JOHN SCHLESINGER Feature film director Interviewer Norman Swallow, recorded on 30 March 1994 Copyright of the recording is vested in BECTU History Project SIDE 1, TAPE 1 Norman Swallow: Let's go back to day one, when where you born and where. John Schlesinger: I was bor[…]
[…] been in the MacRobertson race to Australia. He was in everything. He was the first man ever to land a plane on a ship at sea. He was in the navy - a commander in the navy - and he... he'd done a much worse thing than that, though. The British navy were somewhere in the Mediterranean and he flew ove[…]
[…] about in London?WT: Upper Clapton. North London, it was very pretty in those days, it had a village pond which I fell into a lot, and all those sort of things, it's very different now but it was awfully nice then.LW: Did you come from a show business background?WT: No, there was nobody in it at all[…]
[…]stabulary. And I've also deduced, but never proved it, that a very dear friend of mine, a great Irish Republican leader of the Irish Republican Army, Commander [?] General Thomas Barry, almost certainly gave the orders for Flynn's house to be burnt down. So these are one of the interesting circles o[…]
