[…]well since and that was a long time ago. She eventually took a job as a buyer, property buyer. Although she is freelance, she is principally with the light">BBC.R. F. Ah, well that is a very satisfying thing anyway.C. D. She goes under the name of Dorothy Elliott. That was her married name. Apart from that[…]
[…]ed to go. It was upstairs, I’m not sure if it wasn’t called the Lyric Club. I was asked to do a broadcast at St George’s Hall, well when I got to the light">BBC, they looked at the performers’ list, they said everything in St Georges has been cancelled - so far as I know, I had my rehearsal there-, I thoug[…]
[…] or anything, it's just that it became a possibility in a way that I'd never thought, you know, that, that there was before, you know, looking at the light">BBC, and so on, you know, and in those times very, very difficult to get into TV, you had to have a union ticket. And most of the directors who were w[…]
[…]on’t get a lot of parts with an accent.SF: No, of course, not.So he’d gone and taken elocution lessons.SF: Yes.And risen through the ranks-ish in the light">BBC.SF: Yes.Started as a floor manager.SF: Yes.And worked in the light">BBC. So when I met him he’d just made a little film, I think I was about... How old w[…]
[…]l accent in those days what?CB: I should think it had a tinge of Fulham in it, which I tried to eliminate. But by the time talkies came I was talking light">BBC posh like everybody elseI: Well, one had to I suppose, didn’t one, the rather accent or the West End accent. Did you consciously, you must have co[…]
[…]nd he'd been in it on the stage, you know, he should know the part! [pause] Now what was I going to say? Oh I believe that 'The Astonished Heart' the light">BBC are doing a television play of it I think. They're doing a series of plays by Noel Coward as a season I think and that's one of them. I'd like to […]
