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[…] once, in the middle of a lunch with the High Commissioner in Ibadan. I had to make a rapid exit. […]

[…] like executive producers. It seemed that at every viewing the commissioner (usually an ex-public school boy with an Essex accent) […]

[…]ou know I went twice to the Oscars as a guest of the American Academy and was treated with great respect. I had dinner parties to which I invited the Commissioner of the Police, Lord Grade - it was an incredible time for an elementary schoolboy who left school at fourteen with no academic credibilit[…]

[…]as a nightmare. And of course they failed. Still have. I couldn't help being fascinated by the political side. There were four different British High Commissioners in Nigeria, one for each region: Federal, East, West and North. And each one threw a party for me through which I could meet political l[…]

[…]ribe with confidence because it could range across the entire imaginative spectrum. You could have, you could try and reconstruct one of Henry VIII’s commissioners exploring Pershore Abbey in the 14th century and you would have monks droning on and playing the song and the the the abbot meeting the […]

[…] mumbled that I wouldn't want to do either of those jobs. Of course, I had an idea. It was the days of the British Empire and I'd read about District Commissioners, and I knew about the North West Frontier, so I rather fancied myself or I would like to be a District Commissioner in Africa, or I woul[…]

[…] we drove down with the equipment Roddy and my assistant, and Roddy assistant to Derby one day reported at Rolls Royces, where we had a rather snooty commissioner who got on the phone to our liaison man Iver lusty said, Oh, Mr. Lusty, sir, there are some photographic individuals who say they have an[…]