[…]t song also appeared to bring contented smiles to their faces! At one stage in the afternoon of the day of the Premiere we had a foyer full of press, radio, a replica plane and TV cameras recording interviews when in walked Ted’s Regional Manager David Williams. He cornered me and asked what was goi[…]
[…] I was interested in sound and I built a shortwave radio, the usual things a boy does, and so my […]
[…]a sort of hazy and romantic notion of soldiering which stayed with me for a very long time and certainly survived the Second World War. Since I wrote radio programs and eventually made films about soldiers and war and so on. But the education thing came from my parents aspirations for us, he o[…]
[…] at all really. Oh, well, actually, Michael Powell had his feelings terribly, because he always built some lovely sets. And he was interviewed on the radio about the sets which the interviewer saw, and he thought, he said, Mr. Youngest has the terrific and Michael Powell, I think it stinks, just lik[…]
[…]o everybody as Pussy.
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Anne V Coates Roy Fowler
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There was a radio programme not so long ago with, in which your cousin would have – one of J Arthur’s daughters spoke about...
Oh. Oh Shelah, Shelagh wasn’t it[…]
[…]ncensored, and it was on the screens at length. Ronnie then had the great nous to link up with Rene Cutforth. Rene was there as the BBC’s radio reporter and they were briefed to get together. Now here were two massive personalities, Ronnie Noble and Rene Cutforth, and of course at […]
[…]ir heart.VG: They did indeed; Miss London Ltd was a big success. I had him singing and dancing and everything in that.RF: Bandwaggon was based on the radio show.VG: I had very little to do with that, I drafted a script and polished a final script but I was really doing my fire training then, that wa[…]
[…] shooting during the day on the mainland, and it would have to leave as the sun was setting, and then go out at night in a pitch dark sea without any radio or anything like that, and try and find a ship, actually, which you couldn't see because the waves were so high, you couldn't see the horizon, o[…]
[…]5 my mother was an actress and I think we joined her in front of our microphone at the age of 10. And the children's our broadcast, television, radio. My mother acted with the W Gate Theatre. She had acted with William poor who was either a pioneer in Shakespeare production in EnglandJohn Tayl[…]
[…] presumably the news as well.SPEAKER: M5No we never had the news we weren't allowed to read a newspaper. We weren't allowed. No. In no way. We had no radios in no way where we allowed to know what was happening in the world.SPEAKER: M1So you didn't see any of the traditional newsreels.SPEAKER: M11No[…]
