[…]y so I didn’t have a great time at Charterhouse. I left there in 1965, had what these years you would call a gap year and working at Legal & General, the insurance company to earn enough money to take myself on an extended trip to the States, and then was at Caius College Cambridge studying[…]
[…]BBC is an , expansive, and expanding mode, etc, etc. "Tell me about it". "So we're looking at initially, so we're looking for, I mean, we do look for general trainees, and so on the added cream intake as it were. But we're also looking for studio managers" What's a studio manager? . Might[…]
[…]st go back for seconds...These things come to my mind...Um...I got an award, at the BBC, and Rene Cutforth. So we had to go and see um...the Director General...Haley...and er up to Broadcasting House, and get a glass of sherry and a...lunch and all that, and he said, "Well, on behalf of the BBC, we'[…]
[…]en I, I tried to get to, to Indochina, I volunteered to go to Indochhina, and was just about to go there when fortunately, it fell. And that was when General Jupp managed to knock off General de latense?at Dien Bien Phu, and I was was actually sheduled go out there to as the liaison officer, to to t[…]
[…]re very good theatre dates lost the theatre and those theatres didn’t come back until they’d built these great Odeon’s and palaces. Then that theatre generally became a Rep theatre. Margaret Thomson: Ah, I see, so that’s the process.Jean Anderson: So that the touring, the tours whereas on paper[…]
[…], when I married Pat there were four Bishops in the family I think.Roger was...?Roger was a cousin, he was the son of the, he was the son of the, the General.Yes.Uncle Bill, he was, and his daughter, his sister too, Judith.And...Elisabeth Furse DRAFT Tape 2 Side A78Elisabeth Furse DRAFT Tape 2 Side […]
[…]nbsp;training before you started work. No not really in those days. It was very general education. We did the normal things a bit of woodwork and a bit of […]
[…]had all this equipment, which we were trained on; duplicates of Marconi equipment that would be on a ship. So after a year, we sat for the Postmaster General's First Class Certificate of Proficiency in Radio, Wireless Telegraphy. And I passed see, so I then immediately wrote to the Marconi Internati[…]
