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[…]her, and I became completely smitten with them, I can only say that. I just couldn't wait to get involved in them. My opportunity came when - I was a member of the boy scouts, and there was an opportunity for me to do something about that when the head of our local scouts for some reason was approac[…]

[…] a comet which nobody else had seen. He was a member of the Astronomical Society from the early 20s. He […]

[…]al things a bit of woodwork and a bit of shorthand typing. Away. Can you remember when you started in the film industry. Well yes I can because some it&nbs[…]

[…]My mother, as was General in those days was a housewife mother. And I have a very early memory of the First World War, because quite clearly, I can remember my father opening the window in the bedroom, in which they slept and I as a baby with the role of a Zeppelin going overhead, that must mean I w[…]

[…]e too mean to give it to you. But there we are. He was a Fellow of the British Film Institute; he was a Fellow of the Royal College of Art; he was an Honorary D Lit Sussex University and he was chairman of the various companies later in life that we'll come to. But let us go back to the beginning. H[…]

[…]ll in Newcastle. As I said I was born in ‘56 and one of the things that impacted on us as a family was my parents’ great love for light opera and I remember from a very early age the joy they took in singing and performing etcetera and being on stage so that sort of slight theatricality was there in[…]

[…]y Fox when I was sixteen so I’ve always had that kind of connection with, mm, with the industry. I was, at sixteen, seventeen I was also an associate member of The Screen Writers Guild so I was meeting people then like Eric Ambler for example that was quite surprising that, mm...  Were you[…]

[…]School.RF: Did you enjoy school.VG: Not a lot.RF: Did you have any special subjects you were good at or loathed.VG: Not particularly, but what I do remember doing at school, I used to sneak down very early in the morning, to the masters’ common room where there was an old typewriter and I slowly wit[…]

[…]views by talking about the little nine point five machine hand wound and here we are. What is it 40 years later 50 years later with them. Well like a lifetime later works you know we've gone as you say from manual.SPEAKER: M5Not even machine controlled but hand controlled and Eddie told us.SPEAKER: […]