Search Results for: OBE (1995)

[…]ong time.VM: Which was, for a straight play, you know, quite serious.JR: And you did matinees, did you, as well?VM: Oh, yes, of course. [Pause.] Oh, Robert Hardy was in it too, and the last play I did in the theatre, actually, was with him, so I’ve known him for many years.[32]JR: Fine actor.VM: Won[…]

[…]s first cousins never in Mrs. Ed Wilkinson, was in her 60s when we arrived, and her husband had been dead some years, I imagined. So we arrived in October of 1940. And went to stay with them on Park Avenue, which my mother utterley loathed , because while she will always be penniless, but on the oth[…]

[…]t the occasion was but it was wonderful to be at a dinner at the Guildhall.  All sorts of things like that and culminating in this year I got an OBE for services to – I think was the terminology – which was absolutely wonderful.AL Yes, yes.GH As you can imagine it came out of the blue.  Co[…]

[…]. I've appeared was salty. I think I've achieved all my ambitions I think all the iconic showsDerek Threadgall  55:09  you were awarded the OBE for services to entertainment.Unknown Speaker  55:17  Yes, I accepted it because I found out how it works. You're recommended and lobbie[…]