Tuning in…
Tuning in…
Castaway
1 appearance
Clown known for playing many instruments and pantomime performances.
On the island
Eight records
Darling, Je Vous Aime BeaucoupFavourite
I know she would love me to play a tune that she loved uh Darling, Jebusembuku.
And I would imagine myself like the fellow there singing, and all the crowd answering back to me.
The Nuns' Chorus from Casanova
Because there is an angel voice, beautiful angel voice, and then you got all the cows, which should give me such a beautiful feeling.
It would be to hear Geda singing the postillion of Langimot.
is a tune I play and ask the children to jump, clap their hands, stamp their feet, and scream. And that tune is Lily the Pink.
I would like a lovely lullaby something to send me. in dreams and have a good night's sleep. and I would be watching the moon. And I would like to have somebody play for me Moonlight Sonata.
I would like something to crown my achievement on the desert island. ... I think I would stand there, look at the sky, and say thank you and, you know, showing forth what I accomplished. And I think it's only a record for that. is uh two thousand one Space Odyssey.
In conversation
Presenter asks
0:35How many instruments do you play?
Nearly the lot. Only one I don't play. Is the app.
Presenter asks
4:18Where were you born, Charlie?
Because, you know, traveling the artist travels... No, I came too early. I think the journey was too much for my mother. And she had to stop to Italy, near Milan. I was there for about uh three weeks or four weeks. But as my father is a French subject, my mother too. So automatically I was uh a French subject.
Presenter asks
5:11When did you make your first appearance in the ring?
Oh, about I was uh five and a half. Not in the ring, it was, I remember, on the little theater, in the matinee. In those day I used to play uh saxophone, xylophone. I remember my first job when I used to arrive in town is to get an empty orange box because I was so small I couldn't reach the cylophone. And I used to play the drum. and in the same time I used to jot at the stick.
Presenter asks
The keepsakes
The luxury
Can you still remember that first performance the first time you appeared with the family?
Oh, I shall never forget that. My father said one day at the martine, because the it was an empty house. And if I did anything wrong, he wouldn't have murdered. So he said you were gonna appear. So I did. And after the act my father say 'Were you scared?' I said 'No, papa.' 'Weren't you really scared?' 'To see the people. Won't you scare?' I said, No. I shall never forget. He turned around to my mother and he said, We'll never do anything with him. He hasn't got any feeling You see, Roy, I'm blessed. I don't know what his uh stage fright.
Presenter asks
13:22How many years now have you been in that circus?
Yes, uh thirty-seventh season next year.
Presenter asks
13:31Where do you get your ideas?
Um more or less with life, you know, and if I see something funny... We know the public. is the the best the best material you can get because it's so natural. And I get a lot from the children.
“Oh, I shall never forget that. My father said one day at the martine, because the it was an empty house. And if I did anything wrong, he wouldn't have murdered.”
“I used to get a telephone call from the watcher on the roof, and they used to say, Charlie, they coming this way. So my duty was to stop the radio and say, Ladies, they come our way. It's gonna be rough. So if you want to go in the shelter, you go. If you wanna stay, you stay. And I never forgot all of them used to turn I say, Oh, shut up You repeat that every blooming night. Go on, put the radio a bit louder. Eh, come on, let's sing, girls.”
“And when I hear the children, they call me Uncle Charlie now. And the letter receive you be supported the letter receive. GENTLEMAN WITH THE RED NOSE, BLACKPOL. Charlie Caole, England. And I received.”
“I would try to get a book about uh jungle survival instruction, you know, manual.”