[…]e BBC as an announcer because I had an impeccable standard southern English accent and that was the accent I remember in my father who by becoming an officer in the First World War had adopted the conventional Officer's Mess accent. Now if I look back on it and think how that it would have been advi[…]
[…]ad they were top dogs of Germany, and they always looked down to the babarians of being little more simple people easygoing, and Pasha always had the officer class were trained. And what made Germany always powerful as a country was the educated officer class. The other ones were the leaders, you se[…]
[…]ss, it enabled us when you see the various characters for example, it was Johnny Mills, who played an A B, there was Bernard miles who played a petty officer. I think there was Michael wilding, who played one of the officers were a whole bunch of them, I can't remember them all now. And we were able[…]
[…]laints and queries.[0:40:16]People did telephone in in those days did they?DS: Yes, yes. And if something had happened, I remember one night the Duty Officer went for his supper and I was on my own, and the phones were jammed, something had happened, there had been a wrong programme or somebody had […]
[…]nised at headquarters at Fighter Command. The Flight Lieutenant was demobbed, the Flight Sergeant was demobbed, I suddenly became (laughs) the senior officer. I was an acting sergeant, suddenly I running the educational unit at headquarters at Fighter Command.Nothing to do with actual Fighter Comman[…]
[…]rong with that, for Christ's sake. Anyway, that was that and then, war on, and in 1940 there’s this dreadful disaster. The Dutch, Belgians and French officers more or less laid down their arms, stories of Belgian officers had their private cars parked just behind the front lines so they could nip ho[…]
[…]ilm Festival that Graham and I became enmeshed with these organisations on a more than casual basis. I successfully applied for the position of Films Officer for that year’s Film Festival which involved me having to collect and catalogue all the films submitted that year‘s event, organise selection […]
[…] by Leo Marks. It was originally composed in 1943 in memory of Marks’ girlfriend, who had died in a plane crash, but in 1944 Marks, who was the codes officer of the Special Operations Executive in London at the time, issued the poem to Violette Szabo as a poem code. It was made famous by its inclusi[…]
[…]one. This cause a lot of trouble, so Tony produced this letter from Churchill, (they sensibly got it all in writing), so that whatever happened, this officer was to have all facilities and they were to do exactly what he said, whatever it was.Alan Lawson: [Laughs].David Prosser: And so Tony got the […]
[…]g friends, David Newman, was at all the shots at the time. He was a major and they knew him And also for some reason Olivier was older he was a naval officer, I think was Pepsi adforum hadn't turned up at this point he was in the district. And they all used to go off and get him to travel to meeting[…]
