Tuning in…
Tuning in…
Castaway
1 appearance
Actress who was a ballet dancer and made her first stage appearance at a few days old.
On the island
Eight records
She is African, where I was born, and she's singing about the land that I love, which is Africa, and animals and and the earth.
Russian Metropolitan Church Choir
I had this record many uh years ago, and it disappeared because I traveled so much, but it's never gone out of my mind. … I think it's it's very powerful for me because I think it does remind one of The Almighty Power. And as I can't understand Russian, I can still get the feeling of what is being sung. But it has a marvellous, marvellous quality.
La Boutique Fantasque (excerpt)
London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ernest Ansermet
Gioachino Rossini (arr. Respighi)
which reminds me of my dancing days.
The Sun Whose Rays Are All Ablaze (from The Mikado)
I love Gilbert and Sullivan. And The Sun Whose Rays. I think it's one of the most beautiful things he They wrote.
Edith Piaf and Les Compagnons de la Chanson
who I adored. And still do?
I chose um this record because I think it's got a most marvellous beat. And I think I'd feel like doing my exercises and my modern dance all by myself there, and I think this would be a good one to do it too. I I think it might lift up the Heart if one was feeling a bit depressed.
I don't think I could go there without taking um my song Send in the Clowns. … it was written for me.
Finlandia (closing passage)Favourite
Halle Orchestra conducted by Sir John Barbirolli
This is where they come to rescue me, you see, and you can hear everything blasting out, and it's just one of my most favorite records in the world.
In conversation
Presenter asks
0:35How well could you endure loneliness on this island?
I think very well. Of course, until one actually is in that position, one wouldn't really know.
Presenter asks
0:53Is music important in your life?
It's I would say essential for my health and happiness.
Presenter asks
5:02Did you take it for granted that you were going into the theatre, apart from the fact that you were taught dancing?
I I was mainly concentrating on the dancing, that was my be all and end all, that combined with music. I didn't think really of being an actress.
Presenter asks
9:17What was that first film you made for Korda when you were twelve?
South Riding. And Ralph Richardson played my father. Edna Best it was one of her last films. And Ann Todd played my mother in flashback because she always swears she's going to knife me if I say she played my my mother and don't explain that it was done in flashback.
The keepsakes
The book
It's a tie, really. Between Science and Health by Betty Bakerty But as you have the Bible there, I feel that um I would take the I Ching.
The luxury
I don't think art is a luxury, you see. I think art is a necessity. But all right. Michelangelo's David.
Presenter asks
14:32Did you Americanize yourself, or did you play with that lovely molasses and honey English voice which you naturally have?
I don't think I have a typically English voice. I've played quite a few American Roles In America and j just softened the A's a little bit and I get away with it. And I f I find it very easy to um to s to do slight American. Accents,'cause you must remember. My father is Welsh.
“I think that if I was alone, and I know that when I am alone, relatively speaking, here, I will choose something that will get me out of a mood I don't want to be in, or into a mood that I want to get into.”
“I was very deep into Christian science and and I had got rid of my fear of death uh and um pain and things like that temporally anyway.”
“I turned the play down twice because of the speech on Heraldry, because I was scared of it. And then I decided that I would do it. Because I was scared of it. And funnily enough, it was the only section of the play that I didn't have stage fright.”
“I don't think art is a luxury, you see. I think art is a necessity.”