Jenny Barraclough

…to be a Director/Producer thanks to the Maysles Brothers. They had shot so much film on a ‘World in Action’ about ‘60s Britain, that Dick Fontaine, who had initiated the programme, couldn’t face it an…

Esther Rantzen

…nated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Following the death of Rantzen's husband, film-maker Desmond Wilcox, she made a landmark programme on palliative care, How to Have a Good Death, fo…

Julie Harris

…asino Royale (1967), The Wrong Box (1966) and other Bryan Forbes films, as well as with notable stars like Michael Caine and David Niven. The final part of the interview features a disc…

Peter Manley

…ucated at Ealing Modern in the late thirties.He recollects his first glimpse of film production by observing a 'battleship' on the backlot of the ATP Studios which were quite near. The film being made…

Arthur Wooster

Returned to focus pulling until end of Crown 1952. Started company Film Partnerships venture. BBC work various documentaries.

Nigel (Bob) Huke

… talks about working with the Super Parva Debrie camera, about Kodak and Dupont film stocks and working on shooting back plates. In 1939 he moved to Shepperton to work on French Without Tears.SIDE TWO…

Leslie J Wheeler

…ayed there all the years MGM British existed, but for his untimely death whilst filming from a helicopter.A.W.Watkins actually had two right-hand men, but his better claim to fame concerned his rather…

Rudolph (Rudi) Cartier

…l 1904 -  7 June 1994) was an Austrian television director, filmmaker, screenwriter and producer who worked predominantly in British television, exclusively for…

Sidney Gilliat

Sidney Gilliat (15 February 1908 – 31 May 1994) was an English film director, producer and writer.He was born in the district of Edgeley in Stockport, Cheshire. In the 1930s he worked as a scriptwrite…

Hazel Adair

…under the pen name Clare Nicol. She continued to act and had small roles in the film My Brother Jonathan (1948) and the BBC television drama Lady Precious Stream (1950).  Adair wrote two ser…