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[…]e's always this terrible story about why he was never knighted…. And it's always, the story goes that he was sitting with the then Princess Royal in the balcony while the coronation of our Queen was going on. And then the great Princess of Tonga came past, an enormous lady in an open carri[…]

[…]ill in Korea, so you were operating between those two.Freddie Francis: Yes, after Mickey, various things I did, I did the film which finished off the Royal Command Performance, we made a film called Beau Brummell. In those days it used to be the Royal Command Performance, it isn't any longer, I thin[…]

[…]d at his job, and as a freelance sound recordist, was not very popular. So he belonged to a variety of committees, which emanated through ACTT in the Royal Society of Arts and the British Standards Institution, and a Tuc committee here, and something something committee there. And there was the man […]

[…]ale colleagues doing? Oh, Joanna and Jackie, were both going on to be engineer Well, Joanna actually was going to become the first sound assistant to Television Centre. She was six foot and a half engineer bare feet blonde bombshell. Sadly, I discover she only lasted about two years, I think she cou[…]

[…]nt process in those days. I had already at this stage, I then went to, to live with my parents in Salsbury. And I had wanted to go to try to get into Royal Academy of Dramatic Art to do the stage management course. But my parents, you know, they just couldn't conceive of me doing anything like that.[…]