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[…]95 was when we got the Battle of the Somme inscribed on the Unesco Register: we screened the film at a gala screening in 2006. Actually timed for the London Film Festival rather than the anniversary of the battle, but not far off the anniversary of the centenary of the original screening, with a liv[…]

[…]special service - special duties - and you can be allowed to wear civilian clothes." That's how I started, about six months before I was demobbed, on London Town as the assistant director, which had that great comedian Sid Field, who was such a wonderful person in himself.Rodney Giesler: And Kay Ken[…]

[…]when I was four or five, but I can't remember much about that, but I can remember Hereford. And I took my exams, and some, I sometimes had to come to London for those, that was, you know, a huge excursion to come to London to do an exam. And so I did a lot of that, and at music, at school I did musi[…]

[…] you give us a little run down on your early days of where you were born etc and school and so on.PH I was born in an Army nursing home in Hampstead, London on 21 March 1919. The reason for the Army nursing home was because my father was in the Army as a chaplain and after he left the Army he moved […]

[…]ers very little about one's background. But I was born in Sheffield in June 1926. My father had just got a job as lecturer in economic history at the London School of Economics. And they moved to London in the late summer of that year, so I didn't have any experience of Sheffield beyond the first si[…]

[…]JECTMF: I'm a Liverpudlian as you may gather from a problem I have with certain words like fur-her? but otherwise I spent most of my life down in the London area. I think at this stage I would have been influenced in my career by my late father, Leslie Faber - I think it might be opportune to tell y[…]

[…]aching way down in the South West ofCornwall, near Land’s End, and that's where I grew up. I went to the grammar schoolat Penzance and then on to The London College of Secretaries, in Grosvenor Place, where I worked very hard and went out in the big world. And my first real job was with a Harley Str[…]