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[…]silly, unsubstantial thing about nothing very much, except it was supposed to be about spies in France just before the war. But it was really a jokey script. And er, above us – real history was being made, with these fighter pilots who were defending Britain, and in fact succeeded in beating the Luf[…]
[…] stage. Roy Fowler 23:17 No. Jonathan Balcon 23:17 I mean latterly he used to chuck scripts at me like "The Cruel Sea", he chucked "Kind Hearts" at me and I thought it was marvellous. "The Cruel Sea" I thought was fantastic[…]
BECTU History Project - Interview No. 363 [Copyright BECTU] Transcription Date: 1998-12Interview Date: First 3 sides recorded in 1993 by Toby Haggith from the Imperial War Museum. Side 4 was recorded on the 27 th July 1995 by Rodney Geisler from the BECTU History Project &[…]
[…]aham Greene. SC: That’s right, yes. DM: And we never read it. We never read the story at all, ever. So when I arrived there was a kind of a script, which I think Angus and John Dighton had done, hadn’t they? SC: Yes I think he had. DM: And it was pretty dire, quite honestly. Beca[…]
[…]ver I think in my career had so much freedom. I mean the programmes I wanted to make, it seemed I could make them, and I often wrote, usually, my own scripts and many, looking back, I know were controversial, some were, caused discussion and debate and all this. But I never seemed to have any interf[…]
BEHP transcript DisclaimerThis transcript has been produced automatically using Speechmatics.It provides a basic, but unverified or proofread transcript of the interview. Therefore, the British Entertainment History Project (BEHP) accepts no liability for any misinterpretation of the content of this[…]
[…] on pony and foot. We worked all over India. It took two weeks to get there. That was the crew. Boothby had an audience with the Viceroy who read the script and then gave his blessing to the whole idea. Then we automatically got cooperation from the Indian army. Then Geoff Boothby got about half a d[…]
Roy Parkinson: BECTU Interview Part 1The copyright of this recording and transcript is vested in the BECTU History Project. Roy Parkinson was interviewed by Sid Cole in 1987.1. On his father H.B. ParkinsonRP: I was born in Surbiton, 22nd January 1916, and my father at that time was a cinema manager.[…]
