[…]t programme and the regional programmes which developed into other programmes eventually.Roy Fowler: Was it called the light programme, wasn't it the national programme?Reg Sutton: Yes the National Programme and the regional programmes. It became the Light and Home Service during the war. So it was […]
[…], [Laughter] I was a special factor really. I’d become very left wing and well, comparatively left wing, very left wing, and I didn’t want to do National Service. I didn’t because at that time we had our soldiers were out shooting people in Cyprus and, you know, and Tanganyika andROY LOCKE[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]t this. I think I was always born to be with pavements. RL: 12:15 I always assume that you, sort of, you'd got, become, involved with National Hunt racing when you lived in Ireland. GM:  12:23 I did, yeah, because my dad used to have a bet. He used to go to the r[…]
[…]one year. I've got in those books with all the pictures, I could show you his, his set. And Ridley Scott today is one of, you know, the, the top international film directors. It's surprising, you know, like so many people in Current Affairs and Monitor who, the, the young directors who did[…]
[…]he papers that my mother has been killed because they recognise the blond hair and the Musquash coat . Fortunately , we got on the CPR, not the Grand National there wasn't my mother's fault . So we did get there safely. But we did cross the prairies and it took the 14 days we went all through the Ro[…]
[…] – what was his name?SF: Joe Erskine?Was it Joe... Anyway, whatever. So that was, I suppose, my first opening up to other cultures or other nationalities.SF: Did you experience racism? I don’t mean on you, but on them during the schoolyears? Was there much racism?I wasn’t aware of it, no. […]
