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. 2015 Jun 14;1(1):58–70. doi: 10.1016/j.rbms.2015.04.006
MJ: And then the running costs? I mean how were you paid and so on?
NF: We weren’t paid.
MJ: You weren’t paid?
NF: No.
MJ: You did it all voluntarily?
NF: Yes.
MJ: All of you?
NF: All… yes.
MJ: And you as well [to John Webster]?
JW: Promises, but no money … [to NF] I think you used to get a fiver now and again, didn’t you?
NF: Well, that’s what I’m just coming to. When we started doing egg collections without the drugs, without the hormones, it was lunacy. And, anyway, as per usual Saturday morning with Muriel, Sandra and myself, and we finished the magic egg collection, I mean we’d been at it all week, two and three cases a day, but, you know yourself it comes up 11 o’clock at night, 2 o’clock in the morning. We had to be back at work for 8 o’clock in the morning, so we could have finished Kershaw’s at two in the morning and we were back on duty again at eight in the morning. It was lunacy, but we enjoyed it. And this particular Saturday morning Muriel comes up to me and gives me £10. And I said, what’s that for? She said, oh, Father [Steptoe] just given it me for you. I said, what for? She said, the work. I said, there’s no money. She… I said, give it to him back. She said, I can’t give it to him back. I… there’s no money. She said, I can’t give it to him. Take it. For God’s sake, take it. Yes. Right. Okay. So every now and then on a Saturday morning we had £10 (circa £60 at current values).