Tuning in…
Tuning in…
Castaway
1 appearance
Painter.
On the island
Eight records
The keepsakes
In conversation
Presenter asks
0:57It was suggested at one time that you became a professional pianist, wasn't it?
Yes, it was but father would never hear of that.
Presenter asks
6:53Did you go out to work when you were young?
And then of course when I was fourteen I should have stayed till I was fifteen he said he'd had enough and the war began nineteen fourteen. … he brought me a tweed coat and a very long skirt and I was only fourteen and I wore a man's sort of shirt with a tie and I had to look very grown up and I had a horse to myself called Gertie. … Oh, I was delivering parcels and I went round for orders. … I had some terrible shocks. … I opened the door of this little house shop … and she said, What the? And out came a whole lot of words I'd never heard. … I said, I'm Miss Layfield, and I've come for your order. But she turned out to be extremely nice. She always made me a pot of tea and a chunk of seed cake.
Presenter asks
8:16You married an artist, of course. When and why did you start painting again?
Well, I couldn't get a piano in the cottage in Cartmel, and then I cut my thumb. … I sat on a wall and I thought, well, this won't do. … a voice said paint. But not only the voice said paint, but Laurie said paint too, when I met him in Kendall. … He said, Well, go home and paint your mother.
The luxury
I'd like some soap. Something to put on bites, because I'm always getting bit. Something that kills mosquitoes.
Presenter asks
11:57Tell me about your first exhibition.
Oh, I came down to London for it. … Not my very first. That was held in Upper Mill, and I said, Oh, no, I'm not sending those pictures. Nobody will want to see them. It's all about just us. … They asked me to send them, and they were shown in a little museum, and Lord Rhodes came to it. … I was doing very well. I thought I'd sold them. … He took the stickers off. He said, No. We'll send these to London.
Presenter asks
15:23How do you like to work, Misses Bradley? Do you work regular hours?
Yes, I've got to. … I do work seven days a week.
Presenter asks
23:30If you could take just one disc out of the eight, which would it be?
I was tempted, of course, with Elgar. But I think I would take Eriksata, the one I began with.
“I didn't learn a thing. Why? Because I was let loose. … I had the most time of my life.”
“I sat on a wall and I thought, well, this won't do. … a voice said paint. But not only the voice said paint, but Laurie said paint too, when I met him in Kendall. … He said, Well, go home and paint your mother.”
“I had a beautiful fish slice. It had a lovely slant on it, and I had a lovely little whippy kitchen knife, and I stuck my paint on Tom's paint, and I only had a dinner plate to put it on, and I had just three colours.”
“This is the music of the earth. … It isn't human beings singing and violins and all that. It's worms and ants and the grass growing, and there's all the little tiny beetles.”
“I want a great tome on the law. … Something that will tell me all about the law, how it stands with the copy.”