[…]cognize it as a factor in my mental makeup that I'm not particularly coherent in my in my range of attitudes about crucial things – war, peace, love, nationalism and so on you know.Colin Moffat: Of course I heard you mention it but because of your very much later large film about the army, the thesi[…]
[…]rn a little bit about real things about elephants. It was a funny film, too. However, when we got there, we were going to work in a park called Tsavo National Park,[96] which is where two remarkable people lived called Daphne and David Sheldrick.[97] David had already started, and she looked after o[…]
[…]u know, and I was next to him as this gentle Oliver, next door in my velvet suit and this close up picture was was printed the following morning in a national paper. We were doing some Dickens' birthday celebrations in a galleried inn we used to do it every year, I think it's still there in the boro[…]
[…]fluential. We had a cultural invasion of world theatre in the 50’s. Many of which were on television. In 1955 Sunday night at 10 o’clock did Yugoslav National Ballet Company, Antonio and his ballet Espangnol, the Bulgarian state Song and Dance company at the Winter T Garden and the Chinese Theatre c[…]
[…]e deck and part of it takes place below deck, and so we built that ourselves. And I always remember, because I went to see it about a year ago at The National, and it was nowhere near as effective as Peter's production in this little theatre. Because he had below, he had just a board (like that) and[…]
[…]he circumstances were so incredibly different in those years, and everything that we have got used to in the last 40 years didn’t exist, there was no National Film School and there was no National Film Theatre, not much writing on films. Certainly the whole business of film criticism which now exist[…]
[…]t came later in my teens when I went into, I went on stage to start with and then I did odd things in films for Warner Brothers and BIP [British International Pictures] and I worked a lot with Lupino Lane.RF: Just to wrap up on school did you have any encouragement on writing there. VG: Not spe[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
