[…]oming attractions. [laughter]And forthcoming attractions.And an organ interlude!Oh yes.Right, so you said you were with them for how long?Until about 1956. A little while before that they had split up, because they both had faith in different subjects, so they very amicably agreed to split up and be[…]
[…]don’t know why but even at that stage the thought of teaching and of doing a nine-to-five job anywhere filled me with horror. I wanted to be an actress but, of course, being an actress, and I was always being the lead in all the school plays, from primary school to grammar school. I play[…]
[…]and I believe it was shown at the Empire, Leicester Square, I think it was. It was called 'The Medium'. With Barbara Gott, who was a famous character actress and an actor called Richard Littledale and another well known big character actor, a German...not Frederick Valp[?] but someone like him...Roy[…]
[…] number. And I reversed the charges and they accepted the call. They said come tomorrow morning 10.3-. And I did go at 10.30by then head of programmes, a great man, alas no longer with us ca[…]
[…]was her name...?Hugh Stewart: Switch it off for the moment...John Legard: Switch it off, yeah... [break in recording]Hugh Stewart: I also tried a new actress, Billie Whitelaw, and that was Billie's first big break. And we'll come back to the other name afterwards. Then, when Norman's - Norman came b[…]
[…] Worked on a series around that time called The Sword of Freedom which took place in Medieval Italy and starred Edmund Purdom and one of my favourite actresses, Adrienne Corri. That takes us up to 1960. For the years between 1955 and 60 the eminense behind the throne was Lew Grade who I always found[…]
Danny Livingstone [Start of Recording] [00:58]I: Interview with Danny Livingstone. Interviewer - John Frame. What was your background before you got in to television, Danny? R: A little bit unusual. Went to school. Left school in fifth year with Physics, Maths, you know, a scientific […]
[…] background. rushing around and seeing rushes. Yes, yes. He was neverCharlotte Jennings  15:53  keep Grierson  produced posthaste. post-haste odd 1934. And you produce patent pot.Alan Lawson  16:03  Is that is actually Cavalcanti wasn't the director that I thought. Anyway.Yo[…]
[…]it was when I was at school, well when I was a school I contributed to – my mother wrote for a magazine called the Windsor Magazine before she was an actress with the Old Vic, and then she turned to writing short stories for the Windsor Magazine. And so I’d always, I don’t know, I suppose inhe[…]
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