[…]t worked wonderfully really and I adored my time at the Open University. I found it absolutely fascinating, valuable, everything. And they gave me an honorary degree.So you have an academic degree now, despite all you’ve been telling us. [laughter]The chap who – Arnold Kettle, the Professor of Liter[…]
[…] Harold sports Sports Club, that Barnes be a little trio. There all people from the grammar school. No, no, no. I don't know how on earth i i can't remember the pianist name, but how much he got hold of me, I just don't know. But I remember going to the school on a Saturday and getting the drum kit,[…]
[…] it absolutely fascinating, valuable, everything. And they gave me an honorary degree. So you have an academic degree now, despite […]
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[…]u think of the changes which have taken place in the medical field, I was terribly interested because I've always been interested, as I say from this lifetime of illness of things medical. Just a small sidelight on on that. was the fact that I found that as a television person dealing with top line […]
[…]ir share of broadcasts but by and large it was a theatre a week plus sometimes 2 Sunday concerts. They worked very hard in those days. One period I remember the Cine Variety, my father was doing 7 shows a day between the Dominion, Tottenham Court Rd., and the Elephant and Castle, starting at midday […]
[…]'s job where you had to have a think about exactly how you were going to cable things or where that mic clipped on. It was doing things as the junior member of a team that the other members of the team then relied on you to do, mostly so they could go to the pub and come in five minutes before on ai[…]
[…]do with with broadcasting industry? No, but my father was interested in making cine films and he had a quarter track and half track tape machine. I remember going on holiday with his cine camera planted in the, in the windscreen and what have you. So I think I get my interest in what I do from him. […]
[…]s my friend, Walter, his last film. And as usual, I said, Oscar, for goodness sakes, stop it. Of course, you're not going to die because he spent his lifetime. Him he was gonna die. From the minute I married him, he was gonna die. So, of course, I never believed it, because I thought he go on foreve[…]
[…]years, gosh UB: I was 10 before I was able to walk properly, go to school properly and all that so I understand, all a long time ago, but I do remember wanting to play the piano. We had an old piano down in the basement which was in an old house, and I remember watching them, trying to see them[…]
