[…]off an application form so I filled it in. My contract was just finishing with the Uni and I'd got another job as a, it was an interior design job in Edinburgh and I'm so glad I didn't get it! Anyway, I got an interview and I showed up and I sat down with Peter, who was the Head of Design, fabulous![…]
[…] give you an idea of this, you're talking about 300+ theatres around the UK going from like Caerphilly village hall with 20 seats to the Playhouse in Edinburgh with nearly 3000 seats. So obviously you can't do them all. Some of them only have volunteers. And so we went in for the big ones, the touri[…]
[…]at difficulty with … and later on they all said how awful it must have been for you … was a radio producer and I got a wonderful book from a woman in Edinburgh when I was doing a show there, Open House. And it was one of these books that identify people by their birth signs and it was the best[…]
[…] for two years so I learnt a great deal from him. The people, I suppose people do remember him because in fact The McTaggart Lecture still happens at Edinburgh Television Festival, but I think Jim must be whirling in his grave to see the people in fact who do the lecture nowadays. Mm, because when, […]
[…] boots all day. But as I was (indistinct) ‘oh dear! My boots are wet!’ Erm, and anyway, I was picked as a potential officer and er…went to a board in Edinburgh, and got on the board, and went to Wrotham in Kent to be a…trained as an officer in the Royal Artillery. And, to cut a long story short, I m[…]
[…]ee. And managed to sue funnily enough through the BFI. Is this getting too long. Dennis former was very helpful. I went up to a course at. The BFI in Edinburgh. They did a film school got to know Dennis because I did a lot of still pictures for him. It was a year that Orson Welles was was featured a[…]
[…]e film was the first commercial success of that unit. It went into the cinemas, they'd not had anything in the cinemas before. It was er - it went to Edinburgh. It became an absolute resounding success. And of course my position became more and more untenable in Edgar's' eyes.And one day, shortly af[…]
