Waris Hussein

[…] and the BAFTA when I was shooting Baby Makes Six. And Colleen Dewhurst stopped the shoot and said "I want to announce that my director's just won an award". And I wasn't there to accept it. I've never been there to accept anything! Darrol Blake  1:09:14  Have you bypassed H[…]

Margaret Dale

[…] television business. Show business goes on. Television has to change its schedules when something happens.Well in 1963, I was very pleased to get an award. It’s now called BAFTA, but in those days it was called SAFTA.NS: The Guild of television Producers and Directors. This became the Society and F[…]

Louise Willcox

[…]lcox. Neo Jackson. I was born in Bolton in the Northwest on the 12th of April 1958. And nationality. You're British? Yeah. Okay. And have you won any awards in your your long career? Well, I was part of the team that won a special craft BAFTA for spring watch in 2011. I also won the team award. Well[…]

Betty Willingale

[…]im how, how did he, why, why had he come in to television, had he written something? And he said no, he’d written a book of short stories he’d won an award for, Somerset Maugham Award called Tomato Cain and apparently Michael Barry had read it and thought from it that he could see this man knew some[…]

Alexander Faris

[…] Bell and Judy Dench, directed by Michael Truman. And then it wasn't long before we came to Upstairs Downstairs, that Was 1972. And that music got an award, the Ivor Novello Award for the Best Theme from TV or Radio in 1975 and 1976. I had to wait for one when there wasn't one better.TD: Tell me abo[…]

Diana Morgan

[…]hen I did a film I liked very much, called Hand in Hand. For Columbia. And it was a simple little film but I was very, very pleased. And it won eight awards. What they were I don’t know because the producer woman took them all to America with her and died. I haven’t been able to find them, because o[…]

Nancy Thomas

[…]m 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 no: 181Interviewee: Nancy ThomasInterviewer: Norman Swallow/Alan Lawson [NB: Identities not cl[…]

Johnny Speight

[…]f there not being, I looked on it more as a prison than any place to want to go to. I wondered.what I had done wrong that I had to be sent there like for these hours and it put me, it set my back against learning I think to some extent. And then in later life looking back, reading somet.ning Bernard[…]

Bessie Bond (née Span)

[…] permission of the BECTU History Project (http://www.historyproject.org.uk/). Copyright of interview material is vested in the BECTU History Project (formerly the ACTT History Project) and the right to publish some excerpts may not be allowed.1Bessie Bond - tape 1 of 3This is Bessie Bond interviewed[…]
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