[…]ie Diamond  35:00  writing his memoirs, and we had a long time because he knew everybody. And because he's the grandson of Ellen Terry, the actress. Yes, we'll admit it. I edited Midshipman easy.Unknown Speaker  35:14  Did you know it's built up in the scannerErnie Diamond  […]
British Entertainment History Project INTERVIEW NO.712 INTERVIEWEE – NEVILLE WORTMANINTERVIEWER – DARROL BLAKE Transcriber – Linda Hall-Shaw NEVILLE WORTMAN: I am Neville Wortman. I was born on the 28th March 1932 in London.DARROL BLAKE: And what sort of family […]
[…]ery great interest because he came along, he featured a little later in in part of my career. Lois Singer  4:57  That was in middle of 1956, I was quite happy doing what I was doing. And as I said, I found it far less arduous than being a PA and doing the whole programme. Then the ACT[…]
BECTU History Project - Interview No. 294 [Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: 2004-03-15Interview Date: 1972Interviewer: Jim ShieldsInterviewee: Maurice AskewTape 1, Side 1 Jim Shields: This is a recording made in 1972 at the Gate recording theatre at Elstree, of Maurice Askew, who was th[…]
Norman Swallow  0:04  The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. Richard Levin, head of television design for the BBC interview on normal swallow, recorded on the third of September 1991. side one okay. First of all, when and where were you born?Richard Levin &n[…]
[…]s, you know, blue collars and white collars?It wasn‟t organised.No.Until, mm, was it 1953 when we had this lockout?When we had the lockout, Fifty-four wasn’t it?Was it Fifty-four?Fifty-three, Fifty-four, I’m not sure.DAPHNE ANCELL 13Yes, but it wasn‟t organised until then.But right from the wor[…]
[…]s it was a great reward for what we were doing.Stephen Peet  28:34  Yeah, now, I, my second or extended contract came to an end in early in 1956. I think the few of us who had started getting we'd had a single three year contract, and then an extension, I believe you were the same. And tha[…]
[…]photography developed and perhaps your first experiences with colour photography. Perhaps as an amateur in your early life.CM: Well I always had a Box-Brownie so I was a keen photographer even as… when very young but my first real experience and learning was when I left school and when I was about s[…]
[…]ry much going almost back to my previous existence of going into the office at 9 o'clock and working until lunchtime. By then - and I'm talking about 1956, something like that - the demarcation between 'them' and 'us' had blurred somewhat and there was no longer the clocking in mechanism and busines[…]
This recording was transcribed by funds from the AHRC-funded ‘History of Women in British Film and Television project, 1933-1989’, led by Dr Melanie Bell (Principal Investigator, University of Leeds) and Dr Vicky Ball (Co-Investigator, De Montfort University). (2015).BECTU History ProjectInterview n[…]
