[…]e studio, the VTX really, really did look upon us as a kid. They, you know, they were very proud of what we did, and what we managed and what we were trying to do. And so they'd always go the extra length to help us, youSpeaker 1 18:37 learned a lot on the job. What kind of skills did yo[…]
[…] your place of birth and nationality?Speaker 2 0:34 My name is Matt. Matthew Ervin in full. I was born in July 1948. In London on my ancestry, it goes back to New Zealand.Speaker 1 0:47 And what sort of family were you born into?Speaker 2 0:52 My family I was the […]
[…]friend of mine saw the pilots body being taken out.Unknown Speaker 3:09 Not long ago, I saw that air raid wardens were being told that to try to prevent panic because we were coming under attack that there was no defence again. If they heard that kind of talk, which was actually quite ac[…]
[…]ve an outside aerial. It was an inside aerial and it looked Sputnik with a couple of wires from it and I always remember my Dad moving about the room trying to get a picture and we'd say, "Hold it! Hold it! Hold it!" and he was in an uncomfortable position but eventually it did get a roof aerial!&nb[…]
[…]ccessful applicants. We didn't realise the scale of what we had achieved in terms of that sort of amount of people chasing a job in this amazing industry. But when I got into STV, I kind of quickly realised the people in it were the best and brightest that had been other places like the BBC and had […]
[…]bsp; That was ITV in those days. A bit of a battlefield, industrial disputes. Thames had many notorious disputes. Trying to run a creative programme with overtime bans/travel bans – “Brothers I know what you’re doing but boy is it getting in the way”. &[…]
[…]o saw the line “girl enters in cami knickers” they sent for me. I swear they didI: There’s a little thing here called Soldier Sailor which was a ministry of information short of somethingJK: Oh yes, that was a sort of women’s forces thing. I was the soldier, and Pat Roc was sailor and I don’t rememb[…]
[…]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[…]
