[…]s at every subject except arithmetic. I was in my own words a genius at arithmetic and I won five scholarships and eventually ... because I was not a British subject I couldn't get the scholarships. But I went in for one when I was fourteen and a half called the Trade Scholarship because my school l[…]
[…] pitched their tents, took up their tents and went to so and so. We had a very long and quite successful tour under those conditions. In May 1940 the British Council sent us to Holland. We were there when The Germans decided to join. So that was my only experience of being a refugee. Quite exciting![…]
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[…] disintegration of a nation. Had an affinity with Luftwaffe prisoners. British treatment of the war as a sport. An attitude […]
BRITISH ENTERTAINMENT HISTORY PROJECT INTERVIEW No 805 PETER WILLIAMS (PW) INTERVIEWED BY MARTIN SMITH (MS) RECORDED at SWALE MEDIA ARTS CENTRE, SITTINGBOUNE KENT on 03 November 2021 Commenced 12.30pm; total duration 2h 47m PART 1TDF 14646_01 (RE-START AT 0[…]
[…] that probably was a wise move actually because it just meant that it could be done by other people as well as…I mean, your project is defined around British films, and the contribution to British films so, in that sense what happened over in America isn’t so relevant I guess, but there were variati[…]
