[…]re doing Oliver Twist, Ossie Morris was there and they had a big blimp and there was a handbar and it wasn’t until later on when you got the moy head with the handles you know, became… and of course, when they got the blimp up and they were looking through the camera, then course, when you’re r[…]
[…]ould be and I think, from that moment (it was a very unique programme actually - it was a live lunchtime programme. It went out every day, which was ahead of its time indeed), but I always remember sitting in the audience at being absolutely amazed at what went on behind the scenes! The cameras, the[…]
[…]ith Bill Cotton Junior, as he was then, we were the two youngest producers in the BBC. Because he was a song plugger before he became Assistant Head of Light Entertainment.DARROL BLAKE: What was your first production?NEVILLE WORTMAN: My first production was a thing called “Like Jaz[…]
[…]remember what it was?JK: Up For the Cup. It was another tarty piece and I was wanting to get away from the bad girl image I wanted to play a straight header. I got very tired of this after Good Time Girl. I said every time the studio saw the line “girl enters in cami knickers” they sent for me. I sw[…]
[…]rote my essay and delivered it and then did some drawings and went in to see him, with the drawings, and I put them on his desk and he threw back his head and laughed, which was always a very good sign with him that he’d liked what you had done. And he said “Est ca va Jocelyn, bien, merci.” And then[…]
[…] could get small parts I went into Penge, Coventry and various places earning very little money. And sometimes they stuck a grey wig on my head and put a moustache on where I play an older person. Another time I will be an assistant and stage manager to the director of the show. And, but […]
[…]wn job because by this time I had enough of the set-up there and I went out and I got this job in the Strand Palace Hotel as a Commis Chef and my old headmaster said to me ‘well, you can go to Art School and all that but it wasn’t really explained or anything like that, you know, if you got a grant […]
[…]anything. That was all done by the civil service, called the Naval Store Department, and my father was in it and finally got to the point when he was head of it. But his work took him around the various dockyards, from Chatham, Portsmouth, Plymouth...up to Scotland, and we tended to travel round, ac[…]
