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[…]c. He’d make collection of musicians, ring them all up, in the early days, then the Phylamonia formed and he used to have them on block, and also the Royal Philharmonic and the London Philharmonic, we had all the big onesSC: And you had some marvellous players, I remember meeting Dennis Brain, he wa[…]

[…]rol did too, but Carol Reed was even grander than David Lean as, as a, as a person, you know, because socially he lived in, in, in the, sort of, near royalty life, you know.Well he had a curious background, did he not?Well, yes, the Baron.Did people know that at the time?But he married Pam Pempey [p[…]

[…]know the name, hmm.Fred Tomlin: Well Pip Pearson. And we carried on there for a while and then eventually they er - oh things happened. Talkies - the television, ITV was coming into it, so Southall Studio was taken over by Pearl and Dean, the - you know you used to see the adverts on. And they wante[…]

[…]nbsp; Alan Lawson  0:03  The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. Tony Bridgewater, senior BBC Television engineer, pioneer television engineer. Interviewer, Norman Swallow, and Alan Lawson recorded on the 28th of June 1990. Side one Norman[…]

[…]mselves as it is for what they've just seen. In fact, in many cases they sang it. Well, now, an extraordinary thing happened. This film was the first Royal Command Performance ever given of any film. It was put on by the Davises, who ran that huge theatre at Croydon, and built the great big Shepherd[…]

[…]was born in 1917 and say I was 18 at the time, this would be 34/35 . Nobody knew what to do with me and my piano teacher said why don't you go to the Royal College of Music. I put this forward, I'd always written music but I'd never took it very seriously, because it came naturallyJS: You'd written […]