[…]y wife made friends with another lady that was, mm, she met at the clinic where they went with their babies.Yes.She happened to be the wife of a film director.Mm.A very, quite well known one actually, the name of Francis Glassin [ph 169]Yes.Do you know him?Yes.HARRY COURCHA 16Francis and Cathy.Mm.So[…]
This material is the copyright of the ACTT History Project, Daphne Anstey widow of Edgar, editor with the National Film Board of Canada under her maiden name, Lily, interviewers JohnLegard [JL] and Gloria Sachs [GS], recorded in her home, in Hampstead Garden Suburb, 3 May 1989. Recordist Alan […]
[…] CHRISTINE WHITTAKER 23:00 Freelance. I w as not on the BBC. I was freelance. Between 1974 and 1981 I was totally […]
[…] CHRISTINE WHITTAKER 23:00 Freelance. I w as not on the BBC. I was freelance. Between 1974 and 1981 I was totally […]
[…] wasn't anything to do - I had to find another director. So I did, and I got Bob Asher. I was […]
[…] Project, Daphne Anstey widow of Edgar, editor with the National Film Board of Canada under her maiden name, Lily, interviewers […]
[…]BC which is what I did. The course, what it had actually done was to give you a really good, broad training and then, so I ended up on station at the BBC. I always wanted to work in Operations and they put me in to Communications for some reason despite the fact that I had no particular training in […]
[…], it was 'Road Safety For Children', which I wrote and it was made. But that was instance, straight away, not a woman, you couldn't have a woman as a director.Sidney Cole : I suppose things are a little easier nowadays, but it was a hard thing then.Alan ? : Well it's television that's done that real[…]
[…]sp;you turning over you were saying about brown Mickey? Oh,Speaker 1 0:14 yes. Well, he, although he will, of course, I knew him from the BBC. Knew of him with BBC. I'd never met him, but he was a great friend of Margaret Harper Nelson's. So she rang me and said, do look after Brian. And[…]
[…]possible to do. We, you can do it. They RAF bombed Budapest. Now, we got an area. They bombed it, and it's, I mean, they did, they bombed it was 1000 bomber rate, and there was the now we hadn't got any pictures of the bomb. We got the pictures of the bombers taking off. The bomb was taking off, sil[…]
