The copyright of this recording and transcript is vested in the BECTU History Project. Doris Martin was interviewed by Sid Cole on 16 August 1988.1. Getting started in filmSC: Your parents didn't have any connection or did they with the film business?DM: No connection at all. My father had a small p[…]
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