Biographies

More information on the people involved in The Time of their Lives.

 

Jocelyn Cammack

Jocelyn Cammack - Director Jocelyn graduated and worked as a research scientist before taking an MA in Fiction Film Direction at the Northern Film School in 1998... read more...

 

The Mary Feilding Guild

The Mary Feilding Guild was set up in 1857. Lady Mary Feilding became aware of the difficulties facing well-educated, unmarried women who were effectively abandoned by society when they retired from professions like nursing and teaching... read more...

 

Hetty Bower

Not everyone develops their undying love of music sitting under the family’s mahogany dining table during air raids.  Not everyone goes on to become an indefatigable peace campaigner, marching against nuclear weapons, the Iraq wars and Israel’s attacks on Gaza at the age of 103... read more...

 

Alison Selford

Alison Selford was writer and TV critic for the Daily Worker for 12 years before being “cured” - as she puts it - of Communism. She’s written 6 historical novels, is now compiling her late-husband’s biography, and has just mastered a PC... read more...

 

Rose Hacker

For nine decades Rose Hacker was proud to have been born in 1906, the same year as the Labour Party.  For most of her last eleven years, she was distressed by the way their paths had diverged under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown... read more...