[…]e particular night we went to the station, and the policeman said “We’re full. But go to Lincoln’s Inn Fields but go now.”, because we could hear the bombers coming and she put me on her back – she was a tiny wee thing and she put me on her back, and she ran like a [horse] in the Derby or something,[…]
[…]e was saying that he was involved in the, in the Art Department. He’s a Vice, Vice-Chair I think now and he was involved in the Art Department in the BBC. Like he used to come on home in uniform from the RAF and, mm, and go to work in the BBC , and he was saying that some of the people he worked wit[…]
[…]didn’t join until he came out of the Army, he was Ernest Irving’s assistant, until Ernest Irving retired, and then Doc Mathieson took over as Musical Director. Ernest Irving was the top man, then there was Doc Mathieson who was his assistant later on, there was Jimmy Crawford who was the librarian a[…]
[…]ew. So we were thrown out and I went back to sea in the Merchant Navy until 1925, after which time I was rather tired of the sea, so I applied to the BBC. They took me on as an engineer, and I was with them for three years. Then I got involved in a squabble, nothing to do with me at all, but I put m[…]
[…] time I've ever had that kind of disloyalty from a director. So although I had George with me as gaffer on […]
[…]n how to become a lady soldier (laughing), which I was never very good at. I don’t think I did anything very brilliant, but I ended up being Corporal Harris. Just at the end of the war when I was in London, I used to go to the overseas club dancing on Thursday nights with my friends. You stood aroun[…]
