[…]lled down the window, and there was a station master.Speaker 3  20:45  He knew I was coming, and behind him a Sugar Loaf Mountain, I will remember that. And then a flat drive with a horse turned up at around 11 in the morning and gear, and we had an Iron House and a transformer and a conve[…]
[…]eventy thousand pounds worth of value on the screen...and, um, they said, "Well I think we must get some advice on this." And it so happened that the Honorary Film Advisor to the Ministry of Information of Films Division at that time was Sir Alexander Korda.John Legard: Oh was he? Yes... I didn't...[…]
[…]ol. And a lot of funny, actually, because, because I was always, I always been a bad, bad sailor. At least it was a bad sailor in those days. And I remember the destroyers, of course, they have have a horrible motion, actually, as I can imagine. You know, they're long, slender pencil like things, ac[…]
[…] 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[…]
[…]some months there and then finally was called up and went into REME  Royal electrical and mechanical engineers. Spent, I've never been able to remember exactly how long I've put off my I think it was  about two and a half years. In REME, but after the first six months of my time in REME th[…]
[…]ast of England. And in no time at all I was in charge of these outside broadcasts and I had an assistant, myself. And before the war this was and I remember we did a programme called Billy Welcome which used to tour round all the little country districts in Northumberland, Durham, Cumberland, Westmo[…]
[…]her married again, his second wife was again seriously ill and so I came back to Welwyn for another bit. I did my three Rs there with the school. I remember coming back one day and saying, "I can read, I can read!" Just like that, suddenly, isn't it funny? I don't know why it happened like that, I r[…]
[…]e I went…in my closing days in the Army, I went to an American university at Biarritz, an American university, that the Americans had established for members of their forces, that gave some guest scholarships to British servicemen, and I was lucky enough to go there, and I did a six month course of […]
[…]da, I think I ought to pack..." She said, "Well no, Mickey, I tell you what to do. Don't pack up. If you want to pack up then you've got to apply for Honorary Membership, but if you don't want to apply for Honorary Membership, don't pack up, be a paid up member." And she said, "What you do is, we ke[…]
[…]r the journal. And I did this many times. Also. I did slide shows, film shows, and helped the lecturer in any way I could. And I was awarded with the Honorary Fellow, the big one, Honorary Fellow, delete the fellow, honorary member of the BKSTS. And after many, many, many years passed, I was still d[…]
