Joe Busuttil

[…]t vendettas was very, very serious business and he had mucked about with some other bloke’s wife and he was more or less given the thing about ‘never set foot on the island again’.  And he joined the Merchant Navy as a barber.  He was an atrocious barber actually but he was quite good at s[…]

Cyril Crowhurst

[…] want to go out and get a job, get a job, but what do you want to do?’  By this time, I had been very interested in radio, made a little crystal set and that sort of thing which one could expect in those days.  And said ‘All right, well I think I know somebody who works at Blackheath - Ber[…]

Alf Cooper

[…]tell me about great doings on nights there though?I’m not going to tell you anything about that because it’s libelous. [Laughter] It, or that might upset somebody’s marriage. [0:10:00 090]Yes. I, I believe the, the local working ladies used, used to come round at lunchtimecouldn’t they?Oh no. A thin[…]

Ken Westbury

[…] BBC threw you out at 60. So then I went on straight onto a feature film, and sort of saw life in the raw, because the hours we work should be on the set up or something for breakfast. And I usually get home to about harpaz level at night. And that went on for about six seven weeks. And that was my […]

Gordon Courcha

[…]7  He was got involved with the queen when they were doing Bohemian Rhapsody.Unknown Speaker  15:55  But there was quite a nice little setupUnknown Speaker  16:00  we used to in those days also have an epilogueUnknown Speaker  16:06  and ATV had religious advisors […]

Interview

[…]om the moment you came in to STV, but, say, ten years ago to now and it's really the kind of way it's swung? R: Yes, it's interesting. There's a set of, you can almost go through a narrative of technical benchmarks of how things have changed and I have always kind of enjoyed being part of a new[…]
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