[…]s so it was no use to John, so everything was down to these two gentlemen who came along, a fellow called Neil Crawford and David Smit Dorian who was General Smit Dorian's son and they were a couple of gay gentlemen and they wanted to get into the theatre and they had the money. He was Crawford of C[…]
[…]ry Project SIDE 1, TAPE 1 Manny Yospa: When and where were you born. Geoff Conway: I was born on 4 May 1926 - that was the year of the general strike - in fact it was during the general strike that I was born - over in Bethnal Green. Manny Yospa: What were your parents? Geof[…]
[…] Cooper directing. It was called children of the city, and dealt with delinquent children up north in Glasgow and Dundee. We did approved schools and generally, the film dealt with the problem of delinquent children in the slums, which, again, was quite an education for me to get into those places. […]
[…] Smedley-Aston: Cope? Roy Fowler: Cope...Captain Cope. He was the first General Secretary. E.M. Smedley-Aston: No. Can't say I did. Roy Fowler: […]
[…] of. And he is the chap who captured the German general in Crete. Well I was in on the planning […]
[…]over Ogilvy and Mather I think. And they're still quite a powerful force in the ad. business. But as things were starting to get a bit dicey with the General Depression, I started work with one of their biggest clients, which was the Fruit Trades Federation with the famous slogan 'Eat More Fruit'. S[…]
[…]said I could do 1 every half-hour. And I said in the end, “You’d better try this, because I can’t. I really can’t do it.” And I had Generals, and I had 07:00 other ranks; then you know, some of them were very old and didn’t know how to get here and didn’t know how to get back[…]
[…] so disappointing when he became leader of...Do you know something that Zilly and Michael Foot, this is confidential again, I mean, you know, not for general publication.Jan Zilliacus DRAFT. Tape 2 Side A40Jan Zilliacus DRAFT. Tape 2 Side AThat’s right. But, but Foot didn’t approve of Zilly, you kno[…]
[…]arious documentaries and perhaps not the cop jobs. However, I do want to say something about our bright, two quite crucial things. One of them is the general thing about as I sometimes say to people, one of my universities, one of our universities was the first ship I served in, which was a old glid[…]