Muriel Box (Gardiner) (née Baker)

[…][...]Sidney Cole : You were saying that you went to a school at Kingston, was that the convent school?Muriel Box : No the convent school was at Wimbledon, and that gave up and I went to the Kingston one, a higher school there.Sidney Cole : Did you get much out of your schooling? I got the impression[…]

John Shearman

[…] outside crew.Unknown Speaker  0:45  And I was born there because my father wasUnknown Speaker  0:51  an engineer in the great London North Western Railway works in crew, and that was whereUnknown Speaker  0:59  he and my mother lived in this village called West Aston.U[…]

Muriel Box

[…] didn't know about it. And she said, "Oh no, I don't think so." So I never got in to do […]

Robert Beatty

[…] the West End.Roy Fowler: You were almost from the beginning a West End actor.Robert Beatty: I was. I regret that in some ways, I think it would have done me a lot of good to go into rep for 6 months or more.Because I always think it's a good training for people on the stage.Roy Fowler: What did RAD[…]

Peter Lamont

[…]ible]. So I did a three-year course. When I came out, my father, who was a sign writer and, I’m not joking, he was bloody clever you know and I still don’t know how he did it or where he learnt it, but in those days, there were no graphic aids, it was all done by hand. And we might have had a little[…]

Agnes Wilkie

[…]eading. I was always passionate about books and reading and as a farmer's daughter, my brother and sister were less interested in all that stuff so I don't know where it came from. I guess my Mum liked books. She was a nurse so nobody had any kind of media or literary background or whatever but I th[…]

Tessa Idlewine

[…]is obviously a feature. Because we got a Film Foundation grant to work on that and we were just… we were too busy so I started working on that. So, I don’t know, I can talk about Masque some more or do you…PF: Yeah so if you can talk a little bit about how the project came about and perhap[…]

Godfrey Jennison

[…]d background. Yes. By the way when in which I was actually born in Leicester but the family came from Derbyshire and my father was halfway down to London as around in his business career in textiles. I was born in Leicester when I was three or four. We moved to London some really before. I hardly re[…]

Richard (Dickie) Best

[…]g is vested in the ACTT History Project.SIDE 1, TAPE 1AG: Richard, where and when were you born.DB: I was born in Hull in 1916 and brought down to London at an earlyage, about 3 or 4, where I've been ever since for which I'm dulygrateful because if I'd been kept up there I would never have entered t[…]

Donald Wilson

[…]voluntary offers to proofread this and/or other interviews. If you want to help, please contact BEHP Secretary,  sue.malden@btinternet.com. Donald Wilson Side 1 Dave Robson  0:00The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. The subject is Donald Wilson, i[…]
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