[…]been working for an independent chain in Bellshill at the time. Jimmy hit a bit of flack from other Odeon Chiefs in other units for not only being an outsider but, in their view, having been given a nepotistic leg-up into the Circuit by his brother Hugh who, at that time was the Regional Technical O[…]
[…]bsp; …as only Brian…in the Dubbing Theatre…as only Brian could be. So sport was coming along slowly. One mustn’t forget though that outside broadcasts, I mean, Dimmock and Lobby and Alan Chivers were doing a great deal of live sport work but, of course, there were no recordings wer[…]
[…] Donnellan: Yes. My father was a head teacher, he got a head teachership in a little village school at a village, at a place called Merrow just outside Guildford where we lived from 1929 to 1932. And because I had a very bad squint early on in life I had an operation and I could, no I didn't h[…]
[…]ful time, we were treated and spoilt, you know, we used to carry our little chairs out – ‘It’s a nice day, we’ll take the chairs out and go outside’ – and we used to carry our little chairs out, sit in the garden and have a little lesson. And, ‘It’s time to go back, you’ve all got to […]
[…]eed when I became a senior variety producer there were quite a lot of people who quite wished they'd been slightly nicer to me, when I'd been queuing outside their dressing room trying to get them to listen to my song. But that is what you did. If you've got a song up13of course it was, there was a […]
[…] I saw a booth where there was a man standing outside, a barker. And he was saying, "Come in and […]
[…]t in the next road to us, we had the station in the middle. And while they were looking round the stands I saw a booth where there was a man standing outside, a barker. And he was saying, "Come in and be televised." So I thought, "Sounds interesting - television." So I said to my pop, "Can I go?" An[…]
[…]e of holes cut in it. And they would fix the screen at the other end of the heart. And then they would beam the film for the week, with the projector outside on the back of this truck. And that truck used to go to to other places as well, it didn't just come to our logging campRoy Fowler 21:41[…]
[…]here down Croydon way and was coming up to a script meeting with Hitch who lived in Brompton Rd, and Hitch said to him “it's easy to get to me, right outside Croydon Airport there's a bus stop there, you get a bus there and whatever it is, no 14, it brings you right to my door”. Had you heard this?R[…]
[…]land. I know you were born and educated in Ireland. GM: 0:53 Yeah, I was born in Tipperary town, brought up in a little village outside Tipperary town called Galbally, G-A-L- B- A- double L-Y. My dad was a trade unionist, and not a trade union official, but he worked in Creamer[…]
