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Brian Rix. Part 1 of 2

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  • Type

    sound

  • Duration

    00:59:30

  • Shelf mark

    C1142/166; C1142/167

  • Subjects

    Managers

  • Recording date

    2007-04-16

  • Interviewees

    Rix, Brian, 1924- (male)

  • Interviewers

    Harris, Kate, 1981- (speaker, female)

  • Description

    Brian Rix, actor-manager and Chairman of Drama at the Arts Council (1986-1993), on Aldwych farces; the Arts Council; audiences; censorship; John Chapman; Ray Cooney; early television; the English Stage Company; Equity; farce; Festival of Britain; Feydeau; Tony Hilton; holiday pay; Kenneth Horne (playwright); Philip Levene; 'Love in a Mist'; Cecil Madden; Colin Morris; 'One for the Pot'; Michael Pertwee; 'Reluctant Heroes'; 'Six of Rix'; Vernon Sylvaine; Whitehall Theatre; Donald Wolfit.

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Brian Rix. Part 1 of 2

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