Tuning in…
Tuning in…
Castaway
1 appearance
Character actress with over forty movie credits, known for her extraordinary ear for dialect and dialogue as the busiest voice in the business.
On the island
Eight records
the richness of his voice and the particularity of his vision excites me, and this particular bit that I've chosen ... you're pulled into that world that he creates, with that rich, sonorous ... Amused voice.
Liverpool Cathedral Choir, Massed Choirs from Merseyside and the Liverpool Cathedral Brass Ensemble
that is Jerusalem, which was the anthem that we sang at school, and to me it symbolizes that part of my life, my school, and the English part of me, because I am very English, I've got this funny posh English voice.
Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen (from The Magic Flute)
It's very much to do with my worship of the voice. I just can't believe that any human being can make this noise, and I love listening to it.
Janet Suzman and Oliver Milburn
I love the world he creates, I love the power of the prose. And the characters that he created ... ebullient and just full of life. I think he is just remarkable, and I couldn't be on a desert island without him.
Violet Elizabeth Takes Control (from Just William)
he is a great voice artist. How can I put it? He tugs us in. and we live with him in that world. And it's just an example of voice work at its absolute best.
it's about representation of bits of my life, and I've mentioned many times, probably, that I'm Jewish, and that's very important to me ... I've chosen the colnidre because Being Jewish and The Fine Ethics of the Religion. They do inform my life. and I could never be without them.
Noël Coward and Gertrude Lawrence
This is an example of complete utter excellence and control, and I will never tire of hearing it.
Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667, "Trout" (fourth movement)
Iain Brown and the Nash Ensemble
This was the first piece of music. that I ever listened to with my partner. She made me sit down and listen to it. So it's all about her and me.
In conversation
Presenter asks
1:11Are you just a girl who can't say no to work?
It never seems to me that I have the career that I want, but I think all actors say that. I'm not I'm not happy with with what I've given to the world ... I think I'm underused and undervalued and and perhaps slightly despised ... I wanted more out of my skills. I wanted to do Shakespeare, I wanted to be at the National, I wanted to to be admired as an actress, and I think at the moment I'm just kind of smiled at as an actress, and I want to touch people, and I want to ... hurt and astonish, I think, and I haven't done that yet
Presenter asks
9:21Were you a funny school girl?
I think I was. I think I was amusing. I was the form wag, and people laughed at me, and I realized that laughter was like love ... I desperately want to be liked. I'll do almost anything to be liked.
Presenter asks
14:58Did you feel included when you went to Cambridge, or did you feel something of an outsider?
No, I always felt that Cambridge belonged to me. Me personally. It was my Cambridge. It was a thrilling time.
The keepsakes
The book
Not recorded.
The luxury
Presenter asks
25:55When did you begin to look your sexuality in the eye?
I suppose I really came to terms with things in nineteen sixty seven ... I was in my late twenties, so it was a bit late for that sort of thing. And I know when I told my mother that I had had an affair with a woman She had a stroke about three days later. And um ... that's uh pretty shocking. for me to have to deal with.
Presenter asks
28:22Do you regret that you told your mother [about your sexuality]?
Yes, I do. because it caused the person that I loved most in the world a pain she could not bear. And I have to take the responsibility for that. I didn't do it to hurt her. I did it because we always spoke everything to each other ... But I I should have been aware that that was something I could not say, and I really do regret it.
Presenter asks
30:41What is [your outrageousness] all about?
It's part of wanting to shock, I suppose, and also I like to confront the things that other people don't seem prepared to ... And the way I reassure myself is to say something shocking, because I suppose for a moment it gives me back the power, because I'm in charge. And I I'm a control freak, that's probably it.
“I want to hurt and astonish, I think, and I haven't done that yet, but maybe I will.”
“I realized that laughter was like love. And I can't get enough of it.”
“I'm a a frightened little muffin, actually, and all this big talk and swaggering about is just to cover up. A real terror, I think.”
“I realize that telling people things that they can't deal with is an indulgence, and so I advise people who may be in the same position as me and find that they are homosexual. that they should just keep it to themselves.”