Yvette Vanson

[…]d never really met him. And then he, he, I must have applied for a job, or I rang up, or he rang me I think, I think I was, one time in my life I was headhunted. And he said, ‘Come in and meet me,’ and I did, and he was running Bandung File with Darcus Howe. And, he, he said, ‘I’ve seen The Battle F[…]

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 […]

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[…]

Muriel Cole

[…]nbsp;0:23  Here we go, established our lack ofUnknown Speaker  0:27  connection. Rather important.Speaker 2  0:30  Good. Go ahead and tell us you know about yourself in personal details, when you when and where you were,Speaker 3  0:35  right? I first drew breath j[…]

Clyde Jeavons

[…]it was film related and I was a member of the National Film Theatre, I applied and strangely I was taken on. For quite a high level job which was the Head of Film and Television Acquisitions. So I leap-frogged a number of people I realised later. I was interviewed by ErnestLindgren, the original cur[…]

Ann Turner

[…]ey said I live got an exhibition on my general paper alone before the war, but because of the women's intake from ex service, and as I had a Scottish Headmistress, she said I was far too individual for Edinburgh, because they had general classes of about 1000. You know, doing English or early stages[…]

John Aldred

[…] A.W. Watkins he got an interview with Douglas Shearer ( head of sound at MGM) in 1947 and was offered […]

Waseem Mahmood

[…]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[…]
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