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[…] didn't know any other way, you know, it was grand! Anyway, the next rather frightening thing that happened there was the thing that put me off trade unions for many, many, many years. And it has a sequel later on, which we'll be talking about. But, during that period, there was the big strike which[…]

[…]ople did you come across at that time? I suppose you knew Arnold Ridley who wrote 'The Ghost Train'?Dicky Leeman: Well I knew him because I'm a Rugby Union fanatic and he was at one time president of Bath! [laughs]Rodney Giesler: Oh was he?Dicky Leeman: Yes. I never actually worked with him but occa[…]

[…]e characters at Greenpark in those days?Erica Masters: Er, Humphrey Swingler, Ralph Caine[?] and Laurie Lee, and...Sydney Samuelson: These were great documentary names.Erica Masters: Yeah, absolutely.Sydney Samuelson: Yes.Erica Masters: And it was a very - I mean the difference between Paul Rotha an[…]

[…]until I went into the army at 18. Had you become a member of Rotary team. Yes. Well Charlie approach me you see and in my family to belong to a trade union was almost sacrilegious. You have to understand. So I said right. I know about that as it really should. I didn't know about that. Anyhow Charli[…]

[…]to join the ACT which in those days wasn't any problem because they wanted members. After a time, I, a couple of years I became Vice President of the union.Roy Fowler: We mustn't get on to the ACT yet. We'll take that separately. At Movietone did you have a title?Reg Sutton: Sound recordist.Roy Fowl[…]

[…] as I see it in the BBC – in the Documentary Section- I can’t really talk about Drama and Light […]