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[…]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[…]

[…]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[…]

[…]r! I: I've just, I've put this on the record on my own piece - I actually was the first that was dispatched from Cowcaddens and sent to Stirling Royal and even by six o' clock I was doing phone reports. It was that much of a technical disaster. R: I also remember being up there in the morn[…]

[…]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[…]

[…] in Taranto and then desperately tried tofind the Argyll Regiment I was aiming for, the Eighth Argylls but alas was posted as Second inCommand to the Royal West Kent Regiment which was next door to them because they had got noMajors and the Argylls had too many Majors.Taylor/Peet: What rank were you[…]

[…]nk Hitch liked his dry humour.RF: Was Dolphin Square terribly smart in the ‘30s?VG: Yes, it was. It was one of the new blocks. In the beginning Mount Royal was a very smart place, as rooms, more people lived there. A lot of people lived there, Will Hay lived there for a long time, I lived there. The[…]

[…] but alas was posted as Second in Command to the Royal West Kent Regiment which was next door to them […]

[…]; Starting off at the Bombay High School, where I think I was probably the only European which was kind of interesting because it was the time of the Royal Indian Navy mutiny and the time of all the riots before partition and it was quite dangerous, we were in buses which were turned over and burnt […]