[…]g into the sixth form. In other words, they didn’t want me to and I said no and she said “Well, have you got any plans?”, and I said yes. This was in Ealing, Notting Hill in Ealing High School, I said “I’m going to Ealing Art School” and she said “Oh, I wasn’t aware there was one” which was pretty g[…]
[…] After about five months, I started shopping around and this was in the summer of 1962, I saw an advert in the newspaper for a BBC film department at Ealing was taking on temporary staff for the editing department. So I ran the number to find out what it was all about. And a former editor named ALF […]
[…]ttle Of The River Plate. John Schlesinger: That's true, when I left university we had had a rather strange experience with Sir Michael Balcon at Ealing. And Freddie Shaughnessy who was a writer and came to see Black Legend which was the film about the hanging which we decided, a friend of my fa[…]
[…] for Dal, because, again, a very good public relations act on his part, because my story had very little to do with the Navy, as such. I mean, I was dealing with a U-boat, the survivors in a lifeboat and one Merchantman that comes to pick them up. Where the hell does the Navy come into it? Hardly at[…]
[…]low called Robeck was negotiating for Time Inc. and he was a big, tall man he was about six foot five and he marched up and down at Villiers House in Ealing, and then I went over to America to Time and he marched up and down arguing and arguing about the price and the conditions, and then suddenly I[…]
[…]o a lot of work for that, through Sir Gordon of course.Roy Fowler: And also it was Joseph Ball, was it not, at Tory Central Office? Did you have any dealings with him?Norman Fisher: I remember the name.Roy Fowler: Did you work on any of those political stories?Norman Fisher: Oh yes.Roy Fowler: Peopl[…]
