Betty Willingale

[…], what I hated was what I called piebald productions.Oh.Which was where you had…Yes.Video tape interiors.Yes, indeed.And 16mm exteriors.That’s awful, royal telly silly. [Laughter]Yes. And I, for about ten years I managed to persuade my employers, whichever producer it was...Oh yes.The BBC or Thames […]

Johnny (Johnny) Goodman

        EXTRACT: On losing the job of a lifetime:- "I said a permanent job in films or television would be like winning the pools - any kind of a job, I’d be grateful. I suddenly got a phone call one day to see this guy called Ward Thomas, so I go traipsing […]

Len Runkel

[…]n Speaker  6:32  been in the army from when he was a child, really, until until the end of the 18 war, he became a musketry sergeant in the Royal FusiliersUnknown Speaker  6:44  and and he went back to his job, which was a wholesale news agents, which was Howard Marshalls,Unknown[…]

Philip Leacock

[…]: I wasn't to start with, I was in the RAOC for a while.Stephen Peet: Were you? Oh I see and then you went from the RAMC...Philip Leacock: RAOC - the Royal Army Ordinance Corps...Stephen Peet: I beg your pardon, RAOC.Philip Leacock: And I was there for about a year or so.Stephen Peet: So you actuall[…]

Sidney Cole

[…] who later on married Mary Pickford.I went on cutting pictures there for some time and Worked on quite a few films in a short time. I also worked on 'Royal Cavalcade'. It was designed to celebrate 25 years of George V as reigning monarch. Everybody in the studio worked on that – all the editors, all[…]

Cy Young transcript

[…] you know a variety show a kind of compilation of. Royal and something don't forget used to. It's nice work […]

Pat Jackson

[…] mean, imagine at the age of eighteen, nineteen...going on the Royal Scot on the footplate and stoking it as we […]

Pat Jackson

[…] mean, imagine at the age of eighteen, nineteen...going on the Royal Scot on the footplate and stoking it as we […]
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