[…]nd go and fight the war.” And so they were all really rather surprised at this and I didn't see General Laycock as I'd hoped but I saw the Lieutenant Commander who was his ADC. Three weeks later I was I was posted to the holding commando which was the place where … I didn't know that every other com[…]
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[…] he was very much an army. He had been captured in the army and he conducted his unit a little bit as though we were you know, up his that he was the commander a little little bit like that. I remember that he was having a relationship with whoever the girl was that was playing lead in the film. And[…]
24 Jun 1988The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. Sidney Samuelson CBE, Entrepreneur, Chairman of Samuelson Film Service. Interviewer, Alan LawsonSide One. Q: Sidney, when and where were you born?SAMUELSON: I was born in Paddington in Warrington Crescent I […]
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[…]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[…]
Charles Picken - My Cinema LifeCHAPTER ONE - MY FORMATIVE YEARSFrom my earliest childhood the magic of the Cinema had been firmly entrenched in my life. In those days television had not yet begun its inexorable march into the living rooms of the nation and the weekly visit, or in my fort[…]
[…]ually? Can you remember?David Prosser: August 1940.Alan Lawson: Ah ha, ah ha.David Prosser: Overnight. Um, Tony Kimmins, the playwright, director and commander, R.N., and you name it - famous chap - er 'phoned up my news editor and said "we need a man to go off on an unspecified operation, for anyth[…]
[…]days. I mean, tanks have a lot of radio in them. And this was done. And they were all ready to do something practical when Mountbatten arrived as the commander in chief and turned them into jungle infantry. So once again, nobody knew what to do with me. So because I was not to go back from Middle Ea[…]
[…]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[…]
