Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.

And there was a very famous man called Michael Powell, who probably is the greatest director all round, except possibly a couple of men.

Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.

I was absolutely delighted that those shows have been preserved.

Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.

I mean, everyone says Citizen Kane. It isn't that great, anyway. And Orson Welles I knew well, of course. He made other incredible films that no one would let him make, which were much better than Citizen Kane, really.

The radio even weren't allowed to say there was a Holocaust and people were being killed right, left and center in these terrible camps.