[…]ce, but he was a reassuring voice, a comfortable voice, and he was an excellent reader, of course. He was a portrait painter, Ted, close to the Royal Family, very close to the Queen, I mean, all the jokes we made about Ted, if you mentioned the Queen he would stand up and always mention Her Ma[…]
[…]called Officers Training Corps but it certainly was called the Corps, and they all therefore enlisted in the in B Company of the 8th Battalion of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. And when I remember one of the few things that my father ever told me about that period, apart from his devotion to Saltl[…]
[…]t he was a director of coronations and things, not too frequent but something like that. John P. Hamilton  14:24  Oh indeed, royal events.  John Ammonds  15:25  Royal events, but he was we were called junior programme, well, he, we were still ef[…]
[…]ery few who don’t. But it’s wonderful to work with a generous actor or actress. It makes the whole thing worthwhile, really. So then, in 1961, at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, which in those days had a company at the Aldwych in London,[71] Dorothy Tutin was in The Devils,[72] which was the second J[…]
[…]hat age it was an endless bus journey. And I went to May Hatton’s Academy in Hereford, and I took my dancing lessons there, and I did my exams at The Royal Academy, I went, soldiered through them. I think I must have started some dancing in King’s Lynn because my cousin has reminded me of something […]
[…]s must have been quite something in those days.Jimmy Gilbert: Well it was the Howard and Wyndham Circuit. They had the Kings, the Lyceum, the Theatre Royal in Glasgow, the Alhambra, the Queen's, the Pavilion, what is the Citizens' Theatre which was the old Princess Theatre and then there was Her Maj[…]
[…] I think is that my father only ever earned what he earned, he earned straight forwardly off the stage, he had no investments and he virtually had no royalties. But when the war broke out he'd got 3 houses, he had 2 boys at boarding school, he had a racing car, a grand prix racing car, plus a sports[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]e her first child pupil. Her name was Nellie Potts and she went on to become, probably I won’t say the most famous, but a very famous examiner of the Royal Academy of Dancing. Your sister will know of Miss Potts. NS: You were in BurnleyMD: Yes well we weren’t, the headquarters were. We were con[…]
[…]gain we’re talking about a very small television audience, because television didn’t really take off until 53. We did it a lot at first, we did Royal Ascot that had never been televised before, we did the State Opening of Parliament, you’ve got to remember the Order he came later. The re[…]
