Margaret Thomson

[…]my parents told me, Captain Scott held me in his arms, and I was the last baby he probably ever saw. This was quite a legend in my childhood. And I remember recounting it to the admiration of my chums. My mother died when I was five, my brother was three, two. And we were brought up by various […]

Tilly Day

[…]ion she speaks more qualitatively about her life and work, in the second session she is looking through photographs identifying various cast and crew members on different productions. Many of the stories told in the second session repeat material from the first session. Day is 84 years old at the ti[…]

Vivienne Collins

[…] of five to eight and then I went to aprimary school and then I went to a very well known girls’ school called NorthLondon Collegiate.Oh, oh yes, I remember that well.Yes, yes, yes, yes.What, over in Edgware.Yes, in Canons, yes it had just, it had just moved to Canons during the war actually, yes, y[…]

Erica Masters

[…]ger. I have the pleasure of doing the interview, my name is Sydney Samuelson and I am the British Film Commissioner. And my first question is, if I remember correctly, you have an exotic birthplace, am I right or have I got that...?Erica Masters: Absolutely right, I was born in Guatemala. In fact I […]

Barbara (Bimbi) Harris

[…]'. Of course we would be ploughing on with our script and the artists would be going on, and it would still go on. There was a lot of that. I can't remember the director who was one camera. He used to have all his artists come to one camera.RF: A stationary camera you mean?BH: A stationary camera, a[…]

Charles Bennett

[…] walk in there and say, "I used to be a member of you," they'd say, "Never heard of you!" Ha, […]

Jim Peters

[…]s infancy! This would be about, I think we first got a television about 1958/59. STV had been on the go for a year or two years at that time. And I remember we got the television and, gosh, we didn't have an outside aerial. It was an inside aerial and it looked Sputnik with a couple of wires from it[…]

Joy Cuff (née Seddon)

[…]ool. 0:00:58.9 MIKE: Tell me about your passion for art. Where did that come from? 0:01:02.2 JOY: Oh, that was forever. I just... I can't remember when it started I mean I might have been 5, 6, 7. I just always drew. My dad was a commercial artist and he was freelance. I used to go on Satu[…]

Peter T Handford

[…]my nursing home was because my father was in the Army as a chaplain and after he left the Army he moved to Canterbury I believe – obviously I don’t remember that – the first thing I remember was when he was made the vicar of a little country parish in Kent near Edenbridge and we lived there until he[…]
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