Jill Craigie

[…]r. My mother was Russian and she was married to somebody in the Sudan, but she was always travelling all over the continent. I think she had a series of lovers, and I went to a series of schools, where I was left during the holidays as a rule. So I had no kind of upbringing at all, in fact I only re[…]

Rudolph (Rudi) Cartier

[…]in the BECTU History ProjectCORRECTED VERSIONRudi Cartier, television producer, interviewer Norman Swallow, recorded on 22nd January 1991[By the time of this recording Rudi Cartier's hearing was badly impaired and as a consequence he was reading questions from a pre-prepared questionnaire, and does […]

Muriel Cole

[…] 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 […]

Stephen Peet

fm10001.mp3[00:00:02] The copyright of this recording is vested in the A C T T history project. Stephen Peet cameraman, television director, television producer, lecturer. Recorded on the 6th of November 1990. INTERVIEWER Norman Swallow with Alan Lawson. Side one.[00:00:36] I: Stephen, when where yo[…]

Charles Wilder

[…]of the film but they were the two stars of the day. And from 1924 until 1927 we did a film at Stag Lane aerodrome with Sir Alan Cobham [NB The Flight Commander] and the er...John Taylor: What was your work as an office boy?Charles Wilder: What was my work as an office boy? Well I used to do the post[…]

Kenneth Griffith

[…]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[…]

Sidney Cole

[…]n Oakley St., Kennington not very far according to one report from where Charlie Chaplin was born. If the wind was favourable it was within the sound of Bow Bells, so I suppose I could call (myself a Cockney. That was 31st October 1903.AL: What schooling did you receive?SC: I had ordinary primary sc[…]

BEHP Bulletin no 2 June 2020

[…] BULLETIN June 2020 Dear all, Welcome to the latest bulletin of the British Entertainment History Project. The outbreak of the […]

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[…] aerodromes in the west of London, and a chap named Commander Ron was...who was a well-known socialite, was flying his […]

Alf Tunwell – Transcript

[…] Ralph Bond, Tunwell offers a fascinating insight into the life of a newsreel cameraman. Specialising particularly in sports filming, he […]
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