Roy Fowler

[…]e so my A-level subjects were all science whereas I would have much rather have dabbled in the arts and I wasn’t terribly interested in physics and chemistry and pure mathematics, which were the four subjects.  But anyway I got through so that was all right.  And the next stage w[…]

Michael Colomb

[…] I wasn't too long with the Leevers Rich but it was always in the back of your mind that you could Did you have a problem on the on the combine the chemical x with the magnetic with the 16? Yes. It was one of these things that it beats as it sweeps as it cleans. And in fact, you couldn't find a came[…]

Daphne Shadwell

[…]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.[…]

Alan Lawson

[…]t day and he said as soon as you're got your regimental number you're to get in touch with me, which I did. I'd been drafted to the Royal Engineers Chemical Warfare. My base was to be Barton Stacy which isn't far from Handover, 1 think Long Parish was the actual address. I was doing basic training a[…]

Dallas Bower

[…] he was a strange man, hunched back, deformed and he had an immense enthusiasm for German cinema and insofar as BIP is concerned he was very much the eminence grise. He, the managing director was a man called John Court Ackleby Thorpe and I don't think he was very interested in filmmaking particular[…]

Carmen Dillon

[…] in Elstree. Sidney Cole: Oh MGM - not MGM - EMI... Carmen Dillon: Not EMI, another one. Unidentified Sound Recordist: […]

Alan Lawson

[…] common transmitter capable of taking either our system or the EMI system. On the first floor there was studio A, […]

Waris Hussein

[…]st significant production for the Mummers was Ondine by Jean Giraudoux and it was a huge hit. I'll never forget that John Tusa played the Knight, the eminent John Tusa, and subsequently I directed A View From The Bridge when it was first released as an amateur from under the Lord Chamberlain's, you […]

Jonathan Balcon

[…] talked about him uncle Jerry was a fascinating character. He died only recently. Apart from marrying his first cousin, his first wife, he was a very eminent dentist, but a very eminent dentist and in the latter part of his life he should have been knighted, but nobody, he had nobody to recommend hi[…]
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