[…]thday, I wanted to cinema To graph machine, and all we could think of my parents would think I was buying me one at damages, which was a big store in London. Now, these machines were very crude. And I've soon worked out I mean, they first of all, the first machine I had didn't even have a shutter on[…]
[…]ith the full length films. So Discomania was born. Now, the reason that Discomania was was chosen was because Oscar owned a couple of discotheques in London. And so as this was his passion and he had access to to the venues, he decided to make a story film about a young Walter Mitty character set in[…]
[…]l, not exactly a revival but a return to the West End Of The Song Of Norway which had been a great success and had done a tour and was coming back to London for a limited Season. So I conducted that at the Palace Theatre, that was my first West End showTd: What year was thatAlexander Faris : That wa[…]
[…]d to go back I tried to work it so that it was the weekend before so I could bring them back with me. But no, they had to arrive. And then we went to London, so I had to go back on my own. And as I will I'll get up late and I'll wander up. We weren't going to start until Saturday afternoon. So I'll […]
[…]. Right, Margie, a little bit of your family background. First of all, before we startSpeaker 2  0:20  family background well I was born in London in North London in 92, as you said, and I was about four and a half when the war broke out in 39. And so I was evacuated twice, once when I was[…]
[…]s, there used to be a certain amount of quota that the non big five companies, ITV was organised into the big five and the rest and the big five were London Weekend, Thames Television, Granada, Central and I've forgotten the other one! I: Yorkshire. R: Yorkshire, thank you! And STV and oth[…]
[…]0:00 MDOK Bernie, can you tell me a bit about your background, where were you born and bred: BAI was born in a council estate in South East London… 17th of August, 1933 and lived there until 1948, then moved to another council estate. But left school 1950. I had two years’ trai[…]
[…]what people went through.SF: Yes.So, so my first political thing was anti-apartheid and we did recordings and goodness knows what. And then I came to London to do this postgraduate degree at the archive and got involved almost via people I respected. It’s funny this whole thing about how you get inv[…]
[…]0, Maurice Carter, art director, interviewed by Roy FowlerSIDE ONE, TAPE ONERoy Fowler: When and where were you bornMaurice Carter: I was born in the London, in 1913, and I had the normal sort ofschooling, Gladstone, and I eventually went to an art school when I was 15.Roy Fowler: That was always pa[…]
[…]ling did you have?Gordon McCallum : Well we went to live in Hove and I was at a small private school there for some time. Then my father came back to London to work and I had a couple of years at Clarke's College which was destined to make me a suitable candidate for some kind of business work, and […]