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Castaway
2 appearances
Actress best known for playing Peggy Woolley in The Archers, the only original cast member still in the show.
On the island
Eight records
Let's Face the Music and Dance
the music that brings it back to me most is Fred Astaire. And Let's Face the Music and Dance. It was a rather prophetic lyric.
to remind me of my father. I passed by your window. He used to sing it to me.
I love hearing piano played well. Hence the revolutionary study.
to remind me of one of my very earliest broadcasts about the families who worked the canal boats.
Adagio from Concierto de AranjuezFavourite
to remind me of my bolt hole in Menorca. I'm sitting on the terrace in the sunshine, with the sea lapping the rocks below me.
I'd like to hear dear Old Harry Secombe sing opera.
Overture to The Sleeping Beauty
to remind me of the years when Roger, Roz, and I would go to Germany to see David dance.
I would climb up on to the highest point of the island, and I would shout Hallelujah and that'd cheer me up no end.
In conversation
Presenter asks
1:44Do many people confuse you with Peggy?
I think sometimes they do. Though I don't think we have all that much in common. I love my garden, though I can't do much in it these days and Peggy loves her garden, and of course both had husbands with dementia.
Presenter asks
2:24What are the differences between you and Peggy?
Don't think Peggy's got a sense of humour. And I hope I have. I think funny things sometimes happen to Peggy, but she doesn't see the funny side of things, I'm afraid.
Presenter asks
2:33Do you remember how many episodes you were originally engaged for?
we did a week's trial just to sort of test the water. And that was in uh nineteen fifty, and then we didn't hear any more until January the first. The following year, 1951, and I think we were given a contract for three months.
Presenter asks
6:03Tell me more about your early forays as a comedy entertainer.
The keepsakes
The luxury
wrote funny things to amuse myself. My father knew this... I just enjoyed doing it. I made them laugh, and that's what I like doing.
Presenter asks
12:15What do you know of your mother hankering after a career in the performing arts?
Well, I know my I heard many years later that my mother would have loved to have gone on the stage... But for some reason he did not want me to go on the stage. When I finally um made it into rep, she said, Oh, well, I suppose it was meant and became my sternest critic.
Presenter asks
25:43Can you tell me about Roger's Alzheimer's?
Yes, he began to uh I noticed it about the time of our golden wedding. His memory was playing him false. And it got steadily worse and worse. And the repetitive question started, which I think is almost the most wearying part of it, because they ask you a question and you answer it, and a few moments later they ask you the same question again.
“I think sometimes they do. Though I don't think we have all that much in common.”
“I don't know when I'm beaten, you see. Well, I love acting so much.”
“I made them laugh, and that's what I like doing.”
“He kept on saying, Isn't this lovely? What a lovely lunch... It was such a happy day.”
“When I'm in the studio, I'm Peggy. When I come out, I'm me.”
“I would climb up on to the highest point of the island, and I would shout Hallelujah and that'd cheer me up no end.”