[…]ple and suddenly...When suddenly...It was quite isolated.In home, where were you living?We were told not to go back. We were still, we were living at Thames Ditton.Y es.At that time. We had a, had a flat there when we got married, quite a nice little flat,and really I was told at that stage, it was […]
[…]he Great War, where IWM was one of the co-producers and Noble Frankland was, I think, one of the historical advisors, and in the 1970s came along the Thames Television Great War series, which was kind of The Great War but more so because Jeremy Isaacs and his team working on the Great War wanted to […]
[…]us being just an actor. But in point of fact not at all, he behaved just like any other reasonable actor. I always remember on the floor at Walton on Thames where we were shooting Harry Watt was directing but he was directing on the other unit and I wanted him to direct another episode and he said h[…]
[…] actor. I always remember on the floor at Walton on Thames where we were shooting, Harry Watt was directing but […]
[…]ith ATV I should think. PB-C: Sure. DB: Yes, I’d agree with that. When I first went outside the BBC, where I’d been born and brought up, to Thames, the difference there was just extraordinary, I mean every inch of carpet was checked and measured and costed, you know. PB-C: Yeah, yeah.[…]
[…] it's came out. And as usual, it's sort of, you know, your life changed. And you and each, I just never did that. So I decided that I - So commercial television, by the time I got out the Navy just begun. And Associated Rediffusion was renowned in those days being run as a naval ship. I've never the[…]
[…]a certain amount of location work didn't it, I imagine?Peggy Gick: Yes, a little there I think.John Legard: I remember the film quite well, it was on television not so long ago.Peggy Gick: The deck stuff was all done, as I say, on this deck that was built [up].John Legard: That of course, ['Mid Ship[…]
[…]t.com.Bill Ward Side 1 Alan Lawson 0:00 The copyright of this recording is vested in the Bectu History Project, Bill Ward, television technician since 1936 director, producer, programme executive, interviewer, Norman Swallow with Alan Lawson recorded on the 21st of January[…]
[…] freelance. And the films I did with him, the first one we did at Walton, a film with Gene GerrardAlan Lawson: Which studioFreddie Francis: Walton on Thames, where dear old Geoff Faithful was the resident cameraman and dear old Arthur Grant was his camera operator. That was one film and I did two mo[…]
