[…]e her first child pupil. Her name was Nellie Potts and she went on to become, probably I won’t say the most famous, but a very famous examiner of the Royal Academy of Dancing. Your sister will know of Miss Potts. NS: You were in BurnleyMD: Yes well we weren’t, the headquarters were. We were con[…]
[…];A Sense of the Past programme? I did one with him in a cinema in Leeds, but with Pebble Mill, Stephanie Silk was the presenter, I think. We did royalty, films about royalty, films about advertising, one or two other themes like that, with me on camera.34I remember Scott’s – you can edit this o[…]
[…]mething round about then. So I carried on at the Square for a long time, or it seemed to be. Stage shows, everybody used to wear tuxedos if there was royalty in the place. I didn't - only if you went to the theatre did you have to. Parnell used to come in looking like a penguin, you know. We had som[…]
[…]llet dancing, acrobatic, Greek, tap. Mainly ballet. I was quite good at ballet actually, I passed several exams. And they were considering me for the Royal Ballet School, only it was called Sadler’s Wells Ballet School then or
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[…]lists in their fields, but had certainly never done that job on a television news programme before. We also laid down some rules about the agenda. No royal stories, no sport and absolutely no wallpaper shots of limousines drawing up outside buildings to illustrate, youknow, government talks with thi[…]
[…]e got to carry on. It's your chance now you go down there and get and I finished the film. I can't remember the name of it, and me had been one of my royal films. I know the American director. His name called Pratt, I think, or something like harmony big, he looked like a big gorilla, and he has dis[…]
[…]d at 17, at 18 and a half you were called up whether you are willing not. I would have loved to have gone into aircrew because my dad had been in the Royal Flying Corps in the first war and I've been brought up on aeroplanes as a kid. But my eyesight is very bad. So that was that. You know, if you b[…]
[…]as a very useful thing because. One day would be a shooting catch with the royal family at some distance and that. That. You'd be having to meet anybody an[…]
[…]ave phoned me or I would have phoned you. (Yes) And there are still people around Alan who say and I sometimes meet them er at some I don’t know, the Royal Television Society some some (yes) senior executives says to me “I used to be a production manager with ..... “ Basic Films or World Wide or som[…]
