[…]hem. I got an instruction that if the Russians moved through Europe Gibraltar is a crucial strategic stronghold. It's perfectly possible the Russians will move through Europe occupy the whole of Europe and once again Gibraltar will be our only foothold on the continent of Europe this puts your role […]
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[…]ve bought a big mansion up the hill by Hillingdon church called Bishops Holt and they opened a big school there and two terms after I went there this will be 1927. We moved up to Bishop's Holt. So again there was a disturbance so a sort of three times in my early career I had to change schools and I[…]
[…]ce], it was packed, like Piccadilly Circus. The other anecdote I’ve got about it is – I think it was the early part of the war - a man called Wendell Willkie who was a potential president of the United States, he was a Republican. He came over here obviously to get publicity and so on, he did London[…]
[…]EAKER: F2Yes the broad for teens it was called as I recall.SPEAKER: M2And of course the American Army Film Unit was also there and I seem to remember William Wyler doing his Memphis Belle thing upstairs at Pinewood so there was a lot of very exciting things happening and Edward G Robinson was starri[…]
[…] of our microphone at the age of 10. And the children's our broadcast, television, radio. My mother acted with the W Gate Theatre. She had acted with William poor who was either a pioneer in Shakespeare production in EnglandJohn Taylor 4:21 locks his name,Paddy Carey 4:22 Wil[…]
[…]powerful effect on me.SPEAKER: M14The musical numbers perhaps in the Jesse Matthews film that was there was clearly something working there. Also the Will Hey films the trio of comics again with the Louis leaving music somehow worked on me but I was I never considered myself as it were of an intelle[…]
[…]a member of the committee. The date Tuesday the 16th of November 1993. Our recordist is our esteemed Chairman Roy Fowler. And we're all you know that will add some supplementary questions. This is tape one, side one. Gerald, you and I have been colleagues in Independent Television since 1957. I thin[…]
[…]LSON: Yes. He ran this coach company when I suppose one of the regular crisis that our industry goes through and always has done and I suppose always will and there was a situation that my father analysed, the railways at that time were expensive and he found that by taking a coach full of people, t[…]
[…]dren, I think. And they would prefer it when I was seriously ill about six or seven. They would have preferred it if I had died. It would be in God's will. And that would mean that we were an expense of the nuisance in about 1936 when I was 20 apparently I heard a talk on the radio by Anthony Asquit[…]
