[…]rupt. Can you tell the story of the German you captured.Alexander Faris: My prisoner. Yes it was a Strange Story Of the thing that can happen between two people in the middle of a World War. We entered a town called Walkenswaard, anyway it was on the way to Arnheim where we were trying to get to and[…]
[…]knocking on the windows of the train drivers' to get them there in time to get the train out. So I had very little education really. I went to one or two what in those days, and you'll probably remember, what were called elementary schools, which was the lowest common denominator.And when I was abou[…]
[…]. And so I was sent off to theNancy Tbomas DRAFT Page 2administrator who said, ‘Now, let’s see, what, you speak French and German and that’ll be two pounds five and a penny’. So I said, ‘Lovely, thank you very much’. And I went home and said to my mother, ‘I’ve got a job in the National Gallery[…]
[…] brought up. And they were married, and I was born shortly after they arrived. And my father - there were four children, I have a brother, David, and two sisters, and they were born by 1914. My father went into the army and he was with the DCLI and with the Gloucesters. But the war disorientated him[…]
[…]RF: Who was running Denham then. CH: Denham was a film studio which housed a number of production companies, the two principle ones in my time was Two Cities Films and IndependentProducers now Jimmy Sloan was the general ma[…]
[…] DRAFT Tape 1 Side A ‘Martin Churzlewit’? Yes. ‘Tale Of Two Cities’, ‘Count Of Monte Cristo’, ‘Elusive Pimpernel’, ‘Ivanhoe’, ‘Hereward the […]
[…] there were four children, I have a brother, David, and two sisters, and they were born by 1914. My father […]
[…] my penultimate film, called ‘A Century of Coal’) – simply because it was hidden. Well it was a revelation to me, and I tried for 50 years to get a network of some description to make a film on this extraordinary phenomenon of the Kent coalfield. Because coal – if you wish me to expand on that I wil[…]
[…]s around, pass it down, you know. [Laughter]Sure. Have you any idea of the quantity of production at that time? I mean was there a play every week or two plays every week?Oh yes, yes. There was, well the big offering, I don’t, I don’t, I don’t think we had terribly generic titles in those days but I[…]
[…] my family to stay on in sixth form: six O’Levels; two A Levels, in those d ays that was good […]
