[…]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[…]
[…];A Sense of the Past programme? I did one with him in a cinema in Leeds, but with Pebble Mill, Stephanie Silk was the presenter, I think. We did royalty, films about royalty, films about advertising, one or two other themes like that, with me on camera.34I remember Scott’s – you can edit this o[…]
[…]a theatre or...DS: No, the extraordinary thing is, isn’t it, when you’re very young, you just take things for granted. That’s one thing how royalty carry on, they take it for granted that people look at them.They’ve known no other.DS: They’ve known no other, no. I think we just took i[…]
[…] from the college of art somewhere. MW : :e was. Royal College of Art. CJ: :e was lovely. Terrible painter, […]
[…] in the ACTT History Project. Sydney Newman, Fellow of the Royal Television Society, Executive Producer, Head of Drama Departments of […]
[…] of what was about to happen. We were doing a Royal Command Performance thing and always at the end of […]
[…]mething round about then. So I carried on at the Square for a long time, or it seemed to be. Stage shows, everybody used to wear tuxedos if there was royalty in the place. I didn't - only if you went to the theatre did you have to. Parnell used to come in looking like a penguin, you know. We had som[…]
[…] back in, as a child there was an uncle who as it were conditioned my very, very early childish interest in the cinema. He used to take me to the old Royalty Cinema in Kensington High Street, which was the first cinema ever in the Royal Borough, and in fact the only cinema for years in Kensington.&n[…]
