[…]een Mother...er... the lady who is now the Queen Mother, called 'Britannia is a Woman'[?], er, and about two years later in '41, when I was a foreign correspondent with the Navy, or Naval correspondent, War correspondent, in the Middle East, um, I made my first ever ten or twenty, depending who you […]
[…]I'm not quite sure of that. JOHN. I would imagine it would be for services rendered during during the war. He he was he I have it still. He was a war correspondent and I have that badge  that is so everything it was services to his country.Alan Lawson  19:47  I just wondering what it […]
[…] plotting and analysing traces of her creative labour through a variety of primary sources, most notably Harris’s annotated costume sketches […]
[…]ut the favourite star in the studio was, he was making the film but he also had a date in the, not Peterborough, somewhere fairly close to London, in Variety, for one week which he wouldn’t give up, he wanted to play it. So a studio car used to drive him up after we finished shooting to the theatre […]
[…]xtraordinary films go through my hands which I’d never ever envisaged being on film; and it’s partly how I came to love non- fiction a lot – the huge variety and entertainment value in non-fiction films is extraordinary. And then films as an historical record of the whole century just blows my mind […]
[…]iting a very successful series for commercial television, called the Arthur Haynes Show, [Haynes was] one of Britain's leading old-fashioned stand-up variety comedians, which have been a huge success. It ran for 10 years. There were over 150 shows and they all still exist in the ITC library, I don’t[…]
[…]the BBC and thought ‘let's see if we can use the press here.’ So I met a guy, met this bloke… for lunch called Robin Stringer, who was then the media correspondent for The Standard. And then there was a guy with him, Brian Attwood, who ended up being the editor of The Stage. And I said to them, “Thi[…]
[…]irty fight. And I've really no idea who won it. I was only thankful that nobody ever asked me for my deposition.SPEAKER: M16Be interesting to look up variety and read the accounts and. I was curious about David Putnam's manner of leaving what he did was he just not there one day or did he make a gra[…]
[…]ought the band in free of charge it was in their own interest of course of all the Hilton productions own interest because they put some of the early variety shows in there not least of all was a an old time music all day show called the Jubilee show, directed by Peter Croft and starring many people[…]
[…]dcasts but by and large it was a theatre a week plus sometimes 2 Sunday concerts. They worked very hard in those days. One period I remember the Cine Variety, my father was doing 7 shows a day between the Dominion, Tottenham Court Rd., and the Elephant and Castle, starting at midday and going on unt[…]
