[…]t was finished, devoted the whole of - was it called, Tonight, the seven o'clock programme?Rodney Giesler: I saw it, yeah.John Krish: They got RoSPA [Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents] in, a man from RoSPA. They wanted me to go and defend it and I said, "I have nothing to defend. If you […]
[…]nd I found that I was an expert at this [laughs]. And I went in for competitions non-stop and won them all. Eventually there was a competition at the Royal Albert Hall, December 15th, 1926, the World Charleston Championship. I went in for it, I won it and my prize was four weeks' engagement starting[…]
[…]he same pitch. Around that time I remember seeing many good films at morning matinees including Broadway Melody of 1929 which I saw again recently on television, Sunny Side Up, Flying Down to Rio, oh and a drama about an airship rescue over 4 the North Pole called Dirigible. At the same time I […]
[…]ey Cole: Because films were much more - cinemas were bulked much more largely in the whole social situation weren't they?Jack Rockett: You hadn't got television.Sidney Cole: You hadn't got television, you hadn't got bingo.Jack Rockett: Yes bingo came after.Sidney Cole: It came after, yeah.Jack Rocke[…]
[…]they said was, what grade are you? Well, my grade was zero. SoUnknown Speaker  6:25  I ended up one radio and links. And that really wasn't television.Unknown Speaker  6:32  And I saw an advertisement for staff at a TV.Unknown Speaker  6:38  And I applied for the job wh[…]
[…] the lead and he was a Tata, and he was handsome. And it was strong. He was astounding to watch he later tend to England. And he lived he worked with Royal Ballet for many years, his but 16 hours or something.Unknown Speaker  13:00  AndUnknown Speaker  13:01  the opening was a ro[…]
[…]desk took fright, was on the day of the Dunblane tragedy. I was sent out, a keen junkie on the News Editor had sent me out to go straight to Stirling Royal Infirmary and a Reporter called Douglas McGuire, I think, who went straight to Dunblane and it was, sort of, well mobile phones were a very larg[…]
