James (Jimmy) Gilbert

[…]Thames I found to my amazement I could buy after Henry, I thought it was just a bit a cheek and impudence buying something from BBC Radio but I found Simon Brett who had written After Henry for Radio had offered it to television and it had been turned down. They said it is much too bland an offering[…]

Daphne Shadwell

[…]dio at Lime Grove, and I shall never forget, what a suitable programme to start with, it was a puppet programme with voiceover and it was called Simon the Simple Sardine, and with my lisp it wasn’t the best programme to start with. And I remember going into the studio and it was Ken Connor[…]

Jonathan Balcon

[…]sp;28:21  Well that could be so I suppose because of his age.  Jonathan Balcon  28:23  But I didn't hear from Simon.  I heard on Monday.  Roy Fowler  28:26  But Simon was there last night but he didn't say anything. But […]

Chili (Dorothy) Bouchier

[…] wasn’t really the sort of person who gets onto directors and asks them for work but I rang Wilcox and said “I want to be in Carnival, I want to play Simonetta in Carnival”. He said “Oh, you do, do you? Well you’d better send me some photographs.” So, from The Call of the Sea, I had been playing a S[…]
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