Elizabeth Furse (née Wolpert)

[…]I, I, I didn't want to have anything to do with the Communist Party because I've, well so many of my people, my friends were killed when they went to Moscow. They were shot and disappeared and all that you know.Who were some of the Communists who were active in the Union then?They were all.All of th[…]

Karel Reisz

[…]the RAFNorman Swallow:Czech squadron?Karel Reisz:3.08In fact there was not a separate training squadron, I was trained in an international, we had Dutch and we had Turks. The Turks came in right at the end of the wa[…]

Edward (Teddy) Carrick (Craig)

[…]’t done any more since then. Venice, then I wrote my father's life which was quite a big job, Gordon Craig, the Story of his Life.It was published in 1968 and it took me all that time to do it.SC: I was surprised that it was your last film that you mentioned was lo 59–60 and no more films after that[…]

Nancy Thomas

This recording was transcribed by funds from the AHRC-funded ‘History of Women in British Film and Television project, 1933-1989’, led by Dr Melanie Bell (Principal Investigator, University of Leeds) and Dr Vicky Ball (Co-Investigator, De Montfort University). (2015).BECTU History ProjectInterview n[…]

Charlotte Jennings

[…]oming involved with surrealist artists. He became a founding member of the surrealist movement in England, and was on the Organising Committee of the International surrealist exhibition, held in London in 1936. This was at Burlington house, where he exhibited along with Dali and Picasso  to men[…]
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