[…]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 […]
[…]and her daughter was going to the Royal Academy and she said “You know, Peter loves acting, do you think he could … why doesn’t he go to the RADA and try to get in to the RADA.” Now, you have to remember, I was so shy I couldn’t put two words together and I mean it. I was by then 15, 16,[…]
[…] Hickey: Well, it all started on 29th July 1914, I think I helped to start the First World War off! I was born and my mother, at the time, in the country, where there was no money. And she decided after a while that the best thing she could do was to come to England and get a job and sort me out aft[…]
[…]versity though? Lord Brabourne 1:22 Which was a braised nose college but just just for nine months during the war? Yes. I was really trying to find everybody young person who said he wanted to get in the army.So I went through that to the quickest way is your husband Adriana. Is tha[…]
[…]’t hold. [Laughter] But anyhow I kicked a very large space, I was going so fastthat I got right out in to the thin part in the channel you see, I was trying to sort of fight my way back to some hard ice. And some, somebody, a young man was walking along on the banks in the, on the mainland had just […]
[…] except cinema and we actually played truant one day, I think we were in the fourth form as a matter of fact. We chose a day when we had double chemistry because we both hated chemistry and we went up to town on the bus and we had lunch at the Corner House. We'd saved for this form months and months[…]
[…]eighbour. And there were always film units on location run there, you know. And so I suppose that is what led me to sort of think about the film industry, which I really knew nothing. I did actually apply for a job in 1938, to Alexander Korda and had a very nice letter from somebody called David Cun[…]
[…] got demobbed. Geoff Conway: Yes. Manny Yospa: Did you go abroad? Geoff Conway: No I didn't go abroad, just training in this country. I was earmarked to go abroad at one time but because of the necessity of people needed for training purposes here I had to stay. So I stayed here[…]
[…]e Army he moved to Canterbury I believe – obviously I don’t remember that – the first thing I remember was when he was made the vicar of a little country parish in Kent near Edenbridge and we lived there until he was taken very ill and he died after a very long illness. He had consumption. He died w[…]
[…] as policemen and policemen to dress up as miners and try to recreate it to show how it felt to […]
