[…] there. Which year was about 1943. Again, it was the This Happy Breed was just wrapping up. Henry the fifth that just returned from Ireland, the Way Ahead was just starting. And I was after a day or two put onto the crew for The Way Ahead, I spent two weeks there. But as I mean, every moment of thos[…]
[…]nvolved in them. My opportunity came when - I was a member of the boy scouts, and there was an opportunity for me to do something about that when the head of our local scouts for some reason was approached by a film company for some extras for a boy scout film they planned to make called Boy Scouts […]
[…] the ambulance with this poor man. And the smell of burnt flesh was horrible. But the point was he was such a jolly character that he was he was lightheaded with pain and he was saying, Norman there's a race at 230 at so and so and so and so you must back the so and so and so and so. And when we got[…]
[…] you back us? Jonathan Balcon 13:17 Yup. I think that in those early days I'm sure that's what happened. But then of course we jump ahead very slightly. and we get I think it's to 1923, '24 and he and Victor Saville and various other people including ... Oh, goodness, it'll come to […]
[…]rithms, which I hated, because I, I can't add up. And I can only I can do things tremendously well, approximately. So I used to get the answers in my head, approximately, I got on tremendously well with the old man. And I never used any log tables, because we were, you know, in fundamental terms, I […]
[…]Sir Lancelot Spratt in Doctor in the House. We ended up in the theatre looking at some rushes of the Schlieren Process. And I met a very young blonde-headed kid there: Peter de Normanville. And Arthur said there was nothing at the moment and keep in touch. But nothing happened.John Legard: You said […]
[…]you know, where he's saying, you know, money is just a story. It's just that we believe it. I remember about 20 years ago having an argument with the head of the Bank of Santander saying we could decide anything with money or, and and he was truly horrified. But it's just a story. And so you can hav[…]
[…]se was on was in constant use of one kind or another, I think Maxwell Knight, a BBC broadcaster.John Taylor 35:55 He turned out to be the head of one section of EMI five orPaddy Carey 35:59 six at the end, I thought he turned out to be me he was pinched by EMI five or somethi[…]