[…]up there, I used to go up about once a month, this was all before the war, long before the war.LW: At Alexandra Palace.WT: No, just a room behind the BBC. A good long time before that, when was Alexandra PalaceDR: 1936WT: It was a good long while before that.DR: That would have been in his 30 line e[…]
[…] the war we were at. In.SPEAKER: M8Marriage in Dover court which is a mile away from Harwich. We were in many ways in the firing line from the German bombers. They were on their way to London and came over us and we were very much in the firing line. In fact on two occasions I was nearly my family w[…]
[…]he sound director was Sash Fischer, another legendary figure who used to wear a dagger inside his socks, I don't know what for, perhaps to attack the director. The picture was finished and we were dubbing it and we didn't know this at the time but the director, George Cukor was an absolute terror at[…]
[…]being reduced to voices, and then finally they were an anonymous voice, which was a just a linking narrator, of which I did a couple, but not for the BBC. I mean Dispute was done like that, but that was a strange mixture because I actually had the protagonists talking to camera, as a sort of linking[…]
[…] it though, I'm sure, you know. Anyway, after about two years of this, or a little less, you know, I thought this, this isn't really why I joined the BBC. And I used to see on the notice board notices asking for people for television, because it was six, you know, ’46 you see.’46.It was starting up […]
[…] with Julie Harris by Jo Botting, 2002. Transcription available http://old.bfi.org.uk/features/interviews/ harris.html (accessed 24 September 2015). This anecdote actually points towards […]
[…]s the Chair. There was- and the radio one came up and I put myself forward for election. There was about six or seven candidates. One of them was Sue Harris. I won the election. So, I went on full, I officially could have had full-time release. I never actually took it, because I told you, know what[…]
[…]und the studio.Roy Fowler: Well yes, the feel and also some of the characters. These were the years when Hitchcock was more or less a journeyman director...E.M. Smedley-Aston: Well Hitch left about the first or second year to go to Gaumont. And he did - he took with him a very extrovert ch[…]
[…] and went to tactical film and said, well, there's your film, there's only one thing I've got to ask and that is that john hollows name remains on as director. And Ireally thought it was such an injustice and quiteapart from this would have been nonsan absurd to have my name martyrs. Who the hell wa[…]
[…]y actually, you know, I would like to, you know, I like to doing it because I know I can do it better. And, you know, one, obviously, one helps every director. Ones with, to a certain extent. When one has a, you know, one's obviously bubbling over the idea. Someone tells an idea. So if one, you know[…]
