[…] long time. Broke up initially, didn't give it up because they couldn't make enough of money in there, but then always helping out at my uncle's pub, etc. And I just decided, oh, I don't want to go to Dublin, and if I'm going to run away, if I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it properly. An[…]
[…]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 […]
Transcribed by Graeme Hobbs.SIDE ONEThis recording, is vested in the ACTT [Association of Cinematograph and Television Technicians] history project. Jack Gold, film and television director, interviewers, Norman Swallow and Alan Lawson, recorded on the 27th February, 1990, side 1. NS Going […]
[…]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 […]
[…] and I was on the floor and this poor bear was kept all nice and quiet out the back of the scene dock all day. Nice and cosy. Away from all the noise etc. It wasn't there for rehearsals but the poor thing was brought in for the show. I remember, earlier on, I mentioned about the studio being e[…]
