Virginia McKenna

[…]the Beast – and Trish Van Devere, his real wife, played Beauty.[125] That was directed by an old friend of ours called Fielder Cook,[126] an American director. And then I did a film called The Disappearance (1977) with Donald Sutherland.[127] It was a tiny part – one scene or two scenes, or somethin[…]

Anne Hanford

[…]ime basis.SUE MALDEN: [TIME 05:12]    That makes sense.  So what year did you move to London?ANNE HANFORD:  When I was married in 1956. SUE MALDEN:  And did you get a job in London as well.ANNE HANFORD:  Yes, I did.  I worked in Nottingham Public Library which[…]

Hazel Allen

[…]words. And he did and he appliedUnknown Speaker  1:20  Well, he built a reputation obviously with the broadcaster he was known all day. The BBC. Yes.Unknown Speaker  1:27  Oh, he wasn't.Unknown Speaker  1:31  I mean, 70 Have you been lied? Yes. ButUnknown Speaker  […]

Dallas Bower

[…] yes, well the features department, the drama division let's call it that was run by Laurence Gilliam and I was simply posted to this division of the BBC. And I was I was there as it were to do whatever was wanted of me and I, amongst other things and unofficially, I became Val's, whom I knew person[…]

David Elstein

[…]ed being Producer and made The Day Before Yesterday re post-war British politics, and I did 2 episodes, one on Bevin and Palestine, other on Eden and Suez. Bevin and Palestine was ironic, because that would have been my subject for postgraduate work at Oxford: “I got round to it eventually”. Really […]

Martin Gibbons

[…]t series of Hancock's half hour on BBC television, and then a second series that followed it. So Tony's first series was a say a Tony Hancock show in 1956. It was written by Eric Sykes exotics, in fact, appears in one of the episodes and the first couple of episodes were also co written by Larry Ste[…]

Nancy Thomas

[…]time, and then I saw this advertisement in The Times for an assistant secretary to the Director-General ofNancy Tbomas DRAFT Page 8the BBC. And I said to Kenneth Clark, ‘I’m going to apply for this’. And he said, ‘Oh, for heaven’s sake, you can’t do that. I mean Sir William Haley isn’[…]

Peter Dimmock

[…]e lucky we weren’t concerned with politics only peripherally.  We did the Eisenhower and McMillan meeting in Downing Street live, and we did the Suez crisis with Eden, I remember sitting on the sofa with Charles Hill who was Minister of Information I think at that time, and Clarissa – was that […]

James Arthur Clark

[…]have to be union members and working through for the Film Institute and stuff like that. Not not question. Did you see the rushes separately from the director. Or did you see it in my recollection and it could be wrong. He would see them with the producers the associate producers. I don't believe he[…]
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