Charles Picken

[…]a Scene! Odeon Cinemas were also still represented in the suburbs with the Odeon’s at Byker and Gateshead as well as further afield in Sunderland and South Shields. ABC Cinemas’ flagship was the ABC Haymarket which had been initially commissioned by Dixon Scott’s family in 1933.  It remain[…]

John Ammonds

[…]Dickens, Charles Dickens and he used to adapt the books as plays. And he formed a group of players called the Dickensian Tabard Players, based in the Southwark area of Kennington, Southwark it was really I think. And they had rooms there where he used to rehearse these amateur performers doing Dicke[…]

Yvonne Littlewood

[…] or mice’? because we saw one or two in the lift. And while we were there, I can remember the day, Aubrey Singer and a nice gentleman who went to, to Southern, who was also in OBs.Yes, somebody Smith?Barclay Smith.Barclay Smith, mm.They joined while we were, we were there, I can remember Aubrey’s fi[…]

Phil Windeatt

[…]uring this period? It was fantastic. It was pub rock, and punk was starting, and that’s what interested me, and there was this enormous fight in South East London against the National Front, and we were part of that, er, and it was a hell of a political period and there was Lewisham and you kno[…]

Dennis Main Wilson

[…]he Germans didn't have a chance. So I worked on lots of weekly programmes. One, for example, was called Kurt und Willi , and they're set in a sort of Southern German town.[Side 1, 18:48]  NS: So this is in which language or many languages?DMW: In German.NS: Yeah, just one language.DMW:  18[…]

Val Guest

[…]y.RF: Unlimited hours.VG: Yes, oh another strange character was called Michael Carr, he was one of our big song writers here, he's dead now, he wrote South of the Border, he was song writer, and his real name was Maurice Beresford, and when we were making Innocents of Chicago, which was a gangster t[…]

David Robson

[…] the company, "Look, we're no better off." We'd moved to South Bank by this time, and we didn't have enough […]
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