[…]my fortunate case more often than that, to the local movie picture theatre was the form of escapism of the masses. Having been born and brought up in Edinburgh I can probably claim to have visited nearly all of the operating cinemas in that city on many occasions before, in my senior secondary schoo[…]
[…]r was dying, and we lived we got a house in Scotland, and we lived there. Basically throughout my childhood, I lived in Scotland. I went to school in Edinburgh, and yes, so I my home was in Scotland, and so I consider myself Scottish, even though I wasn't born there. But my parents, I think one of t[…]
[…]mit for a great many small films which otherwise, just go disappear. From view. Stanley Forman 35:58 How do you feel about Edinburgh? Well, Derek Malcolm 36:00 it's a different kind of festival with different kinds of priorities. And it can favou[…]
[…]he date is 5 March 1990, File No 130.SIDE 1, TAPE 1John Taylor: Just start at the beginning. When were you born and whereJimmy Gilbert: I was born in Edinburgh in 1923 and my father, he was Irish, he came from the West Coast of Ireland and he was sent up to Scotland and I was born and brought up in […]
[…]And I’d done that for a year or two. So I went up there, never having been there, like most of us I’d just been through it on the train on the way to Edinburgh.SF: Yeah, exactly.But it’s a lovely city, a great place to live. But I always remember going to work, and I had a wonderful time there actua[…]
[…] I: Yeah. R: I was born in Grangemouth in 1948 so I'm not local to Glasgow but I've tended to veer more to the East coast because I went to Edinburgh University so, apart from a period in Manchester, I've lived in Edinburgh for most of my life. I: So you were brought up in Grangemouth[…]
[…]and it was very exciting. The Conventions at Cambridge every other year are the most important events in television…far more important than the Edinburgh Television Festival because they…I mean, Edinburgh Television Festival is…well, for everybody in television, and without being too snooty, t[…]
[…] were such fun! You all travelled together in carriages and we used to play endless games and they used to be, oh, long ones. You would do Bristol to Edinburgh and things like that, with waits on the station. But, we used to play endless games. One game we used to play, I remember - and again, so go[…]
[…] to be, oh, long ones. You would do Bristol to Edinburgh and things like that, with waits on the station. […]
[…] first question is how did you actually find yourself in television? R: Well I came in 1981, late 1981, because I'd run the Festival Fringe, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for five years before that and I'd been interviewed on TV and I was also presenting a programme called Encore, which was STV[…]
