[…]he Berlin airlift, for instance.Α Yes, indeed, I covered the Berlin airlift. I did the weddings..... In fact, when I was atGaumont British, I was the royal rota camera man doing all the royal coverage and I did theChristening of Prince Charles, for instance. And I can tell you an amusing incident ab[…]
[…]'s interested in me doing as an esoteric, difficult work. As young men 22. No, it was the end of the book by Nigel Dennis. And he was on I was on the Royal Court and I wanted it, it seemed as simple anyway, the long story is that I was with the great Lindsey Graham's my agent who was also the agent […]
[…]a conventional syllabus for, as it then was, School Certificate and Higher School Certificate. It was mainly a Merchant Navy College, but there was a Royal Navy stream and one took a special naval entrance exam. But at about the age of 16 as a precaution, they gave us all a medical and an eye test, […]
[…]gramme never came back because we really did do it live on a boat on a Saturday morning. We rehearsed on a Thursday/Friday and the boat set sail, the Royal Iris, on a Saturday morning and it was reading technology, which apparently had been developed to try and cover Francis Chichester going round t[…]
[…]Indonesia and Burma, Thailand. So that was first time I saw something of the East.Speaker 1 33:39 Were these films primarily for American television. They were Yes, were they shown here also,Speaker 2 33:48 yes, I believe they were on Simon India. We had the former ambassador[…]
[…]ll coming out of the services, you don’t go straight back in, you have to work your way so it was very helpful.McG: We’ve got to talk about your RAF [Royal Air Force] career, but what came first, because you did work with George Formby in Bell Bottom George. Was that before you were called up?HF: Oh[…]
[…]id attention to them it would be better now wouldn't it.One bloke attacking the royal family, I don't know if we've got agood family or set of neuters. It was dodgy.[…]
[…]ained a number of these unedited and coxhealth hours, along with some really rare early material. programmes like calling all forces and star bill, a Royal Variety Performance. And then in addition to that, there were documentaries and interviews with Tony. And then in the last few months, we've bee[…]
[…] at the beginning of the war I joined the Army, I volunteered actually, into the Army with a friend of mine, Tommy Linden-Haynes[?] and we joined the Royal Fusiliers together. Unfortunately we couldn't stay together because Tommy had an accident, the effects of which were with him for the rest of hi[…]
