Tuning in…
Tuning in…
Castaway
1 appearance
Actress.
On the island
Eight records
Oh, because it's romantic, I suppose, in a way, and I never get tired of it, and it's very moving. I find it very moving, I like that.
Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61Favourite
Pinchas Zukerman, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim
Beethoven's Violin Concerto, which is wonderful, yes. Favorite.
Original Broadway Cast of A Chorus Line
I think on a desert island one has to have something that one can dance to that is not at all deep in any way, and I think this might be it.
At the moment I have a thing about the oboe. I find it very it's sentimental in a way, but it's very pure and I love it at the moment.
I feel like well, it's the guitar and I think one has to have a bit of guitar'cause I do love guitar.
I Musici, Maria Teresa Garatti
Well, this this is something that I I m think is if you're breaking your heart, this is the thing pleasant to,'cause it is so incredibly moving to me anyway.
sentimental beyond belief, because it's from a record that my husband bought me before in fact we were married, and and so I would have to have that with me, I think.
In conversation
Presenter asks
0:31Are you musically inclined?
What a leading question. I don't know. I love music.
Presenter asks
1:01What was your plan for choosing your eight [discs]?
Well, that my plan was simply to go through the records that I have and to take the records that I play most often. ... Not necessarily the greatest things in the world, but the things that I I would put on of an evening.
Presenter asks
3:16How big a company did [your parents] have?
Well, it varied. It started off with six, I believe, um, when I was nine months old, and it then went up to thirteen usually it was about ten but it came and went depending on the people who who went home and who was hired and who was ill and so forth.
Presenter asks
4:04What about your schooling?
Oh Well, I went to I I've tried to count them, and I keep I'm sure I keep forgetting one or two. There were about eight different convent schools Loretta convents, dotted all over India more than eight, and I went to eight. I used to go in rotation as we toured round. ... I used to go for a week, or a month, or two months, or whatever it happened to be
The keepsakes
The luxury
Presenter asks
7:07What was your first major role?
Macduff's son in Macbeth. ... I was nine. And I didn't want to do it at all. ... My queue came and I was filled and I never forget it with such a panic ... So I ran ... and as I got to the door my father dressed up as Macbeth ... got hold of me. literally by the scruff of my neck, and threw me on the stage.
Presenter asks
23:12Would you try to escape [from the island]?
I don't think I would, because I would be too afeard. Either be eaten by a shark or if I fell off my raft, or I would be devoured in the jungle if I went inland. No, I don't think I would. I think I would stay where I was, make a camp, and hope.
“We never had a home or a base of any kind at all. I mean, we we were on tour literally year in and year out.”
“I came back to England in nineteen sixty five. I hadn't been back for twelve years, I think it was then, and I thought, Well, what I'll do is see if I can get any work and I did in fact found it tremendously difficult for a good year and a half because they said everyone said, Well, what have you done? What training have you done? Where have you come from?”
“I don't really want to encourage him. I mean, these things just have happened, but certainly not. I'm not going to send him out to work. I don't want him to be an actor at all, if I can help it.”