISC 1 Side One Track 1NS: First of all Maggie, when and where were you born?MD: Newcastle on Tyne 1922. I am the same age as the BBC (both laugh).NS: What kind of schooling did you do?MD: I went to school very early, I think you would call it elementary school in those days.It w[…]
[…]a century. I know  you started off in the camera department became a cameraman. And that you ended up as the producer of those specialised  films 50 years is quite time, how did it all begin?John Wiles  0:43  Well, I suppose it began really with my, as a kid I had an interest in […]
[…]g the films, was, publicity. It seemed to me, there’s no point in making the damn things if nobody’s going to watch ’em. So I always made sure at the BBC, I rang up the publicity people and I always made sure that the press got copies and all that stuff. And, chatted people up and tried to get showi[…]
[…]Lom [uncredited but present. DS] and Peter Ustinov were in the cast.Robert Beatty: A very small part whatever it was, because I might have joined the BBC at that time, I was working at night and living in London, eventually I got moved out to Evesham after the BBC got bombed, but that was towards th[…]
[…]ays did Shakespeare in the garden every summer because we had an English teacher who herself was an actress and, and did a lot of broadcasting on The BBC in, in Aberdeen. So I played Portia in The Merchant Of Venice when before I left school.And did that continue at university?Yes, it did, yes.Moira[…]
[…]eeping of Euston Films..." I was in seventh heaven, right? And then one day, as you know, what happened was that Brian Cowgill heard rumours that the BBC were having trouble in renewing their contract for Dallas with the Americans, the price was going up. So, without telling his own chairman apparen[…]
[…]h, [with Siler??] I played in a play at Wyndhams. And I got married. SC: When did you get married? DM: 1934. And that year Bobby joined the BBC. And Noel Marshall sent for us and said ‘I’m doing a revue, will you work on it?’ And we’d never done anything like that before. So we said ‘Certa[…]
