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[…] and earn a living, you know, the usual mistake that people make.SF: So you never went to Birmingham University?No. One...SF: They had some very good historians there like Roy Pascal and a whole clutch of very fine historians at Birmingham.Well, the history mistress was very keen I went and it proba[…]

[…]Third Man (1949) and Oliver! (1968) for which he won an Academy Award for Best Director. 21 Kevin Brownlow (1938-) is an English filmmaker and film historian whose work focuses on the preservation of films from the silent era. He won an Academy Honorary Award in 2010. I: Yes, he also worked at[…]

[…] a couple of books on the first world war.  Anyway, Barbara Tuckman’s Guns of August, I think was one of the books I’d read and I’m 04:00 not an historian.  And I was terrified.  Absolutely terrified.  Anyway we just sorted these out, we sat there and sorted, and I got an assista[…]

[…]mous journalists there doing their war service. Patrick Gordon Walker who became ap. 10Labour minister was there, the Industrial Editor, Alan -famous historian is now head of one of the Oxford colleges - he was there, Alan Bullock. My memory for names it is not old age - when I was seventeen I could[…]

[…]erness with John Bird, John Wells, and John Fortune over the years because of my association with Cambridge Footlights. And John Bird, wild, military historian among other things, except it takes him a year to write a thirty-minute script. And he’d sell the BBC the idea of doing a series which we di[…]