Carmen Dillon

[…] Spanish railways.Sidney Cole: Ah.Carmen Dillon: And he went on being to do with railways all his life.Sidney Cole: He was in that great tradition of British railway engineers.Carmen Dillon: Yes.Sidney Cole: Yes.Carmen Dillon: And so - he was all right. And then, when the two children were born, the[…]

Peter Lamont

[…]g Life in black-and-white.PF: What was that experience like then, working on This Sporting Life, obviously being now hailed as a classic of British cinema and the New Wave?PL: Well Lindsay Anderson was a lovely man, and I was set decorator, and of course it was great because I knew quite a[…]

Penny Woolcock

Martin Spence  0:00  Okay, this is a British Entertainment History Project interview with Penny Woolcock. It's the 24th of April 2019. We're at Penny's home in north London.Camera's being operated by Nick Gilbey. Interviewer is Martin Spence. And the interview is copyright of the British E[…]

Doug Allan

[…] I read an article in a dive magazine by a diving officer who had been in the Antarctic and I thought that sounds an interesting job, so I wrote to a British Antarctic Survey who told me about the job. Sent me an application form, and I filled it in, and then promptly failed the interview. It was gr[…]

Yvette Vanson

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 […]

Roy Fowler

[…]ctor who ever lived.  One would be there on the set and listen to him, a Hungarian who was not very good at English giving line readings to British actors, you know it was a bit of a revelation and they would look at him but they did do their best.  I don’t know if you know much […]

F E (Ernie) Diamond

[…]tter, https://get.otter.ai/interview-transcription/.It provides a basic, but unverified or proofread transcript of the interview. Therefore, the British Entertainment History Project (BEHP) accepts no liability for any misinterpretation of the content of this interview.However, the BEHP wants t[…]
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