Interviewed by Andrew Dawson, University of Greenwich, 24 August 2010 Roy, before we actually get started on the interview can you give me your date of birth please? It was the tenth of March 1927. Okay. You’re one of the founders of The ACT BECTU History Proje[…]
[…]BWell I was very little but I do remember bombs, yes yes.SRDo you think that affected your future at all?JBNo. Not at all I think I was too young and of course since then I've learnt a lot about the warbut I don't think it affected me noSRAnd tell me about your familyJBI had a brother who is determi[…]
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 […]
[…]R FOR BECTU HISTORY PROJECTMF: I'm a Liverpudlian as you may gather from a problem I have with certain words like fur-her? but otherwise I spent most of my life down in the London area. I think at this stage I would have been influenced in my career by my late father, Leslie Faber - I think it might[…]
[…]ker 0:07 Right? So this is, have you done the introduction? So don't need to do that.Speaker 1 0:18 So it's the ordinary sort of interview about your life and careers. I'm sure you've done 100 times before 99 okay. Where were you born?Unknown Speaker 0:34 Plymouth[…]
[…]ul gardener called Ted Pollard who was with us for many years. But there were sheep grazing when we bought it and it had been converted by an ex-Wing Commander and it just suited everybody's purpose. It was the exact reverse of Henden Manor, you approached it from below and it was at the peak of a h[…]
