[…] wanted to be in the film industry, because my I didn't want to follow my father's footsteps. And he was become the leading light in the amateur film world. And I I thought, I want to be a scientist because that's what my uncle was. I thought that sounded interesting. But I didn't I wasn't quite goo[…]
[…].I wanted to...and er...He...he was gonna get married. He was going to Ireland to get married, and he was going off to some...outlandish place in the world, and...I couldn't get a work permit or something, so I...I missed the opportunity of working with him. But I...I only did a few inserts, that's […]
[…]your dad in the forces?No, he wasn’t, he was too old. My parents were quite old actually, you know, they had me late. My father was in the First World War, in the cavalry. Along with I think four or five other brothers, of whom one was injured and was never quite the same again, but the others […]
[…]e crowds were either coming in or going out of Chelsea football and we got stuck on that bridge, Stamford Bridge and couldn't move. And I thought the world is about to explode and I can't stop it because I'm stuck with these silly people. However, we eventually got up there and Jane, my wife, becaus[…]
[…]us into Sundays as well, you'd expect to finish around about five o'clock tea time on a Sunday, somebody would create something which was out of this world for, quote, wine and cocktail of Amy Johnson or something like that fly in Atlantic  or landing. And very often you wouldn't get out until […]
[…]r, and Reg Groves, the journalist who she did things with, was it Documentary Newsletter? I'm a bit vague here... There were two magazines, there was World Film News and Documentary Newsletter, that he was editor of one... anyway, these are half memories. [00:17:43] So this was one year leading[…]
[…]us into Sundays as well, you'd expect to finish around about five o'clock tea time on a Sunday, somebody would create something which was out of this world for, quote, wine and cocktail of Amy Johnson or something like that fly in Atlantic  or landing. And very often you wouldn't get out until […]
[…] Suffolk. My father was a retail chemist. My mother, as was General in those days was a housewife mother. And I have a very early memory of the First World War, because quite clearly, I can remember my father opening the window in the bedroom, in which they slept and I as a baby with the role of a Z[…]
