Tuning in…
Tuning in…
Castaway
1 appearance
Comedian and actress, known for her humour and character work.
On the island
Eight records
Because I think that at some time I might need a great deal of energy on the island to get up and if it was hot I don't know if it'd be hot but if it was hot to go and collect some sticks to build something or really to go and do something practical.
Well, I would feel I think perhaps romantic on the island sometimes
This is Jake Thackeray, who I absolutely love, and I'd like to hear him sing one of my favourite songs
Dance in the Old Fashioned Way
Well, um, I think we we need a bit of slush now. And as I'm I am rather old fashioned
The Speech of a Tyrolean Landlord
Now, you know I love the human voice. And this is Gerard Hofnung at the Oxford Union.
Let the Bright SeraphimFavourite
I used to s go to school with her daughter. ... And she just is a lovely, lovely person.
Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85
Well, I'd like to hear as I love the human voice, I think the the sound I like next best is the sound of the cello
Well, as I've got nine cats ... I have to have something from Cats.
In conversation
Presenter asks
0:41How well do you think you could adjust yourself to loneliness?
Oh, I think quite well. Really quite well, because I get n at the moment what I call people poisoning. But I mean, that's because I just sometimes see too many people. And I do find my own house in the country ... a sort of perfect retreat.
Presenter asks
2:50Were you taken to the theatre as a child?
When I was four I learnt dancing. And I was in dancing displays, and I said, Oh, that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to be on the stage, you know. As early as I was four, yes.
Presenter asks
3:20Did you shine at school? Were you good?
No. My brother was brilliant. I was always dragging behind a little. I was very good at creative things, you see. But couldn't do maths could do languages standing on my head from sound, you see. ... Because my ear has stood me in good stead ... for voices and dialects and things.
Presenter asks
The keepsakes
The book
Kathleen Winsor
I think I would take forever amber. That's a nice long read. ... Well, it's a long read, and it's also a period piece which I seem to be in at the moment. And I would be very interested in all those eighteenth century goings-on.
The luxury
a garment made of absolutely pure silk
I think I'd like some garment made of absolutely pure silk. That I could just float about in when I wanted. Swan around the beach.
How did [your first legitimate play, The Killing of Sister George] happen?
Well, as I said, I'd waited for eight years to to f all the people I worked for in review said, Oh, darling, you must do a play, but they never found a play for darling. and eventually Michael Codron, who I'd never worked for. Sent me to see entertaining mister Sloane. ... Joe Orton's play. ... I rang him up the next day. I thought I thought it was absolutely marvellous. He said, Well, in that case, I've got something that I want you to read, called The Killing of Sister George.
Presenter asks
24:50Are you a nervous person?
Well, I'm I'm nervous in the theatre to begin with. I'm very afraid of, I think, forgetting words.
Presenter asks
24:55Are you a quick study? Can you learn easily?
I'm absolutely hopeless. I have dyslexia, you see. Yes, and uh I perhaps have to work about twenty times harder than anybody else does. ... You see, I not only are the words in the wrong order to me, But they they're words that aren't there. Yes. I see a lot of scribble, really. So it really is a chore for you. Oh, it's an absolute chore. I have to un scramble the words.
“A comic's labourer i first of all you learn timing from the comic, because if you do it wrong they get very angry. So when you become a comic performer yourself, that's inbuilt.”
“I have to decide how the lady is going to walk. And if I can get that set in my head, then the character's almost there.”
“I have dyslexia, you see. Yes, and uh I perhaps have to work about twenty times harder than anybody else does.”