[…]s Bower  33:41No, I did this one film and a short called "First of the Ebb", which as its name implies is about the turn of the tide on the Thames.  "The Path of Glory" it has an interesting career, you know, because it was an immensely successful radio play you see by a man call[…]
[…]ht, strangely enough, was, who, a friend, and he kind of directed some of this. And I directed some of it. We were both directing. I was on the River Thames with a, with the police and everything, directing these shots with this, with, what’s his name? Terence something, quite a well-known actor, in[…]
[…]ing that relates?Joan Kemp-Welch: Well, chiefly I remember - and this, again, possibly is connected with the theatre - I was living in Henley on Thames, I had a stable loft somewhere in Henley on Thames, and I used to come up by train every day and I used to come up with Hermione Gingold and - […]
[…]people but a very wide swathe or deep drift oftalent that we had. A lot of them moved on from Granada like Jeremy Isaacs who went toRediffusion, BBC; Thames, Channel Four. Graham McDonald who became something veryimportant in the BBC, Mark Shivas, John Birch who is now the Deputy Director General, n[…]
[…] fantasies.One of them, which I think is one of the best things he ever did, was to sail a U-boat in wartime up the English Channel, turn left up the Thames, turn left at the Embankment into the underground system, which was fabulous. Very quickly, the story was it is 1939, the war, it is Friday nig[…]
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[…]ittle questionnaire: where would you like to be in two year’s time? And I said I would like to be a researcher on historical documentaries working at Thames Television. And I’m happy to say that two year’s later, that’s where I was. MW: How wonderful! So few people manage to achieve exactly wha[…]
[…]’s her name a can’t remember the - er- woman have you got it there? No anyway - it’s a series with Anton Rodgers - yeah - it’ll come - er Q: For Thames?01:21:41JOE: For Thames  a detective sort of and wom… man and wife  ‘Thin Man’ sort of thing - and I was asked to do it. The producer[…]
[…]ed Gravesend in Kent, and I can remember my mother pulling me out of bed in the early hours of the morning, looking out of the window overlooking the Thames, and we could see a Zeppelin coming - it was a moonlit night. And I do remember during that period I was at a dance school - I remember enterta[…]
[…] went on the air, isn't it? Yes, so frost and Jay and Marsh came down one the time they wanted to do TV. AM, and I've got a tape London Weekend news, Thames news, where frost and Jay are standing outside this building, saying, This is where it's all going to be done. I was in America at the time. Th[…]
