[…]e two big agencies. And he said, Well, why don't you get it all up and coming done? work with us. And I always had another ambition to be a political journalist. and observe your statement or something that sort of later listener I would have liked. And so experimentally, I went and worked there at […]
[…]Christian name. John Myers was in town, and Carter was at the studio. And that was wonderful, because I had to take everybody round, all the visiting journalists, and everything, and I got to know everybody in that way. And I was very lucky. That was from May 1935 to October 1935, at which point Ale[…]
[…]ganized the newsreels, and the effect that it had.Speaker 1 12:11 Well, the thing that I knew was I was a member of the National Union of Journalists,Roy Fowler 12:21 and I came into, we're talking now, of when, what issues,Speaker 1 12:24 the beginning of the war[…]
[…] film-maker and socialist throughout her career. Having worked as a journalist through the 1930s, she entered the British film industry […]
[…].Speaker 1 2:17 So what did your parents do? And how did they influence your career? Well,Speaker 2 2:20 both my parents were journalists. So I sort of grew up in what they were all journalists. So they were very much there was an there was a tremendous need in those days for[…]
[…]s a notorious killer on trial in Glasgow for seven murders, they'd a report on that every night! A fellow called Bill Knox, who was a very well-known journalist of the period, and author and he came from the Court every night and did a colour piece from the High Court - very successfully. So they we[…]
[…]that the pre-production meetings finishes, etc. So, the talks kind of broke down. We had more meetings in the diary. And there was a guy working as a journalist. You'll know his name at Thames Television at the time, called Marc Wadsworth RL: 9:47 Yes, yes, right, GM: […]
[…]ard it before.McG: What was your earliest ambition?HF: To be a newspaper man. That’s how I got in showbusiness, inadvertently.McG: You wanted to be a journalist?HF: [laughing] yes, yes. That’s how it all really began. I was doing a job. My first job was coiling armatures, which were part of, for air[…]
