Francis Searle

[…] inaccurate quite frequently. That's notSpeaker 1  37:22  the first time, no, no, no, the credit was Gordon parry, actually, I did ring the BBC on that, and they put out an apology, and so on. Power now, right? So then, now we're still up in Manchester, aren'tUnknown Speaker  37:49 &n[…]

Chili (Dorothy) Bouchier

[…]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 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[…]

Alexander Faris

[…]re late coming from London, so a lot of the audience was held up. So they held back the opening and the show ran late, overran by 11 minutes, and the BBC Home Service as it was then held back the 10 o'clock news for Iolanthe to finish. I thought life has not bee in vain.TD: Who was in the cast of Io[…]

Joan Kemp-Welch

[…]atre and with - as of that time - and your career as an actress. Someone came to you and said, "Commercial television is coming up." Had you done any BBC television as an actress, or as a director?Joan Kemp-Welch: Well as an actress, as I say, the one time I told you, at the Alexandria Palace w[…]

Joan Kemp

[…] said, "Commercial television is coming up." Had you done any BBC television as an actress, or as a director? Joan […]

Robert Beatty

[…]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[…]

Cedric Dawe

[…]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 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[…]

Aida Young (nee Cohen)

[…] I think that if I was starting and I wanted to go into the industry, I would go into television.  I would get trained by a television company - BBC or you know - and then try to be creative, direct if I could or produce, you know, because if you are with a company then you know you are going t[…]
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