Roy Lockett

[…]e all next to that really. WaddonInfants, WaddonJuniors. Although I started, I was evacuated in the war so I started school in Doncaster in Yorkshire, mm, but then I came back and I was at WaddonInfants which was a kind of a stone’s throw from where I lived, then WaddonJuniors. T[…]

Carol Owens

[…] in London BBC and also a Trainee Assistant Editor. I did an interview in Manchester for BBC Manchester as an Assistant Editor. And I think I went to Yorkshire TV or Granada or is it, not sure which which was which at the time, but I was accepted on to the London Trainee Assistant Film Editor course[…]

John Schlesinger

[…]make him into the star we all hoped. And we had an unknown called Lisa Eichhorn who was in fact American, but she managed to put on such a convincing Yorkshire accent and I remember, I've always been rather fussy about faces and she had some very badly capped teeth and when we did the first test wit[…]

Bernard Ponsonby

[…]old and Gus Macdonald had bid £2,000 because the bid had to be in multiples of two and other companies where it was known there would be a challenge, Yorkshire most famously had to bid thirty-six million pounds a year for its licence and, of course, if you're paying that to the Treasurer, you can't […]

Karel Reisz

[…]chardson and in competition against - Norman Swallow: 33.00 David Storey. It was a Storey novel, another Yorkshire writer. Karel Reisz:33.04Correct. Saturday Night wasn't Yorkshire, it was set in Nottingham, the Midlands. Norman S[…]

50 Years of British TV Documentaries

[…] Action’ (Granada) ‘Survival’ (Anglia) ‘This Week’ (Thames) ‘First Tuesday’ ( Yorkshire TV) have disappeared. In 1982 Channel four was launched to […]

Jim Whittell

[…]    JIM WHITTELL:  No question, I am third generation cinema operator.  My grandfather bought a cinema in Dinnington in West Yorkshire called The Palace, still there, chemist shop now.  And ran that for several years using his family, two daughters and a son, as the pro[…]
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