Moira Armstrong

[…] used a lot of Irish actors.Yes, yes. And I, and I cast it. I went to Belfast and, and interviewed quite a lot of, of actors who in fact are based in Northern Ireland. And, and what we did was... In fact the house that we lived in was in Kensal Road but the local council, which is Westminster, and a[…]

E M (Michael) Smedley Aston

[…]s Guild Hollywood Assistant Directors Award for it. And he was a great guy and he was very showbusiness because his father gad been a comedian on the northern circuit. In those days everything was very much sort of thing and Peter's father was quite a well-known...Reg Bolton was quite well known. He[…]

Peggy Gick

[…]nd we used to do design work apart from films. And then as soon as the war came, the first thing that happened was that I got inveigled into going to Northern Ireland to [Woolfe and Holder?] to do designs for anti-submarine netting for ships. [Chuckles.] It never came to anything! And so after that.[…]

Francis Gysin

[…]tuff that is up in Newcastle Gateshead rather because we were approached by the Northern film and television Archive which is affiliated to the British Film Institute&nbs[…]

Ted Hallows

[…]bomb aiming and all that sort of thing. I did all that.Unknown Speaker  20:09  Then I went over to then they called for volunteers to go to Northern Ireland to convert the lengths and that for parachute drop. That's for the drop in Ireland.Unknown Speaker  20:22  I came back from[…]

Val Guest

[…] of bank notes, it was pitch dark. And we all went back stuffed with bank notes after we put that thing out. We got back and discovered they were the Northern Bank of China. So then the thing was to find out, we put this under our mattresses, we were all sleeping, in St Pauls school, we used to slee[…]

Roger Davis

[…]kground. Yeah. Excellent training of course.Unknown Speaker  21:54  Is this the bit that's now hotel sudden pop sorry, is this part of what northern that's now a hotel?Speaker 1  22:03  Yes, it's no the the BBC sold this the main has here and it's now a very, very luxurious hotel[…]

Diane Tammes

[…]n we’ve been in, and we’ve been in a fewhairy situations I suppose over the years.[0:15:44]The most terrifying place I went to I suppose was, one was Northern Ireland, which was very frightening, and the other was Bosnia, two places that I would happily not go back to, they were just so frightening.[…]
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