David Attenborough

[…] funds committee or anything, because he believed strongly in conventional universities and it was a university college attached to the University of London. So effectively I was a boy who lived in the Midlands, LeicesterNorman Swallow: And schoolingDavid Attenborough: Again my father was rather kee[…]

Bill Cotton

[…]n Berkeley Square,These Foolish Things and Goodnight Vienna. But he had become Eric unquestionably a drunk and his wife ran a club in the West End of London and he was always in this club slagging off people in the BBC as much as he could.And the story goes that when Beadle was made director of tele[…]

Bruce Anderson

[…]people well meaning, but In my estimation, not very bright. And Fred Varley, formerly an ambience driver and then a rigor, became a sound engineer at London Weekend Television. I'm told, wasn't. Again, wasn't. Maybe it runs in the trade, I hope not, sound recordings. I'm pretty good. He wasn't very […]

Frank Littlejohn

[…]sp;me was  that water was given anumberAC: 147, wasn't it. BH: And the water in London was Ll47.  It is funny, because we found, but wedidn't find “til 20 years later&nbs[…]

Peggy Hyde-Chambers (nee Rignold)

[…]train there and there’s a man who’s going demented ‘How can you all sit here while people are dying’? It’s funny ithappened again in Oxford Street in London and there had been a bomb and there wasa man saying ‘How can you sit here as though nothing’s happened people have being killed’? And we were a[…]

Guido Coen

[…] a maximum of a year, and we stayed here ever since.SC : WHy was thatGC : My father was connected in business to a cousin of his who had an office in London, a rather large office representing italian manufacturers and my father was the link in Milan. And this cousin of his died of a heart attack su[…]
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