Tuning in…
Tuning in…
Castaway
1 appearance
Actor.
On the island
Eight records
André Previn and the London Symphony Orchestra
I had just been given the Rhapsody in Blue conducted by him, and I thought, and I told him so, that for the first time in my life I had really heard it as it should be.
I don't know where this girl came from, but when I first heard it or met her, but Dubisi la fio cheveux de l'ang drove me mad. I loved it so much.
Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major, BWV 1050
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Herbert von Karajan
I find in them a great deal of joy, pure, liquid joy.
A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
For me might be summed up in that very beautiful song A Nightingale Sang in Barclay Square.
London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Adrian Boult
I conducted was an actor's impersonation of a conductor. But if you know where the various parts of the orchestra come in and out, it can be very impressive
Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98: III. Allegro giocoso
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Herbert von Karajan
all at once came up the third movement and I was stung into wakefulness and fell in love with it on the instant.
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Overture
Hallé Orchestra conducted by Sir John Barbirolli
I have always loved Wagner because of the dark, mysterious quality he has, and I've always been into that, perhaps because I was born in the autumn.
Kathryn Grayson and Howard Keel
I always think of her when I hear it. So I would have to take that, wouldn't I? I love her and admire her and ... she's been my splendid spur.
In conversation
Presenter asks
0:37How important to you is music?
Very important, but like many important things I tend to neglect it. It's awful, really, but I do love it desperately.
Presenter asks
3:53Did you go to work in the potteries?
I worked with the British Ceramic Research Institute.
Presenter asks
4:39What pushed you in the right direction [towards the theatre]?
Well, it was a girl whom I met that uh suggested that we should do a drama course.
Presenter asks
6:12Did you cast adrift [from your firm] quite adrift?
Cast adrift, right adrift. I understand that the uh shares went up four point ... When I left.
The keepsakes
The book
Kenneth Grahame
both present me with the only reality that I have in half a century found valid.
The luxury
I'd like to take a Lee Big condenser. ... I could work very happily over many years on a very fine tropic gin or rum.
Presenter asks
7:14What was your first professional job [after drama college]?
Well, the college asked me to play Pierre Gynt, three hours twenty minutes of blank verse. That was a quite a piece. ... I made a tactical error, I think, by accepting the first concrete offer, which was the six-month contract with the Arts Council touring Great Britain
Presenter asks
9:34You recently turned down another season at the Royal Shakespeare [Company]. Is that true?
It isn't that I don't want to go back. ... It's just that in our profession one deals with equations, equations of time. ... to commit to fourteen months of one's life at my age ... seemed a bit much for that sort of uh medium-range stuff.
“It was about survival when I was a child. You couldn't think in terms of something precarious or silly like being a poet or an actor.”
“I firmly believe, empirically, that the whole of mechanics and the physical world is is dedicated to my destruction. I mean if I if I try to put a screw in, it goes through my hand and measurements jump of their own free will, it's I'm hopeless.”
“I think by judicious use of cocoanuts or fruits or roots I could work very happily over many years on a very fine tropic gin or rum.”