Frances Cockburn

[…] terrible outbursts. It was a very rich woman that  liked to be recorded. Don't you remember?Margaret Thompson  15:42  I remember, Amy Johnson.Frances Cockburn  15:45  Was I don't remember her.Margaret Thompson  15:46  I think well, it was one of those women flyers[…]

Peter Tanner

[…] him and slammed the phone down. He said I' m sending you to the head of publicity, he gets rid of me, so another page boy was summoned. Incidentally Johnny Goodman could have been the pageboy because he won't mind my saying but he started as a page boy at Shepherd's Bush, but it would have been a b[…]

Chris Kelly

[…]peration crossbow. And they follow the boys thing. Anyway, the editor on this film called The Alphabet murders, which starred Tony Randall, edited by John Victor Smith. And John said, Would you like to come work with me? On help, he went to edit help at Twickenham film studios. I said yes, no, I'd l[…]

Joe Mendoza

[…]n't have enough so we had there a whole lot me, but they were all made on the budget. And then I thought we better have a carpet. I got in touch with john lewis or something like that to come up and said, You know, I told him I said, Look, we want to carpet, that gave me a car. So we got a telephone[…]

Daphne Anstey (nee Lily)

[…]ht of the ACTT History Project, Daphne Anstey widow of Edgar, editor with the National Film Board of Canada under her maiden name, Lily, interviewers JohnLegard [JL] and Gloria Sachs [GS], recorded in her home, in Hampstead Garden Suburb, 3 May 1989. Recordist Alan Lawson [AL].SIDE 1, TAPE 1JL: Daph[…]

Barry Cryer

[…] public wrong moments. I look back with alarm at what I was doing. But I have had proper jobs. And I was a stagehand at Leeds Empire Theatre, because Johnny, GM, one of my mentors, the stage manager, heard I was having a bad time and offered me a job as a stagehand. So, that really got me into the a[…]

Betty Willingale

[…]teen going on ten really. And I was interviewed by a formidable lady called Florence Milnes, who was The BBC Librarian, she was a great friend of Sir John Reith, and she told me in no uncertain terms there was no sort of job going in Broadcasting House, which I found very dashing because Broadcastin[…]

Alan Izod

[…]zod  36:17  yes, it was. I met them most of them initially at that at that studio, I think and such, so those are mentioned and people like john Taylor. So um, they were they were some of them were running their own companies outside or doing things like working for what's it called? reali[…]
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