Philip Donnellan

[…]Moffat: Are you talking about the boys or the staff?Philip Donnellan: I'm talking about the boys and the staff.   The staff, well my housemaster David Spinney who wrote that letter I just read to you, was actually in the Royal Naval Reserve. He was a tremendously keen naval man and 90% of our h[…]

Daphne Shadwell

[…]didn’t endear me to him and he said, ‘No, not like a light entertainment programme, we’re going to do this’. And it was he who instigated that he got David Frost in and I did the first programme with David Frost called the Twist programme. We did a little light entertainment show abou[…]

Erwin Hillier

[…]nk he set us a hallmark in dramatic visual presentation. I don't know of any other director, not even Hitchcock, who could would be superior, or even David Lean, who I think is one of the English might say visual masters, Director. It's not only clever with his artist, but he's also very clever from[…]

Winston (Wyn) Ryder

[…]ffrey Dell.WR: Geoffrey Dell. Then we didn’t have directors then, enough directors I think, I must say this sound camera operators often say this but David Lean was such a success that they gave writers, they gave editors, all sorts of people [the job of directing] and they were hopeless. I mean, re[…]

Harry Fowler

behp 0629-t-harry-fowler-transcriptInterviewee: Harry Fowler [HF]Interviewer: David McGillivray [McG]With occasional interventions by Mrs Catherine “Kay” Fowler [KF]Transcription by David Sharp.NB: Some background noise is present from time to time. Where possible I have clarified points made, and i[…]

Bernard Ponsonby

[…]of it in broadcasting and the day after the Govan Election there was an STV reception at the Liberal Democrat Conference in the Corran Halls in Oban. David Scott who was, at that time, Head of News and Current Affairs of STV said, "I would like you to come and work for STV in the run up to the next […]

Ann Turner

[…]ded to do that. And from the first I said, I would like to do research for programmes and of course, that sort of job didn't exist. And this is where David Attenborough in my leaving party said that I was probably the person who invented this step up for female staff between the typing pool and the […]

Val Guest

[…]ed there. A lot of people lived there, Will Hay lived there for a long time, I lived there. There was an awful lot of stars lived there. I introduced David Lean to Kay Walsh his first wife there, because I think David lived there for a while. And Billy Wilder's brother, Bob Wilder. Bud Flanagan. Mar[…]
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