[…]wers: Jim ShieldsInterviewee: Kay Mander Kay Mander: Joy, could we start with when and where you were born?Joy Batchelor: I was born in Watford, and at the time it was a little market town, and now nobody would know it, including me. It's horrible, perfectly foul.Unknown interviewer, poss[…]
[…]o find out about how people get educated musically.RA: After that, I wanted to be a film director and I think it was Gaumont British offered a course for £100 where you could be an apprentice and I put this to my father and he refused to allow this because we had a history of so called tuberculosis […]
[…]Lawson recorded on the 26th of January 1989. side, one . Ron when and where were you born?Ron Hill 0:39 Born in Hackney Yes. in Hartford road Hackney. Yes.Alan Lawson 0:44 What was in 1910 1910? Yes. And what kinds of schooling did you have?Ron Hill 0:51 ele[…]
[…]elands on 22rd August 1988, interviewer Sidney Cole [with Roy Fowler] SIDE 1, TAPE 1Sid Cole: Could we talk about you, you've been at Glebelands for 11 years.Betty Bachelor: Yes, I had 3 years in a cottage and I've been up here 10 years last August, August 16th.Sid Cole: When were you born and […]
[…]ey Cole: Jack, you spent your life in cinema distribution - how did you get into that originally?Jack Rockett: I saw an advert in the Daily Telegraph for office boy wanted.Sidney Cole: How old were you then?Jack Rockett: Fifteen.Sidney Cole: What had you done - what sort of schooling had you had up […]
[…]DB. But only for that reason? Or did you feel just at home with the camera?PS. Oh yes. I always, you know , liked the camera.DB. Did you know Michael Powell?PS. I think I met him, but I met so many people, and famous people, it's difficult to remember them all.DB. Who made the most impression on you[…]
[…]iendly, but like everything else, when you hold a position in a trade union, some people like you and some people don't. But I liked the man and therefore I've got some nice memories of the man you know, because to me, he was for the working class people, of which I am a member, of that working clas[…]
[…]ly using Otter, https://get.otter.ai/interview-transcription/.It provides a basic, but unverified or proofread transcript of the interview. Therefore, the British Entertainment History Project (BEHP) accepts no liability for any misinterpretation of the content of this interview.However, the BE[…]
[…]gressive in the 1900s and it had quite an intellectual a group of boys, we came from intellectual families mainly . W. H. Auden had been there just before and at that point he hadn't been regarded as respectable. His early poems came up to the school library, I remember someone saying I couldn't tea[…]
