[…]time I have to say I was also, and I don't know why again, interested in theatre. I liked acting. I never really got very far with the Oxford Theatre world because it was highly competitive and I am not a particularly competitive person, not good at that. Anyway Lois who was the wife of Dermod Sutcl[…]
[…]s a boy in London?Charles Cooper: Yes well I was the youngest of the family, of nine children. Some of the memories I have are of course of the First World War. There were two boys and seven daughters, seven girls. My brother was conscripted into the army in 1916, very unwillingly, and was wounded w[…]
[…] who were all at Denham. But in my capacity one did not mix with them like one would now. You didn't speak unless spoken to. It was quite a different world.KGY: Would you say at this stage of your career you learned from themCC: A lot. Perhaps not at that very early stage. But when I was in a positi[…]
[…]est cliff, you know, just near Southend in Essex. And so that was that my first school that actually lasted until about the middle of the First World War. And then we were we were moved away from there because this was the route in which these Zeppelins are one of the routes that the Zeppelins[…]
[…]in. [LAUGHTER] And I won money on the race. But the trouble was the manager of the theatre, Frank Boare, quite a character in the theatre world in those days, he heard about it and he said, “Now then, you either stop this or get out”. So I stopped it. [LAUGHTER]ALAN LAWSON: […]
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[…]ompensate for the extra five years.Unknown Speaker 31:51 Ironically, not long afterUnknown Speaker 31:55 I joined what became worldwide television news table. We set up our own pension scheme with retirement at 60. And I did point out thatUnknown Speaker 32:11 tha[…]
[…]on colour film stock? Did you used to follow any of the guides that they used to have in the amateur film magazines?BP: Yes I would read Amateur Cine World and also I was quite interested in stills photography as well so I used to read the photographic magazines. And I was quite interested in the co[…]
[…]P Secretary, sue.malden@btinternet.com. Stanley Watkins 0:00 When it started off, it was right after the First World War. Well before that, about 1919, 12 or so, Arnold, one of our heads of our departments in the labs, had said that now that we got a good ampli[…]
