Daphne Shadwell

[…]u daddy’, and were taken home. But that was really the initiation to the theatre.What are the acts that you remember, Daphne?DS: Oh, I remember Sandy Powell, I remember Billy Russell who drove us mad because, as a child I didn’t take in the jokes really, but he used to just stand there. The wor[…]

Bill Cotton

[…]yway they didn't like me, the people who worked outside London didn't, when I say they didn't like me. There's one man I understand I was up for some award, and it's amazing how these things get back to you, and thisfellow said I will not be party to him getting an award, he never cared for any broa[…]

James (Jimmy) Gilbert

[…] thing which strikes me about all this is the immense about of work television people can get in compared with film people. Film, you look up Michael Powell and it's 15 , 20 films, but yours is hundreds.Jimmy Gilbert: Successful series wouldn't be very many, we'd done quite a lot, 15 or20 is an enor[…]

Jack Gold

[…]rds and he said,  if you’d have said in this film that she’d been a Communist, he said none of this would have happened and you’d have got on to awards and we could have got behind you and everything else, anyway, whatever, in my innocence I did nothing, you know, I’m … anyway, there was quite […]

Jimmy Wright

[…]nbsp;Up to you know the late 60s. What were the highlights of you know any awards or any special films that you made or any particular programs that year. […]

Denis Forman

[…]was always fairly dicey in that you had to keep the Governorsat bay from 'Sight and Sound' otherwise censorship would have raised its head, thank God DilysPowell was on the side of the angels.Taylor/Peet: Who was on the Board when you went there, King was Chairman?Denis Forman: King was the Chairman[…]

John Aldred

[…] think it was the first British film to achieve this award. Peter Musgrave: Western Electric came from Americ a. Where […]
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