[…]ld something wrong. And, she just said, ‘There’s not enough blue on screen.’ And we went, ‘What does that mean?’ She wanted more of the senior police officers, senior police officers we had interviewed about Orgreave in retrospect, wanted more of it in. We had a blazing row. Liz Forgan, if you are w[…]
Alan Lawson  0:05  The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU history project. Michael Colomb, BBC TV sound engineer, dubbing mixer and director of better sound of Endell Street interview. Alan Lawson, recorded on the 12th of June 1995. side one you know, first and foremost, wh[…]
David Watkin (DW)Director of PhotographyBECTU No. 320Interviewer: Alan Lawson (AL) and John Legard (JL)Date 03/03/19943 Tapes Side 100:00:00 – 00:12:00 Introductions; born in Margate, 1925; father was a solicitor for Southern Rail; lived in Margate until the war; as a child DW would got to the […]
[…]ar service and that counted towards your degree. I went in the Irish guards, in the war in a tank from Normandy to the Baltic, where I was the signal officer. I had 80 stations tuned into me and each station was a tank or ambulance or medical vehicle or escort car or reconnaissance vehicle. And I ha[…]
[…]t he said. So we fly over to Caens where they were held up.And we got off and I was met by if you'll pardon the expression, some prat of an artillery officer. Now this was the guy if they were ever making a film in Hollywood and they wanted an English Artillery officer, he was the guy. So I said wha[…]
