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

SIDE 1 INTERVIEWER: The date is the 6th of July, 1993. This [is] interview number two-seven-one, with Charles Smith. Right. Okay, when—when were you born, and what sort of childhood did you have, and what your parents were. CHARLES SMITH: Well, I was born in 1920, May, in Rugby in Warwicks[…]

[…]ight raid. Thought is a good idea by ministry because the the sorry, the Americans were doing it successfully and out of the 11 two got back. My wing commander was one armed with the other one. And, again, most of the crew dead This time I had a year in hospital. And it came out being told by carniv[…]

[…]History Project - Interview No. 122[Copyright BECTU] Transcription Date: 2003-08-13Interview Date: 1990-01-09Interviewer: Alan Lawson and Colin Moffat Interviewee: Cyril Pennington-RichardsBECTU History Project - Interview No. 122 [Copyright Statement - to be worked out later] Transcription Dat[…]

[…]ously went through. But I found that quite a lot was missing. For instance, there was a sequence at the beginning where Conrad Veidt as the Submarine Commander goes through a minefield, which was completely thrown away, there was hardly anything shot for it at all. And I managed to get some bits for[…]

[…]there we'd have been knocked over too. That was one example of recording natural sound effects. We did our homework on one occasion and the battalion commander said we're entrenched down that road there, just go down and ask the sergeant what's happening. We saw all our troops in the ditches at the […]