[…]actory, which was in Stoke Poges which was very close, and within a year she had been made a director of the company, and so it was the obvious place for them to live, so- DB: Why was she made a director of the firm? PB-C: Because my grandfather had actually started the company during the […]
[…]erInterviewee: Dicky Leeman Tape 1, Side 1Rodney Giesler: This is an interview with Dicky Leeman, by Rodney Giesler, in Bognor Regis. It's for the BECTU Oral History Project and it's recorded on Friday 22nd September 1995....When you were born and a bit about your family history.Dicky Lee[…]
[…] really art directors film or designers films. Not many. No. No. And you know it's sad. It's like the Oscars. How can room with a view get the design award which was all made on location. You know and yet by the same token there were films being made with fantastic sets.SPEAKER: M34You know and you […]
[…]f healing. I mean professionally. I mean professionally.Speaker 1 21:05 Well, I mean I was learning all the time, but the great thing and award that I got all for all those years was I got to know so so many artists. I was not aware till I crossed into television, just how many artists p[…]
[…]claimerThis transcript has been produced automatically using Otter.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 BE[…]
[…]n they did come to London and respectively had my parents. So sometimes I think I am Russian, but I grew up absolutely being an English child with no foreign languages around me or anything foreign.(TIME 01.09)DARROL BLAKE: And where was that?RENÉE GLYNNE: It began ... I was born in Hackney overlook[…]
[…]er learned from my mother when I saw her was to marry a rich man. It was rather typical of the sort of mores of that period - there was no other hope for women. She didn't even say have a career, or anything like that. She just used to say, marry a rich man, that's all. I rather resolved to marry a […]
[…]as long since deceased which is another story altogether.Roy Fowler: Just to touch on that was he an aviation pioneer?Reg Sutton: Yes, he had several awards and he had half a sheet on the front of the Times on the day he was killed. He entered a race on the lake at Toronto, what's the name of the la[…]
[…] in television: the late great Desmond Davies, he of the award, cast me in a TV play to go out […]
[…] Fellow two or three years ago which is the highest award you can get in Rotary for services. This was […]
