Search Results for: Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to drama (2011).

    EXTRACT: On losing the job of a lifetime:-"I said a permanent job in films or television would be like winning the pools - any kind of a job, I’d be grateful. I suddenly got a phone call one day to see this guy called Ward Thomas, so I go traipsing down to this place beh[…]

[…] go blue his buddy maybe shouldn't say that, but uh, he He was a bit like a sort of Ralph Lin character for he had a monocle, so he spoke rather Posh Commander SewellDave Robson  40:11  I didn't realiseRichard Marden  40:11  I was actually a very nice man but a bit like that. He […]

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[…]up'- at the time, and we had various aeroplanes on call at...oh lord...doesn't matter...one of the aerodromes in the west of London, and a chap named Commander Ron was...who was a well-known socialite, was flying his aeroplane for us, he was on call. So I went down there and we flew over the Derby a[…]

[…]lly, we had all the knowledge they needed. It was just getting into the swing of being naval again. Then they sent me around on trials with a regular Commander, and after about six months I was turned loose on my own, sent to Newcastle in charge of [???] there with a staff, office, under an Admiral.[…]

[…] 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[…]

[…] And from there I went to Keebles College, Oxford, a degree in modern history. Then military service, in the army, Duke of Cornwall'sLight Infantry, I'd never been to Cornwall in my life but that didn't really matter.It was after […]

[…]tish Entertainment History Project.This transcript has been edited to remove hesitation and repetition where it was felt that the speech recognition software had been too thorough!Interviewee: Anne Fleming (AF)Interviewer: Murray Weston (MW):Murray Weston:  It's Friday the 21st of April 2017 an[…]