Elizabeth Furse DRAFT Tape 1 Side AThis recording was transcribed by funds from the AHRC-funded ‘History of Women in British Film and Television project, 1933-1989’, led by Dr Melanie Bell (Principal Investigator, University of Leeds) and Dr Vicky Ball (Co-Investigator, De Montfort University). (201[…]
[…]s David James. David James, Archie James was a director of the Rank Organisation and a director of Ealing. And he was a very woof-woof little Ex-Wing Commander from the First World War of the Royal Flying Corps who'd emigrated to Kenya, raised a herd of red polls in Kenya, had the most smelling awfu[…]
[…]o, it was a terrible bore. You'd huddle together in the huts, the old pot-belly - no food, no water coming in, nothing at all. So eventually the Camp Commander said, "Right. I've had enough. We can shut the station, close the station down. Those that can get back, I'll give chits so that you can tra[…]
[…]r feed them, house them, transport them, whatever. So they brought them in dribs and drabs, according to when they were called up. So overseas, local commanders were encouraged to get the boy to entertain themselves and Harry Secombe was in an army concert party with Spike Milligan and all that kind[…]
[…]kePB-C = Philip Bonham-CarterPhilip Bonham-Carter: My name is Philip Bonham-Carter. The date today is the 5th October2018. I was born in – at the end of the war, in 1945. Darrol Blake: Where? PB-C: I was actually born in Gerards Cross in Buckinghamshire. My parents at that stage, rig[…]
[…]any anyway. So the discharge is all a few 100. And then about three or four days later, we will call it up into the army. I tried to draw in the army commander Corps and the army photographic unit. But didn't get into that. I probably the reasons why I was fairly fit. I used to belong to the Kodak G[…]
This recording was transcribed by funds from the AHRC-funded ‘History of Women in British Film and Television project, 1933-1989’, led by Dr Melanie Bell (Principal Investigator, University of Leeds) and Dr Vicky Ball (Co-Investigator, De Montfort University). (2015).BECTU History ProjectInterview n[…]
[…] transcript has been produced automatically using Otter, https://get.otter.ai/interview-transcription/.It provides a basic, but unverified or proofread transcript of the interview. Therefore, the British Entertainment History Project (BEHP) accepts no liability for any misinterpretation of the […]
[…]en Murray (1912-1983) was an English actor remembered for his extensive work in radio plays and particularly for his role as ‘Number One’/ Lieutenant Commander Murray in The Navy Lark (1959-77).[115] ‘Cheap in August’ is an adaptation of Graham Greene’s short story of the same name, which appeared i[…]
