Pat Jackson

[…] magazine. And of course, I got flustered and lost my head completely! I was in there an hour and a […]

Pat Jackson

[…] magazine. And of course, I got flustered and lost my head completely! I was in there an hour and a […]

Bernie Andrews

[…]ds, but if you genuinely liked pop music…  you were regarded as a complete… mad person…  I had things written on my annual reports from the head of department saying that…  I was…  I ‘ve got to think of the word…  what’s over-enthusiastic?..   Nutty about something[…]

Julia Cave

[…]Gordon Watkins was in charge of it, and… No! Gordon Watkins and Tony Essex were in charge of the Great War bit, and Alastair Millen was at that stage head of those sort of projects. And Graceland and Goldie the head of Department.  I think you must have been there Norman at that time. Norm[…]

Michael Colomb

[…]encies but usually they let me sleep through it. And on the very I went up knocked on all the doors all the studios I went up to see is it D C Sewell head of sound. The time they were producing the wicked Lady 1946. Mason & Grainger  to Ealing. I didn't even get an interview at Ealing. The […]

John Schlesinger

[…]Hall, Hampstead to begin with. And then I was sent away to boarding school aged about 8 to 9, awful idea. And I was sent to a school, St Edmonds, Hindhead. There was a rather eccentric headmaster called Ivor Bully who made us salute the cherry trees outside the front door. We would have to go round […]

Lois Singer

[…]sly, in Birmingham, that's very common. Lois Singer  2:07  I had my first real long term permanent job as a secretary to the headmistress of a girl's private school. And when the headmistress retired, and the school closed, I was casting about for what to do next. And that w[…]

Joan Kemp-Welch

[…]uch as that have ceased to exist, haven't they?Joan Kemp-Welch: Yes, because you see, they would book up, these people would book up for a year ahead. And you would go and they would look after you like a mother. There was a wonderful woman called Vina in Edinburgh and she - Peter stayed with m[…]

Wendy Toye

[…]e been. Anyway, he insisted on going for a take when we weren’t quite ready. And he did this take and he cut in the middle of it, and he screamed his head off at the extras. He didn’t realise they were extras I don’t think, I don’t think he knew which were which really but he screamed his head off a[…]

David Attenborough

[…] these senior universities you didn't deserve to go unless you got a scholarship. It wasn't a question of his paying for it, though the salary of the head of a provincial university was pretty low, but there are, no he would have paid for it had it been the case, but he said if you want that privile[…]
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