[…]ed the life of Riley, the British did too. I mean, there was a war going on, obviously, because we kept hearing about it. And there were cartoons and news reels, and things like that cartoons with anti German anti Hitler.But as a child, I grew up in the most wonderful way. I was born in a very beaut[…]
[…]’, she said ‘Yes’ and I said ‘Did you come from Glasgow’. She said ‘No, my husband came from Glasgow.’ I said ‘Well, I am related to him in a way, I knew his father, his father had a shopin Glasgow as well and occasionally I ran an odd message for him and I maybe got a sixpence at the end of the wee[…]
[…] in America, whose last major series was ‘Shock of the New’, for BBC in 1980. And so, I’ve been coming […]
[…] had the great privilege of having it as my job to watch film every day. MW: Was there a predecessor to you in this role or had you gone to this new thing? AF: Well Clive Coultass had been appointed as Keeper of Film Programming. Well yes. Keeper of Film Programming the year before and had[…]
[…]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 […]
[…] first time, I mean in London during the war I’d seen the occasionalblack baby in the arms of a black... but they tended to be, even at that age one knew that they were more... they were clearly diplomatic people I was seeing, but there were a lot ofpupils, particularly in my form, from Tiger Bay.SF[…]
[…]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 […]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
