Muriel Box (Gardiner) (née Baker)

[…]I could see nothing that I could do from a school. I really got much more from reading after I left school than I ever got at school.Sidney Cole : It sounds as if that was largely due to rather authoritarian teachers.Muriel Box : Something like that I think, they didn't pay attention to you. My daug[…]

John Halas

[…]sweet individual as well. He saved me when I was arrested in East Germany for instance at Leipzig. May I to you this story? Bob Godfrey: Yes, it sounds interesting. John Halas: I was doing work in Munich, West Germany and I had to go to the Leipzig Festival where I was on the jury. And I f[…]

Sidney Gilliat

[…];business was completely interna­tional. So when you walked on the stage, as I did on that first day, the two big stages, with no sound, of course, before that,so you saw a big stage with even five films being shot on. And a babel of noise and contrasting musi[…]

Hugh Stewart

[…]t, who was the production manager said to me, "Well why don't you say something?" And I said, "What's the use in saying anything about it? It'll only sound like sour grapes. I'm learning, I'm doing what I want to." Well that was all over and then Victor was making films with MGM and I went on holida[…]

Betty Batchelor

[…] of the research department two years later on.    She's been on two managerial courses and she doesn't know the outcome yet. David is sound recordist and he's gone freelance. He worked for ATV, no Anglia, and then he went freelance. Robert, he worked for the Observer, he started his […]

Paula Wright (Springall)

[…]him a lot of pilots and of course I knew Kay candles.Unknown Speaker  21:28  I wish my memory was better, butSpeaker 1  21:30  it sounds pretty good for me. Could be a lot better. What is your main What if you had to pick one or two main memories of your career? What would you wh[…]

Doris Martin

[…]I think there's a bit of fog coming up don't you? Yeah alright, put the light on. And it was as clear as mud, we'd have to slip them something not to sound the foghorns [Laughter]. So they were on a good thing while we were there. But they loved us going there because we brought out fresh milk every[…]

Bessie Bond (née Span)

[…] left Glasgow by this time. We have a long way to go I think before then.Q I just wondered, you know, ...A Oh, dreadful life, absolutely ghastly.Q It sounds as if it were a very lonely life.A Ghastly, and a born loser. Absolute born loser. And she was a lovely woman, absolutely lovely, warm woman. A[…]
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