Christine Whittaker

[…]various things with Eddy and eventually, in the early ‘70s we started to work on history programmes. I think at that time it was obviously known that Thames Television was making World at War and we knew it was going to be a fantastic series.... I am not a historian, as I said, I was a linguist, but[…]

John Jeffrey

[…]rn equipment; before Humphries crumbled JJ offered these satellite labs to Rank who purchased them – they were handy for TV; Bill Lloyd; Roger Beck – Thames Television; JJ discusses the regional TV stations and personnel; ‘greasing palms’ for business; Stanley Kubrick used to send presents to Humphr[…]

Ena Baga

[…] you left Blackpool.EB: I came back to London, I’d given up my flat in Hamstell Hill, and my Mother in Law had got a little bungalow in Shepperton on Thames, and that’s where, when Jim was demobbed, that was the only home we had to go to. And it was there, I had a call from, I’ll think of his name i[…]

Marion Grierson (Taylor)

[…] to get back down without disaster. Another episode where I had the same thing happen was from shooting from the top of the building at the river, at Thames House and there was a parapet that I managed to walk along quite happily till I looked down as soon as I looked down I had to creep back pushin[…]

Peter T Handford

[…]here. It was really an undertaking. I wish I could remember the title of the film but it was Michael Redgrave and Sally Grey I think. It was shown on television fairly recently. He sees what he thinks is a murder being committed. He sees it from an underground train.M Was it an Agatha Christie story[…]
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