Bernard Gribble

[…]to be. But I've done a lot of commercials in my time but that was the most concentrated period. I mean I did a commercial with John Firman bridges on Channel Ferris wheel as memory of the Kennedy film censor. Nice man. James I enjoyed working with him. But when you work in commercials full time ther[…]

Christine Collins

[…] a radio and television, so we could get television sound but we hadn’t got television picture. Anyway, we turned the sound on to the television channel and they were playing music, the BBC were playing music. I mean television used to break down every night in those days so, you know. And we t[…]

Jan Zilliacus

[…]just slide off I couldn’t hold. [Laughter] But anyhow I kicked a very large space, I was going so fastthat I got right out in to the thin part in the channel you see, I was trying to sort of fight my way back to some hard ice. And some, somebody, a young man was walking along on the banks in the, on[…]

Joe Mendoza

[…]he said that he thought it was a great privilege that he'd been selected to run the unit. And that, you know, he regarded himself merely as a sort of channel between us and the authorities, and that he was there to look after us and to protect us from too much ministerial interference, which, in fac[…]

Nancy Thomas

[…]and the environment and all that sort of thing, and I thought it was rather interesting, refreshing. So I suggested to them that we put up an idea to Channel 4, which was just starting, and asked them, Channel 4, to make commitment to design rather than just doing the occasional programme about a de[…]

Len Runkel

[…]there's a place called Run call on the lawn, andUnknown Speaker  5:47  he had, he must have had a political problem, because he fled to the channel ports, left his horse, he took his horse with him, and left his horse and and boarded a ship. Of course, his education, my grandfather's educa[…]

Adrian (Andy) Worker

[…]p;Andy Worker: I - yeah, I gave him quite a lot in the way of facilities. In fact, John was away at the time and I'd already authorised a twenty-four channel mixing table, and I went to John's engineer and said, "Does it have to be twenty-four, can we have twenty-five?" And he said, "Yeah, that's ea[…]

Peter Williams

[…]Kent coalfield. Because coal – if you wish me to expand on that I will… Well, coal had been discovered in Kent when they were looking to build a Channel Tunnel. I think at that time we were on speaking terms with France, and we were trying to get a road connection or a rail connection to travel[…]

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[…]

Erica Masters

[…]use there was absolutely no contact whatsoever with the rest of the world, Kuwait was entirely isolated. The only thing we did have was this terrible channel CNN and that channel, I think, did more to upset my wellbeing than anything else ever! [Chuckles] Because they gave our terrible news all hype[…]
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