[…]vid. To this day, he won't forgive me because he wanted to play the part of Britannus. I did cast it ultimately, with a mixture of both. And the play opened at the Cambridge Arts Theatre. And I'd applied meanwhile to the BBC, for a traineeship. Now the reason I went to do this was because I thought […]
[…]ng?Yes. Including...Do you remember any, any particular ones which, which stand out, ‘Maigret’?‘Maigret’.It certainly did. [Laughter]Yes. In fact the opening titles of the, the shadow of the branch as he strike his match against the wall was me holding a branch of leaves. [Laughter][Laughter]And I d[…]
[…]nd it didn't do any good. I wrote to Ronnie Neame. Nothing. As usual there was the periodic crisis. High unemployment and the union wasn't willing to open up anything. Anyway I was living in our house in Ashford. My father was travelling abroad a lot on business. Fortunately he gave me an allowance […]
[…] and I remember you of course, we were using the same cameras, the pre-war cameras, which had no turret lenses so on. But around that time Lime Grove opened and the that had and the first turret lenses in. And of course Mary Adams had as one of her senior producers Grace Wyndham Goldie and these two[…]
[…]rom the south end area, if we could, was that I think only one bomb fell in that area throughout the war. And that was under a pub when it was wasn't open. And we, we were right in the middle of the Blitz in Potters Bar, because it was, the loafer would come in maybe to bomb the docks. And if they m[…]
[…]emember was when we finished work, we used to go to the viewing galleries, which I think were on the fourth level, because there are only two studios open. I think it was four and five, I can't remember. And we could look in and watch said, cars and things like that being shot, you know. And we alwa[…]
[…]rom the south end area, if we could, was that I think only one bomb fell in that area throughout the war. And that was under a pub when it was wasn't open. And we, we were right in the middle of the Blitz in Potters Bar, because it was, the loafer would come in maybe to bomb the docks. And if they m[…]
[…]o, of course, beautiful playing and everything will note perfect. And he was playing sounded like Schubert something or other and the little trapdoor opened beside the organ and the manager said he had golf. What do you think you're doing is ever look and see what's going on in the screen. And he sa[…]
[…]er Mare, which doesn't didn't exist in those days. That was a Victorian invention after the railways but so if you can imagine this very much farming open farming countryside, North Somerset, say my family, the earliest we can get back to was written records and 1610. And we have a continuous record[…]
[…]has been produced many times since, and it put Lambeth Walk on the map. Lambeth Walk was a very famous- typical of London – market streets, that were open until Saturday night at midnight, when eventually butcher’s shops and fish shops auctioned off, which was when most people, which was why it was […]
