[…]'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[…]
[…]ril 17th, 1923 in Bangalore, South India in the military hospital, I think. My father was in the British army in India, the Queen Victoria's Own, the Royal Engineers. My mother was half Scottish, her mother was Scottish and her father was English. She was born in South Africa and had met my father i[…]
