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[…]omposer. Perhaps you could tell us a little bit about your memories of him and what it was like sort of growing up in a, in a family with such strong cinema connection? Indeed,Speaker 2  0:28  well, I knew him for 40 years, so I knew him extremely well. He was an extremely gentle man. That[…]

[…]ce at that time. Well you continued to nip about!PM: Yeah, well that period – also because the film industry was in a bad state – ACT [Association of Cinematograph Technicians – the trade union. DS] allowed you to move between departments. A kind of distant cousin of mine, Peter Hunt was…DB: An edit[…]

[…]st to get a decent echo was difficult.  But to get any presence on vocals… eventually, as a real special favour, one studio, which was the Paris Cinema in Lower Regent Street, we actually had a Quad pre-amp where you could put top and bass lift on, which they called a pres…  a presence uni[…]

[…]all to play the violin. However, I took to the piano very well and by the age of six, I was quite an accomplished , so I'm told,  classical pianist and a friend of our family, a man called Harry S. Pepper, who at that time, was a producer at the BBC, and he was the producer of the minstrel[…]