Julia Cave, the people researcher and interviewer for the BBC’s The Great War series, in conversation with Kevin Brownlow.

The Great War series (1964) is famous for its exceptional interviews. Julia Cave had been working on What’s My Line? when she was transferred to The Great War: ‘I knew embarrassingly little about the war, but the producer (Tony Essex) did not seem in the least deterred.’ Faced with sacks of mail, in answer to a BBC appeal, she decided to telephone potential interviewees so she could hear them speak, and to invite the most promising to the office (‘a large house in Hammersmith Grove full of cats’). She will tell us about – the remarkable people she met, from Henry Williamson, author of Tarka the Otter, to the man who chased her round her desk with an imaginary bayonet. ‘I was privileged to meet the most honourable, well-mannered, humble and brave individuals across all classes and walks of life that I have ever encountered. May they live forever in our minds.’

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