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Castaway
1 appearance
Actor
On the island
Eight records
My Very Good Friend the Milkman
It's original talent and it's humorous. Now, I suppose in a f curious sort of way it's exactly the sort of thing that's always been said about uh Joanna's and my relationship. We're always being advised to marry. Which It's exactly the the advice that Fats Waller is being given in this song.
Robert Donat speaking that lovely ballad of Keats, La Belle Dame Sans Merci.
Because I adore Noel Coward uh and the song, but I wouldn't be without him around one. Great genius.
Der Rosenkavalier: Act III Duet
Maria Olszewska and Elisabeth Schumann
from the end of uh Act Three of Darrows and Cavalier, that wonderful duet.
Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111
playing the last piano sonata of Beethoven, opus a hundred and eleven in C minor. And uh he's playing a little bit from right at the end of the last movement.
Speech to the Boys of Harrow School (October 1941)
Making a speech In nineteen forty one to the Boys of Harrow School. of which he was a no-boy. and I remember him having very fortunately been to Harrah myself, I remember him coming down Later on. and listening to school songs. He was always very moved by hearing them, I believe. Floods of tears.
Jesu, Joy of Man's DesiringFavourite
playing the piano transcription of Bach's theme, Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring.
In conversation
Presenter asks
2:53You turned down a test for a film part when you were very young indeed. How old were you?
I must have been about ten years old. And my brother William was about eight. He he took the part. … He took it from me, yes. He he uh had more sense of humour, I think vastly more sense of humour.
Presenter asks
3:34You turned down a chance like that [to play Mrs Miniver's son]. Why was that?
I felt that it was appearing before the public, and I couldn't bear the idea of appearing uh naked, as it were, before the public.
Presenter asks
4:49Whose idea was it to give that up, Marks and Spencer's or you?
Marks and Spencer's. Quite rightly. They didn't wish to court a a subversive.
Presenter asks
11:28Were you feeling rather left behind [when your brother James Fox was doing so well in films]?
The keepsakes
The book
Sword of Honour (Men at Arms, Officers and Gentlemen, Unconditional Surrender)
Evelyn Waugh
I would choose Evelyn War's trilogy: Officers and Gentlemen, Men-at-Arms, Unconditional Surrender, if I'm allowed to.
The luxury
Limes by Floris toilet water (two cases)
I would take a a large bottle of toilet water called Limes by Floris.
No, I didn't uh I didn't feel left behind. James and I were sharing a flat in Maribourn at the time that the servant opened. And I remember being delighted that he had this wonderful break in films … and I was very out of work at the time. and we were doing a production of Hamlet. which we'd been rehearsing for five months by then. and we were eventually going to do three performances of it. And I d I th that to me was fun. Mm-hmm. That was more important really than than a film.
Presenter asks
18:57In your television series Edward and Mrs. Simpson, you played the part of the Duke of Windsor. That must have been a rather daunting assignment.
If I thought about it now, I would be daunted, I must say, but I never really thought about it. I I thought, my goodness, this'll make a marvellous Story. Yes. And part within a story.
Presenter asks
23:27You could adapt yourself to solitude, you think?
Easily.
“I felt that it was appearing before the public, and I couldn't bear the idea of appearing uh naked, as it were, before the public.”
“I always knew that uh working in those sort of ways was the important thing.”
“I'm quite good at uh liking what is given me.”