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[…]late ‘30s and into the War. So, the early part of the War anyway, I, I was in Ross, I was in school there. Convents, schooling, I can't claim any academic qualifications, but I did specialise in school quite a bit in music, and my mother seemed to think that I had some, I mean, and my mother was one[…]

[…]That was his, was it?DS: Yes, he’d thought of that. Yes.That was at the very beginning of the war, was it not?DS: It was. He’d thought of it, but it reminded him, because he had worked in the Garrison Theatre and had...JPH: In the First World War.DS: First World War, and had done a lot of music and.[…]

[…]nd ended up knowing a bit. And the good thing about Sequence was that it was a discovery for its editors.Also it wasn't in any way theoretical or academic, even though it did start at Oxford. So that for instance the French influence which came later to dominate English writing the about films and t[…]

[…] back I think, although the British Kinematograph Society was behind it, it was all theory stuff like, a lot of useful stuff mind you. Photographic chemistry, design, electrical engineering and all sorts of things, and we did tinker a bit with 9.5mm and I think we had an old Newman Sinclair. But tha[…]

[…]ne! That's old ground and we won't mill over it too long. But just to say one thing, I was absolutely lost, because I was surrounded by brilliant academic minds, they were all 'double firsts' from Oxbridge you see. And frankly, I could have been in Tibet, I didn't know what the heck they were talkin[…]

[…]her was when he wasn't drinking he was a journalist. But the lack of the drinking took more time I think than the writing my grandfather was a rather eminent ecclesiastical writer. He was the editor of the Church Times and he wrote for the evening your regular column for the evening news by any clai[…]

[…]e but you couldn't always do it as you know.BA: And the editor.BE: The editor was Michael Chorton and he was a very, as a - matter of fact he always reminded me, I don't know if you knew him at all, but he always reminded me of somebody 1ike Jonathan Miller, he was that type of person, extremely cle[…]

[…]s the boss.VG: No, I never thought anything about him, he was just the guy who pushed the thing at me. I used to talk to him about it in later days, remind him.RF: He was part of Maxwell's Scottish mafia was he not?VG: That's right, and Vaughen Dean was, later on one picture of mine, I can't remembe[…]