[…]ling. And so basically, yeah, so we were very much a Collins house without me at that stage, knowing the full history of the Collins de Valera thing, etc, RL: 6:24 But you were raised with the stories of the IRA and the Civil War. GM:  6:28 And yeah, all of that,[…]
[…]n after that I remember running home and telling my mother that I had just heard that Lord Kitchener was dead. He had been killed in the Baltic etc. and my mother nearly threw a fit, you know, Kitchener meant a great deal to them and so on. And still to this very day I remember saying ‘L[…]
[…]e it. He possesses also no small amount of savoir-faire and can make himself charming and companionable without ever going too far presuming too much etc.’ and there's a bit about football.‘So far I seem to have been singing his praises unreservedly’ this is the bit the BBC would like to hear, ‘but […]
[…] before by you - but I mean it was near the change when documentaries were structured because they had to be, because of the equipment, and lighting, etc, etc, to the more newsreely, or vérité type of films when you interposed much less between camera and subject. So we shot this thing, and I cut it[…]
[…]diving, really. We were lucky enough to go on holiday in the Mediterranean when I was only about 10 or 11, and so a chance to snortle in warm waters, etc. And so I got into diving when or scuba snorkelling, then scuba diving when I was at school. And I also got into biology. It's funny, but biology […]
[…]eras were very expensive then, as they are now, so I wouldn't say it was a hobby that I had but I was interested in photography, playing with cameras etc but still had that inkling to work in television somehow, somewhere along the line in many years to come. I: And Twentieth Century Movies, di[…]
