Peter Tanner

[…]ices, blah blah blah. He said got it all. I said got it all, I don't even know what you're talking about. So he said those are today’s prices. I said will you please repeat them and I got out a pencil and he still read them out at a most fantastic speed. I said please go through them again and he go[…]

Harry Miller

[…]warf called Harry Beasley who fed him everything and there was this great ‘flu epidemic and half the company were off and they were saying, “Well, we will have to cancel the show until you get better” and I overheard it and said “Well, I could do this” because you know you listen to the show and you[…]

Val Guest

[…]d, the in restaurant to top them all, Billy didn't have one cent and he called all the people he knew, and said it's going to be a fantastic opening, will you book a table. There's a guaranteed minimum of so and so. And that way he got his prebooking before the place was done. He got most of his mon[…]

Henry Seward

[…]ht was all occasionally you got a oil burner  Usually it was coal burnerRoy Fowler  20:47  You said earlier that you're descended from William. So I don'tHenry Seward  20:51  know whether I haveRoy Fowler  20:56  going to ask you ifSpeaker 1  20:59  I wil[…]

Tom Peacock

[…] have you been here, Tom? Tom Peacock: Well this September will be my ninth year. Sidney Cole: Hmm. Going back […]

Tom Peacock

[…]eek and he gives you special attention. It's wonderful, it really is...Sidney Cole: How long have you been here, Tom?Tom Peacock: Well this September will be my ninth year.Sidney Cole: Hmm. Going back to your own history, earlier history, did you go into that pipe factory you were talking about earl[…]

Adam Dawson

[…]bsp; We were never taken on because it wasn't big enough,  the company.  If you're Gaumont British or Gainsborough, then you will be taken on the staff. But so after that, I mean, I had this wonderful time of learning about films, having to work fast, and limited space with […]

Dallas Bower

[…]ou have?Dallas Bower  00:29First of all Barr Kindergarten, which was the Froebel Institute, hard by Kensington Hall Gardens; Willingdon School, Putney, which enjoyed the distinction of two very distinguished pupils as they became in later life, Liddell Hart, the military his[…]
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