[…]en who was stroking my arm and saying I do like a woman with soft skin.I: Probably David Niven yes,JK: Yes it wasI: Now I have something here about A Grip of the StranglerJK: Oh Boris Karloff.I: Oh was it?JK: That was fun. I played a musical hall singer, that time I had a musical number [sings] That[…]
[…] marvellously effective, it must have been great at home I never saw it at home of course because I was always working but it really held you, really gripped you on, on, on the floor, Michael Barry, Desmond Davis. Then alongside that I then got into freelancing, which was quite lucrative the BBC I t[…]
[…]d stuff.SF: yes.But, and there’s a lot of people I really respect.SF: Right.But some of the heavy American feminism really I haven’t wanted to get to grips with.53SF: Yes, oh yes but Sheila Rowbotham...Sheila’s great, I agree.SF: First of all she’s British and she’s easy to understand.And she’s fun.[…]
[…]s. I mean, I can remember the first storywe did after the war which was a terribly cold winter. And we did a shortage of coal story, youknow, “Winter Grips Great Britain". That's the last story I did for them. Oh we did one in OxfordUniversity showing the Americans what Oxford University was like. A[…]
[…]erything." And it was before he got his bad asthma attack, but it obviously had started and so he came down and did it and it wasn't right, it didn't grip you in the theatre so we had to re-cast with an Irish actor.Roy Fowler: Oh.E.M. Smedley-Aston: Which was rather disappointing, but I th[…]
[…]s and puffs], you know and you've gotta keep it on there until...You get so used to it...Alan Lawson: Yes...Cyril Page: and...and you've got a pistol grip, to...sort of hold it like that, and when you gotta work it, you pull it down, and you know, you shoot...But when you're actually looking through[…]
[…]auto cue which was right on the front of the thing. And we had never went anywhere without a generator. And we all have always had a two sparks and a grip. And a full set of tracks. So we just never travelled anywhere but in in great style. And it paid off because we could do anything we wanted to. […]
[…]he direction. Even a boss the same team was all through with Tubby, Ken McMillan as assistant and really the operator fingers Macmillan. Bill Padgett grips, the three Jays as the John Taylor and his Merry Men was with the sparkssound The sound was Malcolm Webb, he was the assistant and he retired to[…]
[…]ocumentary that was made by her dad.SPEAKER: M11Well with all respect I think the original is I wouldn't say that much more interesting but it's more gripping because it is real it's it's actuality I knew those poor buggers were going through it.SPEAKER: M4Oh yes. And it was all shot actually at the[…]
[…]to have to polish these carbons. Horrible mucky job to get them to feed smoothly through the solid silver jaws. Now these solid silver jaws with that grip the carbon near the point of light. They would they had solid copper tubes soldered in. And under these copper tubes we used to put rubber connec[…]
