[…]introduction to the electrical side.Yeah. What year was that? That wasabout 1930. Again, I all in that area. And Stan Double. Oh yeah, he was a chief engineer there. And he had been contracted to instal Ealing. And he promised me a job as this boy again. And I went over there and couldn't find Stan […]
[…]Arnold, who played it in those days. And I think they're about the only three original members of the cast that are still there. One of the programme engineers that we used was a man called Tony Shrine, who later became a producer, and was involved in various quiz games thought up by him and Edward […]
BECTU History Project - Interview No. 294 [Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: 2004-03-15Interview Date: 1972Interviewer: Jim ShieldsInterviewee: Maurice AskewTape 1, Side 1 Jim Shields: This is a recording made in 1972 at the Gate recording theatre at Elstree, of Maurice Askew, who was th[…]
[…]ree were by no means equipped to this island. And so making sound pictures was very difficult. That was one thing. The other thing was that the sound engineers as they always have ever since, with due respect, considered themselves to be the elite on top of everything and nobody good to say a word. […]
[…]l or restaurant, get a private room, they was the composers, the director, producer, Steve, recordist, and Chris Greenham, Mary Haberfield, the sound engineer, all the technicians and the heads and myself, we would have big table usually for about ten, and you can imagine what the conversation was l[…]
[…]th, 1923 in Bangalore, South India in the military hospital, I think. My father was in the British army in India, the Queen Victoria's Own, the Royal Engineers. My mother was half Scottish, her mother was Scottish and her father was English. She was born in South Africa and had met my father in Scot[…]
