[…] out of the Army early because that way I was able to get a job, I mean, I had no money and no background, nothing. And I wrote to every single newspaper in the country and abroad…I: Can I stop you a second? Why newspapers? R: Well I…yes, why?&nb[…]
[…]me in our life, we loved it. We didn’t sort of get into theatre, but it was, well, all the music hall stuff and we became terribly blasé, knew all the jokes. And either would say, oh isn’t he terrible, or isn’t that terrible, what a dreadful singer. I mean at the age of nothing. But […]
[…] disk you know, but it was television, it was a new and exciting thing. It really got to me. A […]
[…]. And I couldn't sync it, I didn't know how to sync it. I had to wire the actual motor speaker for the disk you know, but it was television, it was a new and exciting thing. It really got to me. A little while later, I was about thirteen I suppose then, a little while later my parents took me to the[…]
[…] to go back in the vaults, there it was, the new curse. Which went hand in hand with the curse […]
[…] himself stranded in America. Through the war he worked in New York in the Film Department of the ‘International Workers […]
[…]ou were a UCL graduate? CJ: Yup, I am.MW: For some reason I had it in my mind that you were a Cambridge person, because I thought you knew Christopher Frayling very well –CJ: Oh, only latterly. But I tried to get into Cambridge, but unfortunately my school qualifications weren’t […]
[…]portunity for working people: only 5 out of 100 children at state schools in Staffordshire went on to secondary education in 1910. But in that year a new Director of Education was appointed in Staffordshire, who was a Scotsman and he very quickly latched the County onto the opportunities offered by […]
[…]nts being the property of the landlords. So that - as a matter of fact his story is that he had come out of his 'haider' - Hebrew classes - and they knew that the kidnappers were around and he hid himself in a pipe. Then he heard a voice saying to him in Yiddish that he should come out of the pipe, […]
[…]ere you are, who you are, where you come from, your childhood days, anything about your early life?Margaret Thomson 0:25 Yes, I come from New Zealand. My parents came from New Zealand as well. And my grandparents went out to New Zealand in the very early days of the colonisation of New Z[…]
