Peter de Normanville

[…] fairly typical product of Madras education public school, which was actually a Catholic monastery. Which Ampleforth and was due to go to Oxford in 1940. But in fact, events meant that they went into the Air Force in 1940. And beforethe had one of the first ever air type version of the Officers Trai[…]

Virginia McKenna

[…]o children from his previous marriage, and so I was part of a family for the first time, which was lovely. Then, when the war ended, we came back in ’45 and I went back to Heron’s Ghyll. But by then I was fourteen, and I was very happy. I’d grown up, I was readied, I was quite independent by then, a[…]

Chili (Dorothy) Bouchier

[…]ed for a job and got one.I: And you were what? Seventeen or something?CB: No I was 15, when I joined HarrodsI: Ok. So you left school at what age?CB:14I: Yeah. Well most people did, I think, in those daysCB: Well, No, much to the disgust of the headmistress. She said if you don’t finish your educati[…]

Richard Marden

[…]n quite interesting archive material and those actors of those days. Oh,Richard Marden  22:22  indeed. BecauseAlan Legard  22:25  Channel FourRichard Marden  22:27  actors have they hadAlan Legard  22:29  that in the past, haven't they within complete films? T[…]

Jonathan Balcon

[…]ossible connections ...Jonathan Balcon  18:30  Daniel, as you know, I've said to Silver Apples that of course I would raise no objection if Channel 4 want Daniel to do the commentary on this programme they are going to make, from a commercial point of view it seems obvious an obvious thing[…]

Robert M (Bob) Angell

[…]g. And true and true, is anyway, so please set up productions went on and prospered reasonably well, with various sponsored films. And of course, now Channel Four had started up. So independents who had been making sponsored films, of course tried to clamber on the bandwagon, together with people wh[…]

Sydney Samuelson

24 Jun 1988The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. Sidney Samuelson CBE, Entrepreneur, Chairman of Samuelson Film Service. Interviewer, Alan LawsonSide One.  Q: Sidney, when and where were you born?SAMUELSON: I was born in Paddington in Warrington Crescent I […]

Edward Aneurin Williams

[…]forgotten about all the time. The chairman shows it to the shareholders meeting. And it is crap. Yes. Whereas we're still talking about j at a spring channel more often. Yes, yes. Yes. And I believe it's still in the lending library. Is it? Yes, yes. For as long as the rails got a lot. Yes. Yes. Cer[…]

Charles Cooper

[…] in the 1960s) and the negotiations with the BBC and Channel 4 over television and theatrical rights. He details his […]
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