E M (Michael) Smedley Aston

[…]t because I'm not exactly given to great sort of word pictures. But the fact was that there was a great deal of I would say enthusiasm around. As you will know, ACT was not exactly firmly established in those days.Roy Fowler: Oh I don't think it existed.E.M. Smedley-Aston: So...well it was[…]

Jill Balcon (Day-Lewis)

[…]r  6:24   That was his choice, as well as her accepting. Jill Balcon  6:27  It was exactly, she was willing entirely. I mean, she was not in the least bit. I don't want to imply that she was an unwilling slave, but everything was your father, this yo[…]

Ella Mallet

[…]lla Mallett : They've had 100 years of film.Roy Fowler : Since we're recording on audiotape, I won't take the time to look at a book now because that will baffle the people listening to the tape in future years. But I will mention the book - it's called 'Happy Birthday Hollywood: One Hundred Years o[…]

Roy Fowler

[…]Caption because the cameras or something was always breaking down. And a camera would go onto The Panic Caption, which would say ‘normal service will be resumed shortly’. And there were transcriptions up in the control room that said with this wonderful BBC accent which I can do to this day and[…]

Keith Ewart

[…]ol, the man responsible for the for the academic standards in the school who obviously, I had never been his treasure, and he said, I don't know what will happen to you after the army said, finish up in the BBC. I should think. And there you are. You see, they did actually know their boys. And as it[…]

Robert Beatty

[…]t, he was a wild man in many ways.Robert Beatty: I never got to know him that well, it was one or two days.Roy Fowler: The producer was an American, [William] Bill Sistrom, do you remember him at all?Robert Beatty: I remember the name but I don't recall him.Roy Fowler: The script was by Terence Youn[…]

Norman Fisher

[…] in that reel or would it go into all the reels?Norman Fisher: Yes. It was a flyer in a single copy. Anyway, if it kept them happy you did it for goodwill's sake. But football and sport in general was very much the staple thing. And ... can you hang on a minute [ends abruptly]Roy Fowler: ... Recordi[…]

Dennis Kimbley

[…]training to be a navigator, and they decided they got too many anyway. So the discharge is all a few 100. And then about three or four days later, we will call it up into the army. I tried to draw in the army commander Corps and the army photographic unit. But didn't get into that. I probably the re[…]

Reg Sutton

[…] And his brother of course was Sutton the carrier who left his fortune, or most of it, a million and a quarter, to found Sutton�s Dwellings. That was William Sutton who ran a carrying business from Golden Lane in the City. My grandfather was a distiller and brewer and they both had shares in each ot[…]

Ted Candy

[…], then you did whatever happened. If there was a raid up there, you did it. You were always looking for stories everywhere. And you see the news, you will mean they, they didn't have a lot of money. And if. Even going to send you anywhere. They try and work out a route for you so that you could call[…]
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