[…]re’s no good arguing with him and I say “You know it is going to be difficult the tree”. So on the Monday morning I arrive from the station, walking up the village and there’s a hold up, a complete traffic block, police cars and all that lot you know. They could not get this tree into th[…]
[…]nbsp; 0:40 Pardon? No. This is the big irony of our lives here. We actually came over because my father was a diplomat. And he was working for the British Indian government, who had sent him here as a supply commissioner for cotton. He was in the situation of cotton import and export[…]
[…]th Staffs, and they married.Now soon after they got married she discovered two things: one was that he was an Irishman and two that he came from a working class family in Staffordshire neither of which facts had evidently obtruded themselves before in their brief courtship. 1916 wasn't a good year t[…]
[…]ntacting and whatnot, I got a job in Movietone as a trainee Newsreel man.Alan Lawson: Why Newsreel?David Prosser: Ah, well, it materialised in my thinking, even as a student and before, that the kind of job I wanted could have been offered at one time by the Navy, and I seriously thought of it for a[…]
[…]nd when you mix with the city I can remember trying to pass the ticket in my hand so the man coming out behind me didn't seed I've gone out on the working train. I can remember that very very vividly. Well I started and the picture was called Born lucky it was directed by Michael Powell produced by […]
[…] Prime Minister of Canada in a film, William Lyon Mackenzie King. And wrote it and edited it and then I […]
[…] old palace years and years ago, and I got the King's suite. Of course it was, "Oh, trust old Pagey […]
[…]o. But Ernie Garside was the Production Manager and he used to wire or phone up the...the um,Commissioner at the gate and said "Give him a good bollocking and send him back again!" you see? So used to go, you know, tail between my legs. Go to the gate and the old Sergeant used to say "Now what...wha[…]
[…] on television not so long ago, about three four years ago.Michael Clarke 7:03 That's why many of us have a copy of it and Michael are looking into doing this series, but not byUnknown Speaker 7:09 me by somebody.Michael Clarke 7:11 And that, of course, brings us […]
[…] I never dared even to put it to him. My parents had separated I may say and my mother had married again, but my father looked at it as practically taking the primrose path. And when I left school I went to France for a year which was really a way of putting off making any decisions. My father thoug[…]
