Lois Singer

[…]er became a producer, and was involved in various quiz games thought up by him and Edward J. Mason, who wrote for BBC Midland Region, and they became national names on radio. Also, while I was working here, I met an actor called Antony Kiri. And at the time, I didn't think this was of any importance[…]

Ann Turner

[…]art in the sport the sporting item in third February 63.Sorry, I stopped in on the 24th of November 63. We did a short caption item on the exhibition National Portrait Gallery called the winter Queen about Elizabeth of Bohemia. James the first's eldest daughter and this was written by Roy? Strong la[…]

Bill Cotton

[…]because when I got out at Shorncliffe it was very much the hubbub of normal kind of boring life of people, and of course the war had ended as I said, national service hadn't started, it was just plain conscription or volunteering so you didn't know when you was coming out. And there was nothing orga[…]

Barry Cryer

[…]her was my family background. And she was completely supportive. All the way through. I was remember when I did my very first job at the city writers Theatre in Leeds. It was strippers and I was bottom of the barrel. My very first job very nervous. So no decent woman would be seen in that theatre. I[…]

Pete Murray

[…]out of the Luxembourg library of The Winter’s Tale which I had never read and I went to Brussels on the stage of the (Time 20:01  )    National Theatre Brussels.  I did an audition and he said “It’s quite obvious you’ve never read this play.”  I said “No you can’t read Shake[…]

Karel Reisz

[…]AFNorman Swallow:Czech squadron?Karel Reisz:3.08In fact there was not a separate training squadron, I was trained in an international, we had Dutch and we had Turks. The Turks came in right at the end of the war and[…]

Edward Dryhurst

[…] The leading man was a young man called Finden[?] whose father was a Fleet Street editor, the editor of one of the Sunday papers. He too was a callow youth, he knew nothing whatever about acting. And that was the way they went about their business. Pearson probably thought that the combination of At[…]

Joe Busuttil

[…]my old man was a crazy bugger in a lot of ways.  And so my mother lost a brother and that and she died when I was twelve and then we went on the National Assistance in those days which was horrendous.  And when I was fifteen - I was sitting in the cinema, the one escape we had, getting bac[…]
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