[…]ith my mum. I went with my mum to see Kess when I was 13, and I remember seeing it at the ABC in Edinburgh and being completely knocked out by it. I knew her. I knew who Ken was before. You know, when I was 13, I knew exactly who Ken was and I and the other thing about Ken as well was when I was at […]
[…]ult, so we had to take a long time to think about it, and we eventually did get married in 1976 much to the horror of all our family and friends who knew it would never last. And I'm happy to say it lasted until his death 20 nearly 23 years later. During that time, he then became quite frustrated th[…]
[…]le was the enormous travelling, Iwas living in Hounslow and travelling to to Islington, so it was travelling on theUnderground and then a tram up the New North Road.And Roy Fowler: How long did that take you on each morningMaurice Carter: About an hour and a half to two hoursRoy Fowler: So you were […]
[…] that was sort of matter of fact, you didn't really bother that. But coming back to a strange school with strange kids, I was bullied because I was a newcomer, strange and so that was, that was, that was the worst thing, not the German bombing. That was, I would see there were, we were right on the […]
[…] born in Stamford Hill 31st of December 1930And schooling ? at the age of seven declares war, which was located in Winchester, it moved to service to news and I was there for about five years. Okay, anyway, your your listeners assume for the moment you're at school, your favourite subjects and the r[…]
[…]he brought order to a rather revolutionary gang of students. And when I was 5 or something, he moved to Leicester University College which was then a new red-brick, newly founded, city supported, there was a note university funds committee or anything, because he believed strongly in conventional un[…]
[…]nbsp;in the army. I was inPalestine in 1946. And I actually saw the job advertised in the New Statesman. Now the background to that was that I got the New Statesman sent by Dick Crossman who[…]
[…]s very different now but it was awfully nice then.LW: Did you come from a show business background?WT: No, there was nobody in it at all as far as I knew that was anything to do with show business at all.LW: What first attracted you to that?WT: It was really my mother so wanted to do it herself, she[…]
[…]g is that his name escapes me, it was John, and I cannot at this moment remember it. But he was the man who virtually invented independent frame at Pinewood; do you know who I mean? I wrote to him too and on the strength of the past acquaintanceship with my father, he said well come and see me, brin[…]
[…] after three years with the Met Office, I changed career and joined the BBC as a technical assistant – so, trainee engineer. And, at the time, all I knew was that they were recruiting for posts in television in London, so that would have been, really, Television Centre and Lime Grove, as they were, […]
