[…]EVILLE WORTMAN: Well, we didn’t have much school during The Blitz really because we were in the shelters most of the time, having singsongs and trying to conduct an education as best as people could really. (TIME 07:05)  So, it was a kind of tough but it was an exciting time […]
[…]m the kings of Ireland, so it was like a, I mean, they didn't have a title themselves, either of my parents, my mother, my mother, was more landed gentry from Scotland and Yorkshire background. But my father grew up in a very sort of privileged world where people moved from house to house depending […]
[…]ect, the partition factor is very deeply because our families are divided as well, some of whom stayed in India, and some of whom went to the new country called Pakistan, which none of us knew, because they're in different parts of the subcontinent in the Punjab, which I'm totally unfamiliar with. S[…]
[…]n 1941, partly I think because Oxford was considered a very safe place to be born at that time, but then I grew up for the rest of the war in the country and did not go back to London with my family until 1946.00.53 The first film I ever saw, strangely enough, was Nanook of the North which I saw qui[…]
[…]self Bob.Bob Jordan [BJ]: Good morning. My name's Robert Jordan. Today is the 20th of June I believe. I'm here to talk about my life in the film industry.[01:00:16:010] JK: Would you like to say how you started out? BJ: Well basically I had no idea I was coming in the film industry. I went[…]
[…]t that point? Were there family strings to pull or or did you?David Croft  6:14  I think the usual thing was that you know family try to pull strings, but I didn't want any help, actually. And so they can open the door for you, but they can't help push you through it really, real[…]
[…];Bobbi Riesel  0:39  because my microphone is pointing out that way it's picking up. That's okay. It actually doesn't stay. I did try and have it facing outwards, but sorry, that must make a terrible noise if you want to take you can hear it, right?  Paul Lecker &n[…]
[…]w which is around five feet 11 I I had a 16 year old face, but a masculine body right. And I could get small parts I went into Penge,  Coventry and various places earning very little money. And sometimes they stuck a grey wig on my head and put a moustache on where I play an older person. […]
[…]cks, the Royal Albert dock, and so on, doing the heavy engineering work. And we hadn't been bombed out of East Ham. We lived in what was relative country in those days, which was Ashford in Middlesex. And in fact, my very first memory, my first sorry, my first dateable memory was 1940, September 194[…]
[…]and I suppose then the, that, once the film’s handed over thatmust have ceased. By then I'd got to know quite a lot of people in the studio. And, I'm trying to think what happened. Oh yes, and, and went over for a while to Two Cities Films, who, that was their headquarters at the time, with, with a […]
