[…] copyright of this interview lies with the british Entertainment History Project This is Sidney Cole interviewing Ena Baga on 28th February 1990 for the ACTT History Project, David Robson recording.SC: Ena I know you started quite early in your profession as an organist, and an accompanist, in […]
[…] 1887, and I wonder if you can tell us something about your early days.Maurice Elvey : I will, but I don't like to remember them very much. I try and forget, but I suppose the experiences I underwent formed me, for good or ill. I never went to school. My early life, my young life, my childhood life,[…]
[…]were instrumental making outstanding training films. One of the most famous films in this category was third Sam narrated by Stanley Holloway. It was awarded the British Film Academy top award to be the best training film anywhere. This is interesting. Aside, nothing to do with film making, but I go[…]
[…]ly using Otter, 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 BE[…]
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[…]d in 1952 and STV started in 1957 and I can remember arriving in Paisley to do a show with Jack Milroy and I originally came to work with Jack Milroy for five weeks only as an experiment to see whether we got on well or not and I was acting as a feed to him and became a comedy feed, in other words a[…]
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[…]he 27th. In East Sheen, which is near Putney, and near Richmond. My mother and father were living – they’d just got married; well they’d been married for about five years. And er, it was just after the first World War, where my father had just lost a leg with the Canadian army. He’d actually emigrat[…]