Peggy Gick

BECTU History Project - Interview No. 403 [Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: 2002-10-02Interview Date: 1997-04-22Interviewer: John LegardInterviewee: Peggy GickTape 1, Side 1 John Legard: Now Peggy, perhaps you'd like to tell us a little bit about your early life?Peggy Gick: My father wa[…]

Emmanuel (Manny) Yospa

BECTU History Project - Interview No. 347 [Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: 2004-02-26Interview Date: 1995-03-14Interviewers: Charles DrazinInterviewee: Manny YospaTape 1, Side 1 Manny Yospa: ...musical comedy, she had a small part in one, she acted the gypsy really. [Chuckling] And I w[…]

Daphne Shadwell

[…]nobody had noticed. But the critics of course gave me a right panning I think, because it was such a bad play.Yes. Well of course there were only two channels then so everything was reviewed, I suppose.DS: Oh, everything. But then...JPH: Especially by Peter Black who hated Rediffusion.I want to[…]

Gordon Hales

[…]r was tended to be violent, though he was not an alcoholic,Interviewer  3:58  toward the children or towards your mother.Gordon Hales  4:00  Towards my mother less so towards the children, not cruelty in the sense that you read about it now. We were unwanted children, I think. An[…]

Winston (Wyn) Ryder

[…]Denham was a closed shop, well very elite, that’s where all the big films were made, and so on. And the call up.RF: What year would this be now? Mid ‘40s?WR: Yes somewhere middle of the war.RF: Tell me, how did one set about getting a job at that point? Were ATT offering any kind of service, or was […]

Ronald Grant

[…]ame of the interviewee is Ronald grant. The interviewer is Mike dick, on cameras, John Luton. The interview number is eight to nine. The date is the 24th of April 2023. And we're filming at the cinema Museum in Kensington, London, which houses the most remarkable collection of cinema memorabilia col[…]

Daphne Anstey (nee Lily)

[…] skate in the skating park first. He said "Sorry, you have to go immediately. So down I went.What year was this.DA: It must have been about February ‘41 .GS: Can you tell us something about your family background, what your parents did, whether you have any brothers or sisters.DA: I have one brother[…]

Michael Houldey

[…]trum when when, and I've also worked for major companies for BBC for all the most of the ITV companies before that when they were still in existence, channel for independence. And that's, that's, that's who I am. I was born in 1940. So I'm a war baby.Unknown Speaker  1:23  We moved around […]

Christopher Miles

[…];10:09  now you did a film on the marathon as well.Christopher Miles  10:14  Yes, that was a follow up video that I was asked to do by Channel Four more difficult to get interesting mileage out of that really although  you to do miles miles. But agrees with that as well. We went […]
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