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[…] tight gingham, broderie anglaise and denim for Christie in the comedy The Fast Lady (1962), as well as the mod-style […]

Roy Fowler, initiator of the ACTT (now BECTU) History Project, looks back “He’s film barmy!” Thus would my bemused Mum […]

Behp 0698 T Anne Fleming. Transcript. This transcript was originally produced automatically using Speechmatics, and has been edited by David Sharp for the British Entertainment History Project.This transcript has been edited to remove hesitation and repetition where it was felt that the speech […]

[…]all venues in many of the large cities started showing these newsreels telling you what was happening in the world. And then there were cartoons, and comedy films, and interest films, films about landscape and different parts of the world and so on. And the programme usually lasted an hour. So it wa[…]

[…]edited. So I said, I really I said what I say primarily, the, all the things, we're lazy jokes, were all too long. You needed to, you know, if it's a comedy, you need to roll on, roll on roll on. And she wasn't actually very funny in it. I'm not a great, a lot of great fans. Probably not the right t[…]

[…]e them the Studio for four hours and they got filmed so it was called Box Set. So, people like Beverley Knight and Nick Cave and my favourite, Divine Comedy, amazing people came to take up that opportunity! So that ran for quite a few years and it was pretty cost-effective because all we did was man[…]

[…] There's not many. It's Agnew and there's not many of us around. That was a good thing but I was doing this thing, as a Freelance, it was down at the Comedy Club over in Glasgow and one of the comedians was a guy called, I think it was Garry Agnew, right, and my ears pricked up. And he had a call sh[…]

[…]have been convinced, I quite like that fact of, of, you know, Reg Varney [ph] show one night, Please Sir, there was this big think of getting popular comedy, popular sitcoms, massively popular, somewhat crap and racist now but some were, you know, there was a real, there were mass audiences, you kno[…]

BEHP 0720 T RENÉE GLYNNE TranscriptBritish Entertainment History Project – Interview No. 720 26th January 2018INTERVIEWEE – RENÉE ALMA GLYNNE INTERVIEWER – DARROL BLAKE Transcriber – Linda Hall-ShawDARROL BLAKE: So, can you tell me your name and[…]