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John Ammonds Side 1John P. Hamilton 0:01 The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU History Project. Our subject today is John Ammonds - A M M O N D S. Television producer director, ex-BBC TV, Thames TV, London Weekend Television, now retired. The interviewer […]
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[…]nd stayed here ever since. Always been very handy here you know.Alan Lawson: And what about schooling?Leonard Harris: Oh schooling. Well I went first of all to a little private school here called Kingswood School, just around the corner. It was in the basement of Wesleyan Church I think, it was noth[…]
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[…]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[…]