[…]assed. After I was at Oxford, I was wandering around wondering what my life was going to be, trying different things, seeing what it was like being a journalist and so on. Then I suddenly thought, to hell with it all I'm interested in films.SC: When did it start this interest in films. Did you go to[…]
[…]d this, last 10 years, have been traumatic. The double standards which exist in Parliament and in the country about trade unionism. You know, the the journalists who all hold their ticket, their NUJ ticket, and wouldn't dream are going to work without it, because they'd be kicked out on their backsi[…]
[…]hat we were always canvassing people within and outside the unit for, for subjects for films, in particular, a case in point of course is the African journalists who worked for the African weekly, and I think we got one or two subjects from them, people like Lawrence van Baker?, for instance, intere[…]
[…]se I did a tremendous amount of filming on all kinds of things. I did a lot, I did the very first series Norman Swallow did with a man called Reed, a journalist, I photographed all those, it was about industry, I was fairly ambidextrous as far as style was concerned. I did the equivalent of feature […]
[…]ther chap called George Aitken who eventually became a big shot in the international brigade, you know. George Aitken - his son is now one of the top journalists on The Guardian.Q Oh well, he’s famous isn’t he? Ian Aitken?A Ian Aitken, yes. Oh I knew him as I used to take him on the heath and p[…]
[…]d got a job and how pleased I was and how I was earning £1.00 a week, her face somewhat fell because she'd originally thought of me being a lawyer or journalist or something exalted like that. It reminds of the Desmond Dickinson story "don't tell my nother, I'll working in the film industry, she thi[…]
[…] SF: Yes. I can remember so vividly what a brilliant journalist he was. SF: A wonderful man, yes. And when […]
[…] appears to be Antoni Slonimski (1895 -1976), a Polish poet, journalist, playwright, and prose writer. He spent the war years […]
[…] she said she’d met an American lady who was a journalist who said she’d like to know about Arthur Woods, […]
