Philip Bonham-Carter

[…] recruit within the BBC. PB-C: I think that’s true. I think the BBC at that stage had their own union, the ABS. DB: The Association of Broadcasting Staffs, yes. PB-C: That’s right, yeah. But although that was important from my point of view, my recollection is that I thought ‘well I’l[…]

Peter Stuart Mullins

[…]: interior design and decoration, it says here. Daphne’s Restaurant.PM: Yeah, well there was a famous woman called Daphne Rye.DB: Yes.PM: Who was the Casting Director for H.M Tennent, and very powerful: she used to read all the scripts that were going to the West End and would advise ‘Binkie’ Beaumo[…]

Sheelagh Rees

[…]the famous Belfast Telegraph, of which John Cole used to be the editor.Yes.And asking for people and I wrote and I had an interview at Broadcasting House.Where, in, in Belfast?[Laughter]2In Belfast.Right.And I think it was Mrs Haverfield, Mrs Haverfield either interviewed me but or was clo[…]

HP0249 Sheelagh Rees – Transcript

[…] is vested in The BECTU History Project. Sheelagh Rees, television director and producer. Interviewer Norman Swallow. Recorded on the thirtieth […]

Jonathan Balcon

[…]han Balcon  16:01  William Charles, Sir William Charles Crocker was a very famous solicitor, Crocker's, and his daughter Phyllis was Mick's casting director subsequently at Ealing. And anyway, I duly met the B A L C O M B E's in a restaurant in the city, um didn't like them at all and abou[…]

Jack Hildyard

[…] thanUnknown Speaker  6:18  empty handed, as it were,Unknown Speaker  6:22  if you go and seeUnknown Speaker  6:25  the casting department, I think they might findUnknown Speaker  6:30  yourself.Unknown Speaker  6:31  I really didn't know what was go[…]

Peter Proud

[…];had installed somebody whom he thought was a jollygood ......... as Supervising Art Director, Clarence Elder, so I wentto see Elder and recovered my Glasgow accent at once and sai[…]
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