Kent Houston

Kent Houston Side 1 Kent Houston  0:00  All right, here we go. Tim, okay, thank you.  I'm Kent Houston. I was born in Wellington, New Zealand in September 1951 I'm a visual effects technician, Darrol Blake  0:16  great. Okay, tell us a bit […]

Betty Willingale

[…]e did a programme called ‘Bookstand’ which didn’t Harrisons [ph A 23:48] produce?Oh yes, I remember, yes.A young man called Dennis Potter.Yes.Was the presenter.Yes.With a man called Dick Taverne, who went on to be…Oh, an MP, yes, yes.And there were sort of guest young men, directors, from Drama Depa[…]

Derek Williams

Derek Williams  Side 1 Glyn Jones  0:00The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU History Project. The name of the interviewee is Derek Williams, Writer Director. The interviewer is Glyn Jones. The date is the first of May 2002. And this is side one. Have you had an e[…]

Esther Rantzen

Interview with Esther Rantzen: Transcript of Sample ClipEsther Rantzen: When I joined Radio as a studio manager making sound effects, playing gramophone records, both for music and effects,. It was just after the great days of B.B.C. Radio, which I imagine would have been in the Fifti[…]

Jocelyn Rickards

Jocelyn Rickards (JR)Costume DesignerBECTU No.493Interviewer: Roy Fowler (RF)Date 7-8/3/2001 & 5/4/20017 Tapes 7-8/3/2001Side 100:00:00 – 00:17:35 Born 1924, in Melbourne; when she was 11 her family moved to Sydney; at 14 she went to art school where she studied for 6 years; she came from a[…]

Ernest Maxin

 Ernest Maxin Side 143:17 SPEAKERSErnest Maxin, Linda Wood, Manny Yospa Manny Yospa  0:00  This is a BECTU History Project. The date is 17 November 2000 Manny Yospa  0:07  The Interviewee  is Ernest Maxin . The file number is […]

Julie Harris

INTERVIEW WITH JULIE HARRIS (COSTUME DESIGNER) The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU History Project.Interviewer: Roy LansfordRecorded on the 31st August 2000. RL: Right then Julie, if we could start from the very beginning, from when you were born.JH: I was born in 1921, which[…]

John Box

NB This is a resume only.John Box (JB)Production DesignerBECTU No.463Interviewer: Rodney Gielsler (RG)Date 09/12/19993 Tapes Side 100:00:00 – 00:09:30 Introductions; born 1920 in England but moved to Ceylon; father couldn’t get a decent job after WWI so he worked in a number of remote areas of […]
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