Betty Willingale

This recording was transcribed by funds from the AHRC-funded ‘History of Women in British Film and Television project, 1933-1989’, led by Dr Melanie Bell (Principal Investigator, University of Leeds) and Dr Vicky Ball (Co-Investigator, De Montfort University). (2015).BECTU History ProjectInterview n[…]

E M (Michael) Smedley Aston

[…] and I was suddenly given money to go to Simpsons and buy myself a uniform and although I could not claim to be a gentleman I was now an Acting Pilot Officer. So I was at home on leave and suddenly I got a postgram to report to a station in Shropshire called Turnhill. And I was supposed to be there […]

Frances Cockburn

[…]ewing Francis Cockburn I spell the name C O C K B U R N, who started life in the film industry as an editor became a producer and finally information officer interviewer is Margaret Thompson the date is the 16th of March 1990 side one.So, Frances tell us something about your background where you're […]

Robert Love

Robert Love [Start of Recording] [00:00] I: So we're interviewing Robert Love. I'm the interviewer, Tim Amyes. Robert was here from '76 to '93? R: Till 2001, I think! I: 2001! 1976 till 2001. And today is the 28th [May, 2017]. So there we go. We've identified the tape. So wh[…]

John Ammonds

[…]nbsp;And Anthony Craxton?  Tony Craxton who became a ... John P. Hamilton  14:15  Yes. Who became an establishment officer eventually. John Ammonds  14:19  But he was a director of coronations and things, not too frequent but something like[…]

Robert M (Bob) Angell

[…]ping the name going. But now the conservatives said cut it finished. What so there we were Dennis foreman, Dennis foreman was a so called controlling officer in those days at the COI. And with the structure of the ground filming it was that the COI acted as a kind of advertising agency. And our actu[…]

Edward Aneurin Williams

[…]ke that. And it was, it was a good draw, and orchestras, like doing it, and it was good for your got his concept. Got some constant giving in and the officers of course, confirmed their relationship with him in a sense, you know, and that was good. And that leads me on to say that, of course, the on[…]

Joan Kemp-Welch

[…]be, quite.Roy Fowler: OK, because we're on tape, people can't see you.Joan Kemp-Welch: No. And we were shot! The man who was taking me, the officer who was taking me said, "Shut all the windows!" And everything was shut, like that, before we went through it. And they had built castles whic[…]

Ronnie Noble

[…]t. I saw an advertisement in the paper for. An office boy or Junius junior officers system wanted for National Screen services and I saw them that obviously the[…]
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