[…]in the very early…still only one transmitter, still only Crystal Palace, ‘cause I remember writing the newsreel when the Sutton Coldfield transmitter opened and we did a special film arranged for the Midlands, to greet the Midlands as Sutton Coldfield opened. Now this was a small world, the ne[…]
[…]g in, not my sister and I, when I was married and living in London for a couple of years and one night there was a knock on the front door and when I opened the door there was an oldish man there who turned out to be an uncle from Vancouver and he had tracked us down to this house in London. We cour[…]
[…]called Large as life. It's a review. And Harry Secombe's in it Eric Sykes I think Hattie Jakes nutty Harry. Harry's Worth isn't there and singing the opening by the way was Val's wife who became his wife Annette Ray and Annette Ray. Yeah singing in it and taking part in the odd sketch. I said well t[…]
[…]uys who hadn’t come back, that was about 1945.DS: And they wanted the theatre back, of course, they wanted everybody out and clean up the theatre and open it up again. So my sister Sheila – Joan was still on tour – sister Sheila was working in the BBC, secretarial side, and she w[…]
[…]oney and said I don't know how much work you want me to do but that's now much money I want per year for 3 years. And he said if I was you I wouldn't open it until you've had your lunch because it will spoil your appetite. And Ronnie opened it and said you have a deal.Now recently at an RTS lecture […]
[…]never done before. And the dress rehearsal was a total shambles and there was a terrific amount of tearing up and one thing and the other. But on the opening night it was the biggest success they'd ever had. They just bought the place down and it ran until April and made the company an awful lot of […]
[…]ieve if you go out into steamy conditions – I don’t have to wear these outdoors but I believe they steam up.VM: Everything steams up, doesn’t it? You open up the oven and it all steams up!JR: Whereas the contact lenses—VM: So yes, it was brilliant.JR: That was a great success, that. I’d forgotten it[…]
[…]Rogers. And it was enormous fun. I: In 1946, am I right? P: In 1946, the end of 1946, before the television reopened. When did the television service reopen? I: Yeah, mid-46 I think it was the summer – spring June/July? P: &nbs[…]
[…]e there was so much nitrate film and it decayed at a rate faster than one could keep up with the copying, and that was exacerbated because you had to open the cans to find out if nitrate was decaying, and you didn’t know until it was decaying; and he created this test with the help of chemistry tech[…]
[…] we always did shows for special occasions and we used to have a thing about The Bastille Day in those days. And I can remember Michael’s door flying open and John Glyn-Jones, that incredible face of his and that grin saying ‘What a Bastille’, and went out again. That meaning that was his reaction t[…]
