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Castaway
1 appearance
Actor who performed in pantomime and sang.
On the island
Eight records
This is not the bit of a joke, but this is I won't tell you. But you could guess that it might be. But it's a lovely oh, I I think it's lovely.
I've got Ringo Starr playing Scouse the Mouse and I've been lucky. I mean we've made this record and we've got Barbara Dixon as well and Adam Faith. But this number I thought I'll take with me in my castaway ship is Ringo singing the theme song...
Messa da Requiem: Dies IraeFavourite
Vienna State Opera Chorus and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Georg Solti
Oh well, this is in case I don't escape. I'd like to play the Ds E Re from the Verde Requiem Mass.
In conversation
Presenter asks
4:05When did you make up your mind that you wanted to work in the theatre?
About seven years old uh I uh I used to go and and stand up in these musical festivals in places like Cleethorpe's and Scunthorpe and uh Sheffield. I know won prizes, silver medals and things like that and uh I thought uh this must be the life really. You stand up here, nobody interrupts you and I decided from that moment on that it was the only way to live.
Presenter asks
4:54Did you go to drama school straight away when you left [school]?
I I didn't go to dram school at all, uh actually. Well, I went to uh ... kind of a drama school in Battley in Yorkshire. ... But I didn't didn't ever go to anywhere like the Royal Academy or any you know, I couldn't get in actually.
Presenter asks
6:15What was your first job in the theatre?
I went to uh a repertoire company in uh in the Channel Islands. I I wrote to them and I got a job and uh thirty shillings a week. ... Playhouse Theatre, Jersey, that I mean it it was run by Lawrence Naismith actually. An actor called Lawrence Naismith.
The keepsakes
Presenter asks
7:57How many missions did you fly [in the RAF]?
Nineteen, I think.
Presenter asks
25:33Could you endure loneliness, do you think?
Yes, I I quite like to be alone. I certainly wouldn't want to be alone for the rest of my life and I hope do do people on your island usually get rescued?
“I decided from that moment on that it was the only way to live.”
“I haven't been selective enough, but I I can't bear not to work all the time.”
“I'm the sort of man who has spent his whole life passing the screwdriver and the hammer to other people.”