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[…]bunch of – you know, beyond the Ritz - I've never seen anything like it, right. So the eyes are being opened up: broadcasting; meeting every European nationality some of them couldn't speak English. Putting out news talks in Czecho-Slovak, in Polish, German, French no problem. Spanish. We weren’t do[…]

[…]scene, how they organized the newsreels, and the effect that it had.Speaker 1  12:11  Well, the thing that I knew was I was a member of the National Union of Journalists,Roy Fowler  12:21  and I came into, we're talking now, of when, what issues,Speaker 1  12:24  the be[…]

[…] were able to go back and do a sequel, a follow-up, and show what had happened to people’s lives, and it was, well, it was quite depressing. The, the coalfields had been devastated. Whatever one thinks about Arthur Scargill, he was right. They closed hundreds of pits, hundreds of thousands of jobs. […]

[…]wler  38:09  I agree with that. Yes, they couldn't behave. It's misspent and it's, ah,Keith Ewart  38:14  well, it's misspent the National Health Service. That's the trouble everywhere. The trouble is, where do you slash? But, I mean, I quite agree, but it's not in misread. There[…]

[…]k?Peter – Green Park was Merton Park. Yes, it was the same as the Strand, and in fact…what had happened to Strand – it had been taken over by British National, and moved to British National a few years in Elstree, and er…so we were literally in the same cutting rooms and everything, it was…Interview[…]

[…]Organisation took a crash because I have a very fond regard for J Arthur Rank he did make an effort to establish a British film industry with an international presence and he was very, very indulgent of the people of whom he employed – the so called ‘talent’.  A lot of them, well Gabby I s[…]