[…] before I went to North London we went to Wales to escape the blitz in 1940.Where were you, where were you living then?We lived in Hendon, most of my childhood in fact. And in fact we, we lived, but I’vegot no memories of it, we lived in Stamford Hill till I was three years old and then moved t[…]
[…] am Russian, but I grew up absolutely being an English child with no foreign languages around me or anything foreign. […]
[…] from the Russians Countess Alice had actually taken this, this child of refugees, the refugees had died, and taken her […]
[…] I said to him ‘You know I was such a child really when I worked there and knew them all’, […]
[…] the depression and the war and I was on only child. He really wanted me to have a secure future […]
[…]Speaker 1 0:12 I was born in 1933, in Westcliff on sea on the Essex coast.Simon Rose 0:23 And tell me a little bit about your childhood, your family and your schooling.Speaker 1 0:32 Well, for the first six years, it was the sort of idyllic life because living rig[…]
[…]y. And I travelled to Ireland and got a taxi there, and on arriving, just before, in the middle of the lane between these tall grasses there was this child’s car, you know a little toy drive-it-yourself car. So we got up and moved it and got back in and it was this huge empty house with and they had[…]
[…]Speaker 1 0:12 I was born in 1933, in Westcliff on sea on the Essex coast.Simon Rose 0:23 And tell me a little bit about your childhood, your family and your schooling.Speaker 1 0:32 Well, for the first six years, it was the sort of idyllic life because living rig[…]
[…]am Harper was my, was my PA. And I had a very good ASM, whose name escapes me suddenly who’s Joan Ward, not Joan, something Ward, she’s a producer in Children’s I think now.Yes. And, and Sue, who was in fact the assistant. And we just had, we had an office in, in Threshold House and it was in the wi[…]
[…]e there and he’d enjoyed Fortunes of War so much he was going to take me out to lunch, well in his eighties. And I said to him ‘You know I was such a child really when I worked there and knew them all’, but I just used to think ‘well aren’t they lucky to, to be in London and England away from all th[…]
