[…]hey wanted to teach me about all sorts of things I had no interest in because I'm an engineer. So they were teaching me things that just went over my head. I wasn't interested. But when I got to Evesham, everything they were teaching me was focused on television or radio or engineering of all aspect[…]
[…]ping and looking at the issues that affected them.Speaker 1 33:00 Just as you were mentioning that that's the first thing that came to my head about the immigration as the policies change. People were always thinking about how do I call my relatives over or people getting married? And ho[…]
British Entertainment History Project Interview No. 710 Interviewee: Anne Hanford, formerly Head of Television Library Services at the BBCInterviewer: Sue MaldenTranscriber: Linda Hall-Shaw SUE MALDEN: Thank you very much for talking to us Anne.ANNE HANFORD: […]
[…]because he used to talk to me occasionally. And there was nothing in it for him to talk to a boy of seven and a half or eight. He was a redheaded man. And I then heard my grandfather say, you know, and lowering his voice in a conspiratorial manner, he said, you know that Flynn […]
[…]p. But the directors then of course knew nothing about the technical side. People like George More O'Ferrall, if things went wrong he used to put his head down and burst into tears and then come up again and said 'It's still going on'. Of course we would be ploughing on with our script and the artis[…]
[…]ose days there wasn't any dubbing. All sound was recorded direct. So the sea had to be recorded at the same time as the dialogue. I had a kind of drumhead and pounds and pounds of lead shoe and I stood at the side of the set enthusiastically moving this drum backwards and forwards to produce the sou[…]
