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[…] behind the throne was Lew Grade who I always found an agreeable person. Among other things he had this habit of summoning you to conferences at the ATV building at Marble Arch at 7.30 in the morning where he would be already smoking one of those enormous Havana cigars he was famous for. He didn't o[…]
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[…]nk Philip, as I understand it, thought that the Royal Family should be seen more as individuals rather than ‘the Monarchy’. So, a consortium of ITV and BBC got together, so the idea of making the film was born and Dick Cawston was approached to be the director. And so we spent a year following […]
[…] But I saw it. I look at a programme and they taken about a couple of minutes of it with all the things sequence out of it, you know, and shown it on TV. I don't know how they got it. I don't know where it is, you know, where would they get it? I don't know.Glyn Jones 41:47 I don't know.[…]
Interviewer 0:00 This is an interview with Mike Aldridge and is the property of the History Project for BECTU. The date today is the 15th of September 1997. And, Mike,can I ask you where and when you were born?Michael Aldridge 0:20 I was born in 1941 in East London and […]
