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Castaway
1 appearance
Writer and comedian best known for creating and starring in the BBC sitcom 'Absolutely Fabulous'.
On the island
Eight records
I think I'd like to take it only because every time I hear it it's a very happy song and it's a very upbeat song. And I think if there's one thing I would require, it's it's something to make me stand up and move.
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and State Opera Chorus, conducted by István Kertész
I think I'd like to take one kind of majorly sad thing. For the time when you just think, Oh, there isn't a boat coming and you can just put it on and imagine that you might be about to die.
I Didn't Have the Nerve to Say NoFavourite
It's from a a period when, you know, London just felt great and uh We were you were kind of young and you just didn't care. You had nothing to care about, no property, no nothing, didn't care.
I adore Janice Joplin and I think there could be n no more perfect situation than being completely alone so I could do my Janice Joplin impression on a rock looking out to sea.
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conducted by Bernard Haitink
I must say I'm not a I'm not a fan of Parceful the whole of Parcel. I kind of I kind of cut off when the singing starts and the big people come on.
I sort of came to Joni Mitchell late. I think I was put off initially. She just looked like a kind of skinny sixth former with a guitar, which is a sort of nightmare. And now I listen to her an awful lot.
One of my favourite um singers of all time is Elvis Costello, and I've listened to him right from, you know, when I was at college up until now, and uh I think he's just terrific.
I have a great love for country music or a lot of country music um a lot of old-fashioned country music generally. I actually met Emily Harrison, so I was completely starstruck.
In conversation
Presenter asks
2:26Why do you think people get hooked on these two women [Edina and Patsy]?
it's kind of wish fulfilment. I think people would like to live like that and I think We're quite strict on ourselves nowadays and what we allow ourselves to do and what we're told we should be doing, you know. How many units of alcohol, how many units of fat we're allowed to consume, and all this stuff. And I think people would actually kind of have more pleasure if they lived [m]ore like Adino Patsy.
Presenter asks
2:56How much of Jennifer Saunders there is in Edina?
In a way, I suppose she is. I mean, she's. She didn't start out that way, but I've I think um the more I had to write, the more I used um um my own experience and minor neurosis. So More my mouthpiece in a way.
Presenter asks
6:14Were you and Dawn immediately attracted to each other?
Eventually attracting, yes. I mean, I think it it was repelling at first. She was very um I don't see. Bubbly is completely the wrong word. but very outgoing. And very um sort of organized and popular probably and and I think I was probably considered a bit laid back or sullen or, you know. And and at first I think there was not antagonism, but I think there was definitely was was no meeting of the minds then.
The keepsakes
The luxury
Presenter asks
7:43At what point did you think there was something more than just making your mates laugh?
That was probably about ten years into our career, I think. But seriously, so you know, seriously, I don't think we have a I think there was probably a moment about six years in. When you suddenly stop and you go, This is now what I probably am going to do for the rest of my life, or this is how I'm going to earn my living.
Presenter asks
25:00How much do you fear the critics?
I mean, I don't like bad criticism, you know, it I find it quite um quite hard to take and it makes me very cross. Not fear of it, it's the anger that's, um It makes you feel if you've had a a bad review or or something. A non-constructively bad review. The next thing you write you're writing out of a feeling that you want to get back at them and show them you can do it and all the rest of it.
“I think that children force you to p to to organize your life and uh and sort yourself out a bit really.”
“I was very happy in my head, I have to say, so I think I lived a lot in You know, in my head.”
“I've been doing is trying to find the funny possibilities in something and The funny possibilities in being very serious are Not great.”