Erica Masters

[…] of the British Film Commission, at 70, Baker Street in London, and the interviewee is no less than Miss Erica […]

Esther Harris

[…]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[…]

Jill Balcon (Day-Lewis)

[…]member, although she was such a remote figure in a way, and I never dared speak to her as a little girl sitting demurely, in her drawing room in London. I never asked questions in those days, because we were brought up to be silent and all that. I do remember her saying in her house in London o[…]

Cedric Dawe

[…] Cedric would you tell us when and where you were born?C. D. From the very beginning, I was born at Earlsfield with Irish decent.R. F. What, in South London.C. D. Yes. From there to Harrow and from there to Brighton. I haven’t got very clear memories of that.R. F. What was the family background? Wha[…]

Marion Grierson (Taylor)

[…] in my second year at Glasgow University, they moved to Edinburgh and I transferred to Edinburgh University and graduated. After graduating I went to London to try and find a job as many Scots had done before me. It was a time of high unemployment everywhere. Highly qualified people, people more qua[…]

Oswald (Ossie) Morris

[…]if he's getting a bit close but you couldn't with De Bries The man in charge of it. De Bries there was a man called Shatzow it's a J said O W and his London representative was Mr fuzhowasky stuff was he asking and we'd have a lot of trouble with focus with those De Bries there was a ball went throug[…]

Anne Fleming

[…]t about provenance as well and calculating-AF: Yes, absolutely, and regional knowledge, regional knowledge. Yes.MW: It's not necessarily connected to London.AF: It’s not. Not at all. 18.35MW: Which is also a healthy thing. So your job was evolving in the Imperial War Museum.AF: Yeah.MW: At some poin[…]

Robin Walsh

[…]er  0:43  And the place of birthUnknown Speaker  0:47  I would suspect theUnknown Speaker  0:50  birth certificate says Londonderry I call it Derek.Unknown Speaker  0:54  And your nationality. I'm British. I have a British passport.Unknown Speaker  1:00 &[…]
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