[…]amp room. Alan Falconer was Shop Steward, and he called in Bessie Bond and after lots of discussion it was agreed that we should be paid bathing time etc. Bessie went in to negotiate with Donald and they worked out an Underground Agreement. And we won. We even got a laundry allowance. You weren't gi[…]
[…]s normal private’s way of life, guarding the beaches at Northumberlandand the countryside at Burford, and marching up and down, 30 mileroute marches, etc.After 15 months I saw another newspaper article, not a newspaperarticles, a small item of news that David MacDonald who had directed twoof the fil[…]
[…]nbsp;21:02  they didn't actually throw tomatoes. What they did do was the kids, anyway, would jump up and down on the seats and run around, etc, etc, and bang things to making a noise, which I think most kids did in cinemas in those days. I Speaker 1  21:19  think […]
[…]ut. So there's only one thing to do. The CEO had me before him and offered me a photographic course. He said Obviously if you are interested in films etc. I realised this. He was very good. But he said we can't go on this way. I said no we can't. And he said I could best I can do in the airforce off[…]
[…] went back to Rediffusion. He became the Head of Features and, of course, eventually the Director of Programmes and so on, and on to Channel 4, etc. But no doubt the year at the BBC was not a happy one, for him or for the BBC.   Political programmes grew, I suppose, Galle[…]
[…]e war. Then we got this house and I asked Vincent, I said 'For sentimental reasons I would like a Vincent Korda in my house and he gave me four set sketches, there are two there and there is one hanging up in the hall and there is a fourth one. So we have got four Vincent Korda's here. Vincent was a[…]
