[…]ort of films.’ Or ‘I don’t want him because he’s,’ you know, this.
Mhm.
But, I don’t think I’ve come across...
Well the ambition was to be a director. What happened there, did you abandon it, or did it abandon you?
I abandoned it really. I could have been a director. I could be a directo[…]
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[…]r was sent out to India, where he was in charge of the Bombay Dockyard, and we went out on the first ship the Cape Town Castle which went through the Suez Canal and it was the very first time I had seen a banana because of course I had been a wartime baby, and never seen anything like that before, s[…]
[…]he experience because you haven’t got the ticket. And the only way into the union at that stage was either via the labs, the film laboratories or the BBC. So that was clearly a very important thing to do. In fact, a lady who turned out to be my mother-in-law, saw in a newspaper, a tiny little thing […]
[…]gates Come on. How good are the habits abroad? What stands out in my mind there was that was my start of my association with Ken and again, yeah, the director. He came from the bush having just made holiday camp. He, I think, was it realist? Madden Park. That's it come from baton park with with Sydn[…]
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[…]t take you back a few steps… tell us about National Service BAWhen I first left school in 1950, the first application for a job was to the BBC. Cos I was mad… I had already written up to the BBC for tickets for Variety Bandbox and things like that, to go out to the People’s Palace i[…]
[…] it though, I'm sure, you know. Anyway, after about two years of this, or a little less, you know, I thought this, this isn't really why I joined the BBC. And I used to see on the notice board notices asking for people for television, because it was six, you know, ’46 you see.’46.It was starting up […]
