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[…]he whole house and Fiona had gone up to the farm to whole up for the summer and save rent. And with this prospect of this show going on. Then the bad news, the phone call came from John Counsel when, they said sorry it's not on they've changed their minds. I immediately came back down again and I ha[…]

[…]nbsp;that was 1928 when talkies started and uh he he wanted to go into the newsreel business which was just being formed and uh I think British movie tone […]

[…] girl I knew who knew the editor of the I.T.N. news. And she said to him ‘Well I think this […]

[…] When Shepherds Bush closed down Birch moved to Gaumont British News as a dubbing mixer. He served in the RNVR […]

[…]so old that I remember the Second World War; I was, I think aged 7 when it broke out. My father at that time was working in South Wales, and he was a newspaper editor, well he wasn’t at that time but he was working in newspapers. And we were bombed – not our house, but we were blitzed in Cardiff, an[…]

[…]t up in Devon mainly with parents who hadn'tbeen to university. So I think Oxford did it and there was a girl I knew who knew the editorof the I.T.N. news. And she said to him ‘Well I think this Jenny Izard would be to be OK as awoman reporter’. And so he said ‘well what's she like then? ‘Well she w[…]

[…]And Peter Ling, who wrote the scripts and of course, Humphrey,Lestocq was the funny man. Richard Baker, who that time was an actor before he became a newsreader that was and an actor called Phillip Dale, who also played quite an important part in my life later on. That because I was working in drama[…]