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[…] Coventry 26:34 Yeah, I remember the coronation because, because at that time, I was in the boy scouts, and I was asked to sell programmes in London in in the mall. And so the group of us went up to the mall. It was pouring with rain, and every had been pouring all night. The M[…]
[…] I belonged - if you were a member of the repertory players, if you weren't actually in the show - they used to do these Sunday night shows, you sold programmes. And everybody selling programmes on a Sunday night show would be in full evening dress, you know, just like that. Because people dressed, […]
[…] there was always some shorts mixed in with the main programme, they'd go on about five minutes or so and […]
[…]d work for us!" And so, eventually what happened is I went to work in a freelance capacity with BBC Radio Scotland, working on the Corridors of Power programme, which was the political programme which went out at noon on a Friday. It was presented by the late Jack Regan who, at that point, was Head […]
[…]But the thing was, the crudity of it. I thought to myself, "Talkies will never catch on!" I mean, there was always some shorts mixed in with the main programme, they'd go on about five minutes or so and there'd be a sign saying, 'The next picture's a Talkie'. And it would be a Musical Hall artist do[…]
[…]great aura of wisdom and experience surrounding you. ButPaul also had this in as much as he had been there a year. And he had just produced the first programme of an archaeological quiz called Animal, Vegetable, Mineral. And his assistant who was a very nice, probably a society, girl but none the le[…]
[…] to be truthful, I saw myself as a director, a programme director, and I thought in the arrogance of whatever it […]
[…] because I wasn't up to scratch and not with my because I hadn't ever intended to do that. And from the first I said, I would like to do research for programmes and of course, that sort of job didn't exist. And this is where David Attenborough in my leaving party said that I was probably the person […]
[…] it is to be a Jew. This was an NBC programme, I mean, and, and the show called for locations […]
