Tuning in…
Tuning in…
Castaway
1 appearance
Actress who made her breakthrough in the kitchen sink drama A Taste of Honey, winning BAFTA, Golden Globe, and Cannes Best Actress at age 19.
On the island
Eight records
Well, because I support Liverpool Football Club and it's their anthem, as you know. I know it sounds stupid, but when Liverpool are playing, I can't really watch them.
I love because he was extraordinary. There had never been anyone like him.
Because the school, Heather Lee, that I went to was on Penny Lane.
I don't think this is a song just for lovers. I think it's a song that... when we do say goodbye, we say goodbye to our children... It's the word saying goodbye.
I hadn't ever seen a ballet on stage... I was very lucky to experience that.
Bridge Over Troubled WaterFavourite
We used to play it a lot in Cornwall, Terry and I, and then Aisha, my second daughter, and Dadonna played it, and now Dylan and Willow... it goes through three generations.
Humphrey Littleton, Barry Cryer, Graham Garden, Tim Brooke Taylor and Jeremy Hardy
Because they're just so joyous, and they're naughty but innocent... to be able to laugh.
I went to Kew Gardens... It was night... the sky was so many stars... I sort of felt at one with nature.
In conversation
Presenter asks
17:53You became very close friends with Paul Danqua, who played Jimmy. Was your friendship ever an issue away from the film set?
We were very, very close friends. He was the godfather to my first born Dadonna. … But we would walk around, you know, when we were in in Soho, walking around, and people would shout, Black and white don't mix. And I was so shocked, and Paul would just say, No, it's all right, she's just been on holiday.
Presenter asks
18:37And going back to that original and very unkind advert, it actually called for 'ugly girls' to audition. Now, some journalists were very cruel about your appearance when the film came out. How did you deal with those comments?
I'd look at people and think, Oh, they don't look so bad, they don't look so good either. So you you you I didn't take it personally. You don't think about it. You don't honestly go into the bathroom in the morning and say, Oh, God, you're ugly … You just don't do it.
Presenter asks
23:17What about Oliver Reed? I mean, he was obviously a great spirit, but I would have thought you'd have to bring out your A game to handle him.
The keepsakes
The book
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
It's going to be the Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. And it's got over 18,000 entries in it. And I thought that could keep me going for a long time. It's a wonderful book.
The luxury
a photograph of my beloved family
to take a photograph of my beloved family. But I'd like to protect it in a book of matte cartoons, and I'd like the book to be wrapped in a a mosquito net.
I knew what needed to be done with Oliver. You almost needed to be a teacher. And then he wouldn't pull the tricks that he thought he could pull with other people … I said to him, How dare you? How dare you? … I went right in there. … He respected me for it. … I wouldn't take it. I was not gonna have that nonsense.
Presenter asks
27:08In two thousand five, your daughter Aisha was diagnosed with stage three breast cancer. … You supported her through treatment, but that must have been a devastating time. How did you get through it?
You just do. You it was a shock. You feel like someone's picked you up and thrown you against a wall. … You have to accept what's happening, and Ayesha is the most amazing … She just got on with it. … I would hold a crystal. … you just have to recognize what the situation is.
Presenter asks
30:18It sounds like your faith is an important part of your life. Will that be what sustains you on the island?
Yeah, yes it will. It it sustains me daily, really. So I would take that with me to the island, that's for sure. … It's being spiritual towards people, I think, is the most important. And also being aware. I can't explain it, but it's just something that.
“I don't want to be playing grannies in the corner, just making a cup of tea for people and things. I want something with a bit of spirit.”
“You can't change yourself. This is me at the age I am and the ages that I've been through. And if it doesn't fit, then it doesn't fit. You don't have to beg for things.”
“I think fate is there. There are all the all the stars were in line.”
“You feel like someone's picked you up and thrown you against a wall.”
“I sort of felt at one with nature.”