The copyright of this interview is vested in the BECTU History Project. LindsayAnderson, film director, theatre producer, interviewer Norman Swallow, recorded on 18 April, 1991SIDE 1Norman Swallow: First of all, when and where were you born?Lindsay Anderson: I was born on April 17th, 1923 in Bangalo[…]
[…] And from there I went to Keebles College, Oxford, a degree in modern history. Then military service, in the army, Duke of Cornwall'sLight Infantry, I'd never been to Cornwall in my life but that didn't really matter.It was after […]
[…] the war correspondent had a sort of ambiguous situation. He wasn't actually in the armed forces. He was still a civilian but in uniform and given an honorary rank without any executive power. I mean you'd have an honorary rank of captain but you had no executive authority. And you were in fact a ci[…]
[…])Interview Date: 1989-05-11Interviewers: John Taylor, Stephen PeetInterviewee: Sir Denis FormanTape 1, Side 1Denis Forman: I was born in the lowlands of Scotland in Dumfriesshire in the Parish which hadthe remarkable name of Kirkpatrick Joxta near the Village of Beattock. The house was a biggishcoun[…]
