[…] and they asked me if I’d like to take over actually dishing out the records, so I said, yes please and I learned some of these names by heart and I knew the records numbers Ciraphone-HBC13 would have something like Farid al-Altrash singing ‘Al Rabeih’ which means ‘The Heart’. And by this time[…]
[…]kind of milieu, which specifically involved our revival of interest in Hollywood or, rather a re-evaluation of Hollywood that came to us as a kind of new interest so my 04.10 first passionate involvement in the movies was really around this, diving into Hollywood cinema. I think it’s interesting to […]
[…]re you were born. SONG When you went we went to school sort of thing. Okay well I came from a farming family and lived in.SPEAKER: M10Sussex. Born in New Haven and my father. Rented a farm at Sheffield Park just north of Lewes and it was a remarkable house. The farmhouse it was 800 years old court w[…]
[…]y in the world. It's the language. We beat them. And therefore all the great talents like lubrigs and so on, all emigrated to Hollywood because they knew there was a greater chance to expand. But Ufa, in those days, had some enormous talents, very exciting, I think, perhaps the most talented studio […]
[…]we did is we Donald had a big box hole car, an open car, and we put four two K's, I believe we had into the back, into the boot, and some cable and a Newman Sinclair and the tripod with a gyro head, and Donald and Bucha Cooper and myself went out to make this film. WeUnknown Speaker  16:22 &nbs[…]
[…] gave you about three and a half hours entertainment which you could just squeeze in another film if you wanted to after that, which was opposite the new Victoria Cinema in Edinburgh.John Taylor: Your parents were quite happy you went to the cinema.Jimmy Gilbert: I think so. My mother was a sort of […]
[…]across the road at five o'clock on, on Mondays for the meeting the next day for the... And it was an interesting though thing, it was like, we need a new transmitter, or there, we, we had War correspondents and we need another one. And I can remember names like Richard Dimbleby, and Wynford Vaughan […]
[…]ct.Interviewer Norman SwallowRecorded on the 21st January 1992. DISC 1 Side One Track 1NS: First of all Maggie, when and where were you born?MD: Newcastle on Tyne 1922. I am the same age as the BBC (both laugh).NS: What kind of schooling did you do?MD: I went to school very early, I think you w[…]
[…]y Lou and I left Eastern? in an air raid and took the train to Glasgow, and got on a ship called the Cameroonian which was in convoy with evacuees to New York, and took us 10 days to get to New York with outsight of  land. It was actually torpedoed and sunk on its return journey.Alan Lawson &nb[…]
[…] Polish Corridor because the Balcons were at the end of it!  Anyway, he, the family was a middle-class Birmingham family, my grandfather, who I knew quite well, Louis, was an extraordinary man who never really did a stroke of work all through his life. My grandmother I never knew, Mick's mother[…]
