Cyril Pennington

[…] people who cannot, he didn't have the faintest idea. He'd try to sing the links in Poacher[?] - hadn't any […]

denis-forman

[…] this too much and therefore it was surely important to try and stir people up to recognise that in a […]

daphne-ancell-hp-transcript

[…] a comptometer operator‟. So I said „oh yes, let‟s, we‟ll try for it‟. Anyway so we decided in our wisdom […]

Tilly Day

[…] Yeah, I was gonna say, you didn't go just to try and find the continuity sheets? Tilly Day: [Chuckling.] Yes, […]

Michael Aldridge

[…]d then had the chance to go to Merton Park Studios where I stayed for just over a year as a clapper loader.Michael Aldridge  2:02  The industry then, the film industry that was, became very difficult in the early '60s and I joined Anglia Television, where I spent nearly a year at Norwich o[…]

Johnny (Johnny) Goodman

[…]arge of Production'.      I practically had an erection, it was so totally unbelievable. 'It sounds very interesting,' I said, trying not to leap up in the air. He said, 'I’ll start you off with £10,000 a year' - which was pretty good money then, in the Sixties - 'company[…]

Sheila Whitaker

[…]ember. Right, so early childhood and then...Well, and then...SF: ...your education resumes.Yes, but my father, his job, they moved him around the country from, you know, he was a manager of whatever. And we went first to Manchester, lived in Chorlton-cum-Hardy for about two years, and I passed my, w[…]

Richard Marden

[…]ery early life all your focus and your childhood. Assume so on.Richard Marden  0:37  Yes, well, my parents basically came from the West Country, my father worked the GEC and he was a factory manager in a glassworks, basically at Wembley where there was a big glassworks. There was another o[…]

David Attenborough

[…]25 years later Ann Turner who was John Reid's secretary told me that John Reid had had a letter, a memorandum from Mary Adams saying thanking you for trying out young Attenborough. He's quite good and he's obviously reasonably intelligent but he can't have a future in television because unfortunatel[…]

Charles Crichton

[…]history.SC: Did you take a degree.CC: I did, I actually passed. After I was at Oxford, I was wandering around wondering what my life was going to be, trying different things, seeing what it was like being a journalist and so on. Then I suddenly thought, to hell with it all I'm interested in films.SC[…]
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