[…]d and I was lucky enough to get selected on their marketing graduate course so although I was a physicist and scientist, I really didn’t want to be a researcher so I also wanted to do something that had a public facing front. So, I joined the marketing graduate scheme, and…SS: Was this in London?PC:[…]
[…]wn, I thought, I don't want to film in a school. I don't want to do this. And I was under contract. Anyway, eventually, actually, with the help of my researcher at the time, Nick White, he pointed out in some big meeting that this whole season you know the BBC used to do, these seasons of Shakespear[…]
[…]nge I suppose for a couple of years. Then obviously I got to know the people who used film in the programmes and they asked me to become a film researcher. [TIME 15:10] So, then I started doing film research for Associated-Rediffusion’s documentaries and This Week, their current a[…]
INTERVIEW WITH VIRGINIA McKENNA (ACTRESS)The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU History Project.Interviewer: Joyce RobinsonRecorded on the 9th January 2002. TAPE ONE SIDE ONEJR: Virginia McKenna, when and where were you born?VM: Well, I was born in London on the 7th of June, 193[…]
BECTU History Project - Interview No. 431[Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: TBCInterview Date: 1998-03-25Interviewer: Alan LawsonInterviewee: David Robson[Tape 1, Side 1]The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU History Project. David Robson, one time cinema projectionist, television […]
SIDE 1 INTERVIEWER: The date is the 6th of July, 1993. This [is] interview number two-seven-one, with Charles Smith. Right. Okay, when—when were you born, and what sort of childhood did you have, and what your parents were. CHARLES SMITH: Well, I was born in 1920, May, in Rugby in Warwicks[…]
The copyright of this interview is vested in the BECTU History Project. LindsayAnderson, film director, theatre producer, interviewer Norman Swallow, recorded on 18 April, 1991SIDE 1Norman Swallow: First of all, when and where were you born?Lindsay Anderson: I was born on April 17th, 1923 in Bangalo[…]
