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[…] Which will come to me in a moment I'll always try to dodge that in fact the next film of […]
[…] trying to be original rule the airwaves. We used to try and make documentaries that we would enjoy watching ourselves; […]
[…]raham and Graham sock and Kevin's corner would say everybody's lines to finish the sketch so we could come out on time. So it was all a bit traumatic trying time shows. And of course, timing didn't matter because the advertisements that went in in the middle and at the end actually paid for the prog[…]
[…] you Peter for taking part in this. So just to start, perhaps you could tell us a little bit about your early career when you went into the film industry?PL: Well I won a scholarship and I didn’t get the eleven-plus, but there was a scholarship available for thirteen-plus and I won it, with some fri[…]
[…]p;R: But it was changed days there, I mean the cameras took ages to line up and whether it was worth bothering lining them up sometimes and you would try it with a test card that was sort of maybe eight feet by five feet and out in the rain with a huge test card out in the middle of a football field[…]
[…]ed [Laughter] The Croydon School of Building it was called, which is colloquially known as the ‘brickbashers’, mm, where I learnt, mm, I learnt carpentry and bricklaying, a bit of elementary plumbing, welding, draughtmanship et cetera, mm, bits and pieces of that sort of thing. I mean[…]
[…]urock in Cragburn Pavilion in Gourock - where I played straight man to my father - at the age of - I think I was twenty - yeah at the age of twenty - trying to do a middle age policeman and stuff like that. And at the end of the season I thought - no - I think I’ll do something else, and[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]t, when you take it on as a profession, perhaps, you’re just concentrating on the words. Later, when I was in South Africa at school, I used to do poetry and elocution lessons, and we used to then have to speak poetry in public for exams, and I began to enjoy doing that because I loved the words. It[…]