Joan Jenkins

…d, Mr Breeze, FFC, 35mm, Don Banks, 50s distribution, USA, 1961, The Grey Seal, Royal Performance, BBC, Filmstrips, press officer, Girl Guides film, Women’s Institutes, African Services BBC, Public Re…

Paul Watson

Childhood; the Blitz, Manchester Grammar School. Studies art at Royal College of Art, changes speciality to film making. Encounters difficulties with tutor, Iris Murdoch.Enters BBC via Richard Cauwsto…

Philip Jones

…Grammar School educated, where father was a language teacher. National Service, Royal Air Force 1946-1948. Met Frank Lee, Radio Luxembourg, joined as programme assistant at £4-15 shillings [£4.75p].

John Turner

…ia with Mountbatten around period of independence and Punjab riots.1950s - 1951 Royal Tour of Canada. Royal rota cameraman, filming the Royal Family, and the Coronation.1960s - Production manager â€¦

Anthony Simmons

…cumentaries and shorts, then feature films and, later, as a jobbing director on television dramas. the Venice film festival grand prix for his documentary Sunday By the Sea (1953), which captured…

Sheila Hancock

…y child with John, Joanna Suzy Thaw. In the 1980s Sheila toured the UK with the Royal Shakespeare Company and later with the National Theatre. In 1988 she was told she had breast cancer, but she fough…

Bill Ward

…gers to have a go at producing short items. He talks about his war years in the Royal Artillery (RA) and then in REME (Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers). Goes back to Alexandra Palace as FM, …

Steve Minchin

…ish You Were Here"- Peter Hughes- Judith Chalmers- Film Industry relationships- Royal Film Performances-50th Anniversary Pinewood cancelled- turned into tribute.-BAFTA Lifetime AchievementDirk Bogard …

Malcolm Brown

…d got a first. Was cox of St John’s rowing eight; whilst there joined the RNVR [Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve] also took Russian language course, trained at Portsmouth; then sent to Coulsden Camp for i…

Bernard Gribble

…ibble was nominated for ACE Eddie Awards for the editing of two episodes of the television miniseries Ellis Island (1984), and he had been nominated for an Emmy for the television miniseries The Winds…