[…] I started, about six months before I was demobbed, on London Town as the assistant director, which had that great […]
[…]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[…]
[…]where was the factory? By the way, you did mention it, but the factorySpeaker 1 37:36 was at Bendin Valley in off Garrett lane, southwest London.Roy Fowler 37:43 Oh, yes, Wandsworth, that's right,Speaker 1 37:47 yes, it was there because the wandle went right by i[…]
[…]bsp;Well, one of the, one of the things that the character that Johnny Depp plays, one of his dreams, is to, he wants to be an Eskimo. He's read Jack London novels, and he wants to go and fish through a hole in the ice. And he's unfortunately saddled with selling Cadillacs. So he's in a Cadillac dea[…]
[…]Was that about the time of Ecuador. Donald Wilson 32:05And the day we it was it was due to be a wonderful evening opening in the middle of London, which I went to was the day that Edward made his farewell speech. So you can imagine the film didn't do very well. Donald Wilson 32[…]
[…] 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 […]
[…] big story in Glasgow and ITN wanted a story as well so the film would be cut for ITN, it would taken along to telecine and transmitted, sent down to London and they would record whatever they wanted but if it was a late piece, that film had to come back and be inserted in to the running order. It h[…]
[…]n’t you really?Yes, thank goodness.Y es.Yes.Tell us a little bit about your family? Where were you born first of all? Where was...?Oh the East End of London.Really?There’s no question. My mother came from, originally from Warsaw I think and therewas, you know, there was the usual immigration nonsens[…]