[…] Thompson) and for the Ministry of Information throughout the Second World War. In the post war period Halas and Batchelor […]
[…] buttons, the belts, the fabrics everything was there, the feathers, the whole lot, the pleaters and now they’re all scattered all the way around the world. But now of course people in the wardrobe have an organiser, you know, somebody sitting a desk with the computer all the time ordering stuff. It[…]
[…]asically, I thought, I could do with a little more control over my life. So I resigned. I took the redundancy package and went off into the big, wide world! But I still missed it which is why, oh, months later, I was asked to do some work for STV as a freelance, I jumped at it gladly. The money wasn[…]
[…]de unions. But there again, there are people out there trying to reinvent the wheel, we get lots of stuff about the so called gig economy. It's not a world that I like, I think it's more about exploitation and employers trying to pass the risk on to their workers. But you've got a lot of people out […]
[…] of view, they were only trying to keep up standards. And when you realise that the BBC were probably the only broadcasting organisation in the world… this is where I come out as very pro-BBC and defend them against all the things that people generally knock… I’ll bet there w[…]
[…] theatre at that time? DM: I can’t remember his name. It’ll come back. It had a wonderful long bar. And you could have anything you liked in the world to drink. And you met everybody who was up at Cambridge and who came back... it was very chic. SC: Very enjoyable then? DM: Lovely. I […]