[…]red with George Gettaly, who was the leading man of Bless the Bride and he wanted English dancers with him, so I organised that.LW: Is this immediate post warWT: I don’t remember when the war finished, but this was 1948-49, yes Ballethoo was 1948. And then I went to New York for the Peter Pan and I […]
[…]nce fee. But then it stopped doing that when inflation started and things, so at least we got the whole of the licence fee minus the six per cent the Post Office took for collecting the licence.About the general atmosphere in the BBC in the days when you were with Haley, I mean I was myself a radio […]
[…]t came to the time of renewing the contract, taking up the option, and the option was supposed to be taken up by sending a registered letter to me by post to my home address within a certain period of time.The date by which the option should have been taken up [09.03] passed and I had not had the re[…]
[…] of the licence fee minus the six per cent the Post Office took for collecting the licence. About the general […]
[…]g wrong, so up he had to go and do it again. SC: Where was that, do you know? UB: No I don’t know, but I have got somewhere in the archives posters and that. SC: What name did he work under? UB: He was Henry Tinkler, he went with a man called Ferro I think it was, Ferro’s gymnast[…]
[…], ItalySC: Where about?EC: That was on the coast near Rapallo. Actually it was near a village called (sp?) Ritzoali but as they hadn't actually got a Post Office it was useless to put it as an address. We used to live next door to Max Beerbohm.SC: Oh wonderful. You met him?EC: Oh, every day, pretty […]
[…]l relief to those people who've been involved in the recent BBC strikes. Going to even such a small meeting as that, I had a clear agenda through the post well in advance, and it said the agenda to be published and confirmed by the members when they arrived at the meeting. And the officer who conduc[…]
[…]g and bringing my own, sort of, brand to the paper if you like. I: And after university how did you break into Journalism? R: Well, I had a postgraduate course lined up at City University in London and that was, well I thought that's where I'll go and I actually thought I would probably en[…]
