Search Results for: Variety (London Correspondent 1947-1985)

        EXTRACT: On losing the job of a lifetime:- "I said a permanent job in films or television would be like winning the pools - any kind of a job, I’d be grateful. I suddenly got a phone call one day to see this guy called Ward Thomas, so I go traipsing […]

This transcription was provided in 2015 by the AHRC-funded ‘History of Women in British Film and Television project, 1933-1989’, led by Dr Melanie Bell (Principal Investigator, Leeds University) and Dr Vicky Ball (Co-Investigator, De Montfort University).   BECTU History ProjectInterv[…]

Manny Yospa  0:00  Where were you  born when and your general backgroundNick Ardizzone  0:07  I was born in 1939. in Kent. It was right at the beginning of the Second World War. I was born on September the eighth, five days after the beginning of the war. My father was an ar[…]

 (cut off) 1994 Tape 1 side 1 Eileen Diss, interview number 323.I: Where were you born?ED: In Hackney, East LondonI: Ah, what kind of schooling did you receive?ED: Very ordinary Elementary School and the 11 plus to the local Grammar School which was Guilford County High School fo[…]

[…]ved in Hampstead because he was one of the Un-American lot, because his wife was, in fact, a communist. I mean, she was Ella Winter. She'd been a war correspondent in Moscow, and she was, she was a real American red, I mean, there's no question about it. And I worked at their Hampstead house, and I […]