E M (Michael) Smedley Aston

[…]n various things. They were good. John Warren, whose real name was Warner, was an ex-actor, and he used to do that terrible commercial programme for ATV in Birmingham, Mrs Somebody's Lodger, who was it? Don't you remember? Well you were probably very lucky not to see them. I only saw them because I […]

Sheila Collins

[…]l production office. So really, though I’ve worked with, on pictures, with and met and done work for, you know, as we mentioned, Zanuck, Preminger, Litvak, well, all these people, only by secondary impact have they affected me. How they’ve worked on the picture of course has affected the way I’ve wo[…]

Manny Yospa

[…] Drazin: So they didn't use it in any - no TV company took over? Manny Yospa: Well I don't think […]

Gordon Courcha

[…]ng me my career.Unknown Speaker  5:53  When I finished the three yearsUnknown Speaker  5:58  that BBC had lost a lot of staff to ITV, of course, because there was nowhere else to recruit them from. So I joined the BBC.Unknown Speaker  6:09  It turned out not to really b[…]

Interview

[…] was he Midland? Was he Midland? But Midland - they both had something to do with films, Southern, Midland, and there were in addition to the Railway Executive, as it was then called, under the Commission - there was the Docks Executive, the Waterways and all the other people - we eventually made fi[…]

Emmanuel (Manny) Yospa

[…]ed to the building once Gainsborough... ?Manny Yospa: Oh I think it was left derelict for some time.Charles Drazin: So they didn't use it in any - no TV company took over?Manny Yospa: Well I don't think - there weren't any TV companies in those days, just the BBC! Er, no filming was done there, I th[…]
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