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[…]same point as that, the BBC decided to step up their Arabic service broadcasts because it was really important to get as much news across to the Arab world as possible, so they tripled the hours at the time when most of the staff had left.  So, it ended up with Lionel Basri myself and Niem, not[…]

[…]ay, because, I quickly realised that, as an editor you could spend quite a lot of time with your children; if they were ill, it wasn’t the end of the world if the editor wasn’t there, and things like that. As a director, you had to be there from seven in the morning regardless or the whole film came[…]

[…] and think of myself as rather priggish I think in someways. And...6Most of us were when we were young weren’t we?Yes, I think I took you, I took the world quite seriously. I mean growing up during the war and towards the end of the war I remember going to a conference at Westminster Halls for the C[…]

[…]day because if you were doing music...Yes.Say you were doing an orchestral programme, you have to script. I mean the, the interesting thing about the world that I've been part of is that you don't have a script. You see if you do a drama you have a script and somebody writes it for you and sends28Yv[…]

[…].Who?Louise Trenton. And she sang for him, well with, they had a wonderful crew of the people, this group that she sang with in the war, in The First World War, was composed of people like Chaliapin and [Laughter] all sorts of interesting pros. Anyway she stayed. My father took me back to America at[…]

[…]Roy Fowler: What other devices have you invented - pioneered?Vernon Sewell: Well, I invented a gyro stabiliser, because in 'The Edge of the World' which I did with Mickey there was a lot of sea stuff, you see. And I made a gyro stabiliser out of an airship automatic pilot, but the gyros we[…]

[…] playing a "biddy." And from then on I was an actor - a very bad one, by the way, I think - but I was an actor right up 'til I went into the army for World War One, when I was seventeen. Then I was in France for over a year, fighting Germans. Then I came back, and I had no profession. So I went on t[…]