James (Jimmy) Gilbert

[…]d just went straight up straight in and never came back so we had to abandon the whole thing, the carrier then, because we were going up and down the channel and this captain had to corne back and look for that wreckage of the piano in case it got confused with the wreckage of the aircraft they were[…]

Phil Windeatt

[…]find work when we finished the film and I saw an advert in the Guardian for a, this was the birth of, thank god for me, this was a breakthrough, that Channel 4 was starting in 1982 and I saw an, and companies were just starting up and employing thirty people in one go and one of them was Diverse Pro[…]

Dennis Main Wilson

[…]uld you believe. We played town halls and things all over Britain, always using a local choir. We were put opposite I think 20 Questions on the other channel and we knocked them out of the ratings and Kenneth Adam was furious. I remember that. But there it is, the all singing Mitchells, superb quali[…]

Clyde Jeavons

[…]on. And David Francis was I think one of the first Television-CJ: He was the first TV Officer, yes.MW: - television was coming a couple or three channels anyway from the late‘50s, a torrent of stuff- CJ: That’s right.MW: How did the Archive approach television then? I mean I know it’s prob[…]
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