Search Results for: Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to drama (1974)

[…]iewer Alan Lawson, 23 October 1987.ALAN LAWSON: Harry where and when where you born?HARRY MILLER: 1904, November the 25th 1904.ALAN LAWSON: What kind of schooling did you receive?HARRY MILLER: I was born in London, by the way.  My schooling was a Catholic Church school, we were Catholics our fa[…]

[…] simply to clear the air and set the record straight. And we talked to Murray Sanders whom I liked enormously and he agreed that he had been the officer who acted on behalf of General Macarthur who was C in C in Japan – God, in occupied Japan! Sanders had been a Colonel, sorry, a Major at […]

Interviewer  0:00  This is an interview with Mike Aldridge and is the property of the History Project for BECTU.  The date today is the 15th of September 1997. And, Mike,can I ask you where and when you were born?Michael Aldridge  0:20  I was born in 1941 in East London and […]

[…]I could direct the crew , but obviously for international reasons. They wanted it in English. It was end of the era when I think you know, the German officer on the bridge was able to scream Achtung fires acht grun You know, now they, the the French officers say I attention le droit they actually sp[…]

[…]was there for some months. And almost as soon as I went back into training I broke an ankle on an obstacle course so I was clearly not very good officer material. And in fact failed miserably and became, I remember a great argument with, I don't like explosions much and someone threw a thunderf[…]

[…]So I was sent to a training camp at Watchet in Somerset and it was there that I met John Cox who was also on the same course, though he was a Warrant officer [24.11] and I was just an ordinary Private, a Gunner. I went through the course there and just before Christmas in 1939 we were sent to Woolwi[…]

[…] landmark documentary, The Way We Live (1946) about the rebuilding of Plymouth, Jill Craigie was a committed documentary film-maker and […]