[…]bout when you were born and about your family background?A Yes, certainly, I was born in Blackheath near London on 22 September 1918 and myfather was - he had retired from the RAF in 1924, which was quite early - and he joinedCookwit(?) Budget as a camera man which was one of the original, very orig[…]
[…]l the details. Barry Houlding....Oh yes.Very nice chap, was our production manager. And we had a rather eccentric Norwegian called Rolf Popp, that's P-O-P-P, who was the first, no second, sorry second assistant, Michael Johnson, whom everybody remembers, was the first assistant, Rolf Popp was the se[…]
[…]e most exciting - as I say HTV was the nightmare but because I was not under pressure I could fulfil all my engagements. You know I went twice to the Oscars as a guest of the American Academy and was treated with great respect. I had dinner parties to which I invited the Commissioner of the Police, […]
[…]lots of the satirists are Irish. The English satirists are Irish because they come from an alien society, and they bring their Gallic wit to England, Oscar Wilde Bernard Shaw, who wrote Gulliver's Travels, all Irish men of great intellect and perception, yeah. Trinity, college, Governor, I think he […]
BECTU History Project - Interview No. 363 [Copyright BECTU]  Transcription Date: 1998-12Interview Date: First 3 sides recorded in 1993 by Toby Haggith from the Imperial War Museum. Side 4 was recorded on the 27 th July 1995 by Rodney Geisler from the BECTU History Project  &[…]
