Tuning in…
Tuning in…
Castaway
1 appearance
English film actress who began her career in the 1960s.
On the island
Eight records
Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73 ('Emperor')Favourite
Vladimir Ashkenazy with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Georg Solti
the first classical record that I listened to when I was young. My mother adored it and we used to listen to it all the time.
I grew up in the sixties. I was beginning my film career when The Beatles were starting ... And the record that I choose here, this Sgt. Pepper album, I think is the best. It's I guess it's the poetry of youth, as far as I can see.
The London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Pierre Monteux
I've always loved ballet. I studied ballet as a child and I could, I think, have happy times dancing around the desert island to the very beautiful music of Tchaikovsky.
who I listened to. I was from the age of fifteen, and found all my first boyfriends and my first parties had Elvis in the background. I think he's just fabulous.
The opening title music of Two Thousand One Space Odyssey. This film I think had an enormous impact on the young people and older people alike. A powerful, powerful film, and the music is as powerful as the visual.
Julie Covington and the London Cast of Godspell
which originated in England and became an enormous success and I adored it. It seemed that it had a fresh new look at religion. It made Jesus Christ appear as one of us, a young man, a young good man, who was trying to make other people feel the way he did. And I think the music is extraordinary.
Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön (from The Magic Flute)
this is special to me, not only because it's a very lovely piece of music. But um in the Night Porter, which we mentioned before, we did a small version of this opera.
This is somebody who has very recently come into the music business ... And I feel he has a very strong talent. He has not only a beautiful voice, but the arrangements behind his music evoke a feeling of classical and pop, and I guess this is what I like most about pop music, if the two can be incorporated.
In conversation
Presenter asks
4:42Was it very unsettling going to a number of schools being shunted around Europe like that?
It was unsettling, really, because I couldn't keep friends very long because I would make friends and then have to leave them. They would remain in the same place.
Presenter asks
5:05Did you have any ideas then on what you wanted to be?
I had vague ideas I was attracted towards acting through amateur dramatics because I felt when I was on the stage that I was truly relating to people. I was perhaps rather introverted as a child. And ... this, to me, was a marvellous form of communication to people. It was like a distant communication, but I know I felt what I could do to people. I could make them laugh and happy and cry and enjoy me.
Presenter asks
6:12It's said that you left the cinema in tears when they showed you that film [Rotten to the Core].
Yes, I did. I've never done it again, but I did then. It was, I guess, just the shock, the embarrassment of revealing myself to such an extent. Because uh as I said before, I didn't like to reveal myself, but it was I guess the greatest challenge to me that I just did ... the best I could, and it seemed to work.
The keepsakes
The book
Frank Herbert
I think the book would be Dune by Frank Herbert. It's basically a science fiction book, but it takes man's mind and projects it in for a very, very far into the into the future. And I think on a desert island that would give me enormous ideas.
The luxury
A painting by Degas (ballet picture)
A luxury I think would be a painting, one of the very beautiful ballet pictures by Degas.
Presenter asks
10:41Did that year [of sabbatical following your sister's death] produce a lasting and permanent change in your personality?
Yes, because I think there are a lot of ways out of that particular situation through a psychiatrist or through um tranquilizing drugs, sleeping pills, but I was determined or drink, I was determined to do it myself. without any assistance except my My own self.
Presenter asks
18:45Are you a practical person, Charlotte?
I could be. ... I mean looking after the house, looking after my children, but say we're talking about a desert island. Yes, I could cook for myself. I think I'm a survivor, so I don't think I'd have any problem.
“I had vague ideas I was attracted towards acting through amateur dramatics because I felt when I was on the stage that I was truly relating to people. I was perhaps rather introverted as a child.”
“I was determined to do it myself. without any assistance except my My own self.”
“I think I'm a survivor, so I don't think I'd have any problem.”