Brian Shemmings

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Sidney Gilliat

[…]d but not new.And they had one overall writer called Eliot Stannard who used to complain, "I'm the only, I have to rewrite everybody else's scripts, I'm the only really completely professional writer in the building apart from fly by nights and I've got a floating liver." And when you[…]

Leslie Norman

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Bessie Bond (née Span)

[…]his job, and this job, or there’s a COI job.......’ If everything else fails.....A That was the last resort. .....some of the BBC was people that did scripts and that sort of thing, the long time they took to pay you, and they paid very poorly for scripts and that sort of thing, for people who did o[…]

Charles Picken

[…]ned to skewer him if the missing item was not found. Curious as always, I asked what the item was and both of us fell about uncontrollably over her description of a Marks and Spencer’s bag containing the outsize panty girdle without which she would be unable to fly to America! Thankfully we were abl[…]
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