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[…]tary offers to proofread this and/or other interviews. If you want to help, please contact BEHP Secretary, sue.malden@btinternet.com.Harry Coventry Interview Nick Gilbey 0:00 We had to start with a little bit of a spiel. British entertainment history project intervie[…]
[…]stmancolor negatives of at least from the mid-‘60s let’s say where the, I think the danger of fading is, in normal conditions, much, much slower, and try and do the thought experiment to work backwards. There’s also, I suppose, a sense that even with digital, all the digital grading tools that are t[…]
[…]nd went in. And I said, "What's the trouble? Is there something I've done that you don't like?!" And he said, "No, I'm thinking of going to London to try my luck down south." He said, "I've had one or two offers." He'd been touring with a show down there for years before. And he said, "So, I'm going[…]
[…]erview or whatever. But basically, you were quite isolated when you were out on the road. You came back with your tape and you'd an idea, I tended to try and structure it, like most people do, when I was coming back - that's my best clip, that's my best picture - and tell Production what you had or […]
[…] closed minds. And what we all knew about I think, was writers, and how to talk to writers. And, and how to, I wouldn't say bring them on, but how to try and do the best possible work with them. So the ethos was, was was very open. For example, I mean, David did live up there in Birmingham. I mean, […]
[…]omedian, Jimmy Logan, who'd come south to do as soon as the BBC. And always remember Jimmy saying to me, if I wear a kilt, the audience will think is trying too hard. And if I don't wear a kilt, the balls back home with seeds sold out. So you had a bit of a problem. And there was a lovely man who'd […]
[…]u know, that kind of thing. It really wasn't a good thing. And quite honestly, the best thing that happened to me, I think, was joining the film industry. Next best thing was coming to Hampstead (laughter) which was very relaxed... About colour and religion. 03:57At school did you have many whi[…]
[…] did you go and stay with him? You mentioned...Larry Allen: Well my Grandfather, you see he retired from the stage and his sons had moved off to Coventry - that's from Merthyr Tydfil to Coventry - so he went and joined 'em then. So what happened after this winter of despair, you know, with me Dad ou[…]
[…]. And so I realised my god and Brian redhead rang out and said, We liked the piece very much. What are you doing in Cheltenham? And I said, Well, I'm trying to get a job on the guardian. And he said, Well, look, we haven't got anything at the moment. But when we have our right to, but six or eight m[…]