[…]Tell me a bit about them because I, I‘m, I don’t know anything about them. Peet? Well, Stephen was, mm, responsible for some brilliant BBC television programmes, and Norman of course, was equally again involved in putting history, mm, often contemporary history but nevertheless it was his[…]
[…]ed as a potential officer and er…went to a board in Edinburgh, and got on the board, and went to Wrotham in Kent to be a…trained as an officer in the Royal Artillery. And, to cut a long story short, I met the best friend (one of the best friends I ever had) which was Peter Chudley, who was just a gr[…]
[…] authentically, but there’s always a little ghost in there that’s contemporary, I reckon.[50:22]Phyllis Dalton Page 25That’s very true of modern television productions that are set in the forties.Isn’t it just?They never get – the blokes in particular – they never get the ha[…]
[…]dian, let alone other other newspapers. And then it's very difficult for buyers to buy anything from abroad now unless they have the chance to have a television deal. And the television people don't want subtitle films anymore. So it's not a good scene at the moment. There are less foreign films tha[…]
[…]tthrough with a Number One did youMonty Berman: No, no, no, after Alamein I was sent back to Cairo and I think after that Iwas attached to a bunch of Royal Engineers who were making a journey across SaudiArabia, poisoning locusts. So that was quite an interesting trip to travel from one side of5Saud[…]
[…]rmation.Mm.Mm.29Jan Zilliacus DRAFT. Tape 1 Side BAnd she said ‘Oh would you like to come along I’ve got to give a luncheon party andit’s at the Café Royal, and would you like to come along and sort of make it up and you can talk to a couple of the journalists that I’ve got, you know, I’m giving thi[…]
[…]a little too Arty, for him the whole film, and he didn't think it would make money, really. And there was the epilogue at the end. I did tell this on television, the epilogue at the end, that Pamela Brown who plays a part of the news had been painted in gold. The whole of her body was painted in gol[…]
[…] Hmm. But it was also an extraordinary … about my luck again, I suppose, but the thing had been a very successful play and were doing it at the Royal Shakespeare Company, so they had played the thing for about two years. And we had about three weeks in which to put it on film, and we had[…]
