Tuning in…
Tuning in…
Castaway
1 appearance
Political peer and former mayor of Cambridge, known for championing Sunday trading, Falkland sheep mine detectors, and explicit AIDS advertising.
On the island
Eight records
I'll Follow My Secret HeartFavourite
And it takes me back to the last night before I went back to horrible school, when my father would always take me to the theatre and then on to supper afterwards...
Cheek to cheek really sort of embodies all one sort of teenage life. And it's a magical tune, and those Fred Astaire films were wonderful.
Glenn Miller and His Orchestra
And uh one of the things we used to do on night shift was sort of do our party pieces, and I'm ashamed to say that was mine.
I was very lucky. I went at the end of the war to France... Paris in nineteen forty six was very special...
Very, very sort of nostalgic for me because I spent a wonderful two years in New York working in an advertising agency... I also met my husband there.
Choir of King's College, Cambridge
I suppose the happiest time of my life, really, my years in Cambridge.
Partly my husband tried to educate me musically... and we had many happy evenings... Traviata is always the background for our bridge games.
Volare (Nel blu, dipinto di blu)
happy memories in Italy, the sunshine, the wine. And Evenings Under the Stars.
In conversation
Presenter asks
2:56Are there any attractions for you in being marooned on a desert island?
Ghastly. I really can't think of anything worse. I'm very lazy by nature, and I've always managed to find people somehow or other... so it'd be quite interesting to find that if I could exist.
Presenter asks
6:56How poor were you? Did you still keep the nannies and servants?
Yeah. It's rather like the boy at Eton who he said My family are very, very poor. Our butler is even poorer. Um it was slightly like that.
Presenter asks
15:09How is it that, born of a staunchly Liberal family, you became a Tory?
Ah, because I had Tory friends... and I learnt quite a few tricks of the trade.
Presenter asks
16:29Did you ever try to stand as an MP?
Oh, a long time after, twice, once in Cambridge and once in Ely. Disaster, not ready for me.
The keepsakes
The book
Kenneth Rose
I think it's a marvellously written book. It's got humour as well as all the facts of the time ... I'd like to re-read it and digest it.
The luxury
I'd like the crown jewels, because somebody would come and look for me if I had them, and they are so exquisitely beautiful.
Presenter asks
20:37Does it annoy you that people portray you as one big giggle?
Yes, it does. Um it does and it doesn't. Um you know, if you want to get a message over to people, a serious message. There's it's no bad thing. To make people laugh if you possibly can... it's perhaps not a bad ploy, but it's my way of doing things.
Presenter asks
26:40How will you amuse yourself on the desert island?
I've been worrying about that quite a lot, because if you've read what my interests are. Um Bridge, racing, antiques and needle point. Not a lot of them on the unique collection of shells... I do hope the island isn't full of creepy crawleys, because I absolutely loathe them...
“Ghastly. I really can't think of anything worse. I'm very lazy by nature, and I've always managed to find people somehow or other.”
“I've never even taken a driving test.”
“I said because of selection committees like you and stormed out.”
“I'm the female equivalent of Lester Piggard. I'm the oldest member of the government.”
“I'd like the crown jewels, because uh somebody would come and look for me if I had them, and they are so exquisitely beautiful.”