[…]t was always associated with The Guardian was Andrew Neil who was on News way before my time but other editors round about that time have gone on and done well. The ones that spring to my mind who were immediate contemporaries of mine are Ken Garner, who's now actually not so much a Journalist but h[…]
[…]each the stuff, so I applied and got that one, so started at the IWM in the summer of 1970, as a Research Assistant, Grade 2, cataloguing film, and I don’t know how soon you want to get into details of what film cataloguing at the IWM meant, but at that time IWM had been pioneering the use of modern[…]
[…]it. It would cover everything and would become eventually a computerised database. So, I was entirely unqualified. However, I did get an interview. I don't know quite how- I didn't get the job - but Franklin invited me, Noble Frankland, who was the director at the time wrote me a letter afterwards b[…]
[…]ned the BBC as a technical assistant – so, trainee engineer. And, at the time, all I knew was that they were recruiting for posts in television in London, so that would have been, really, Television Centre and Lime Grove, as they were, in White City. So, I was taken on and was posted to TV Centre an[…]
[…]o be a researcher so I also wanted to do something that had a public facing front. So, I joined the marketing graduate scheme, and…SS: Was this in London?PC: This was in London, yes, I went to University in Birmingham and in London I joined Kodak in Kingsway in there very grand building there and we[…]
[…]onally? Derek Williams 1:00It began, as with many filmmakers, almost automatically. But But whereas with many here, we were born in the London area and live close to studios and so on. I come from Northumberland and I had a lifelong boyhood interest in Hadrian's Wall. And when I was an un[…]
[…] 0:43  And the place of birthUnknown Speaker  0:47  I would suspect theUnknown Speaker  0:50  birth certificate says Londonderry I call it Derek.Unknown Speaker  0:54  And your nationality. I'm British. I have a British passport.Unknown Speaker  1:00 &nbs[…]
[…] changed. And if you sign any kind of agreement they do insist that you have your first name. And so they had to use the name Thomas. Which doesn't I don't like at all.SPEAKER: M1That's life. And and when and where were you born.SPEAKER: M5I was born in Newbury Berkshire in 1926 in West Mills. My fa[…]
