[…]ary as it was very remote and was to largely find our own food from the sea. We were a family of eight, my brother  was the first born and third member of the family, I was the youngest of the group. As I mentioned, there was a great deal of political argument, in the village and in our house w[…]
[…] you'd been around the laboratories in the past...Technicolor for many years. Anyway, that's his history, but he's been a longstanding, very valuable member of the industry. And I went to work with him when he was running a little radio and electrical shop, as a very young man...which he didn't do f[…]
[…]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[…]
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[…]t. In terms of cricket. I've had a couple of awards because it's apart from journalism, the grid passion of my life. I have been made a life honoree, member of the Northern cricket union. And I have a blazer next door, which says I'm a former president of the Irish cricket union.Unknown Speaker &nbs[…]
[…]ir. That was mainly apprentices to where I was sent was the biggest don't we had about 4000 trainees. At that time, this is in the 19, early 1950s. Remember, when the Cold War was at its height, so everyone was on military awareness. And I haven't done my basic training there. I was asked to join th[…]
[…]ction? Indeed,Speaker 2  0:28  well, I knew him for 40 years, so I knew him extremely well. He was an extremely gentle man. That's what I remember most vividly about him, to be honest. And yes, he was a talent there is no doubt and is his career in Germany as a composer of reviews, which a[…]
[…]hat mainly Eastmancolor that you were working on?PS: I think that it was exclusively Eastmancolor. There was very few choices, there was Agfa, if I remember rightly, and Fuji didn’t exist and we didn’t have access to Sovcolor.  Maybe there was one other made in East Germany.  I c[…]
[…]ey! Anyway, working on The Scotsman I found myself doing the odd bit for STV and, indeed, the first time I met Roy was at The Scotsman and I always remember he said to me, he said, "You work for me, kid?!" You know! So I said, "Yes, I do, Mr Thomson." "Do you like working for me, kid?" As it happene[…]
