Tuning in…
Tuning in…
Castaway
1 appearance
Actor and director, two-time Oscar nominee, known for Cracker, Band of Gold, Minority Report, and BAFTA-winning I Am Kirstie and The Unloved
On the island
Eight records
My first one is Burden of Shame by the band GB Forty. This song is a song that I loved as a child and danced to and it reminds me of growing up in Care, really reminds me of Nottingham, running around the flats in Hyson Green, playing with my friends till it was dark.
This is a band called The Charlatans. I just love them and I love this track in particular called Flower. … his music used to take me on a journey. … this song is about little Sam running around Nottingham in her flares, having the time of her life, falling in love with my first boyfriend.
This is a song called The Town I Loved So Well by Luke Kelly from the Dubliners. Growing up I knew that my mum was Polish Irish, but I didn't fully understand the history of our family. … this song appealed to me on so many levels. I get emotional thinking about it.
This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)
It's called This Must Be the Place: Naive Melody by Talking Heads. I'm now nineteen. I'd moved to New York and this song encapsulates meeting my baby's father, Charlie, Esme's dad, meeting Shifra, my best friend, working in New York. … this song means so much to me to do with Darren living in New York. Just hope, yeah, optimism.
Ladies and Gentlemen: We Are Floating in SpaceFavourite
This is Ladies and Gentlemen: We Are Floating in Space by spiritualized Jason Pierce. … I got very sick, I had a stroke, and I went to see him play live after I got better. And this song just makes me think of that time and the love of friendship and his lyrics and and watching him perform is a is very euphoric and and beautiful and very deep.
Eistrezender Naubauten, I think that's how you say it. The song is called Blume, and this is the French version of the song. My husband, who I love very, very much, Harry, he started dating me and he took me to one of their gigs … this song encapsulates a time in my life of of just you know, I was I was in my late twenties, so I didn't know that I could experience love again like that.
the song is called Dream Baby Dream by Suicide. … this song was the song that got me through, if you like, my mother's that kind of allowing myself to move forward from my mother's death. … all of a sudden I was okay.
This song is called I Remember by Molly Drake. … I got sick a while ago. I'm okay now, but I got sick and it was a bit scary again. … this song gives me a lot of hope, but it also is where I'm at now.
In conversation
Presenter asks
2:01How does it feel to inhabit a role? You've described acting as something that comes from your spirit – how does that work in practice?
A bit scary and a bit weird. It's almost like breathing in, and it's there. … I think I have all always been a watcher. So as a kid I used to watch people on the bus, how they smoked the cigarettes, how they moved their head, how they listened, how they got off the bus, on the bus, walk down the street, and I'd think have they just had some news, what's their morning been like?
Presenter asks
5:57You said your mother was your most powerful teacher. Tell me about her.
I always had this thing where people put my mum down. … She is a saint in a way to me.
Presenter asks
11:37What did you know at the time about why you were in care?
They don't tell you why you were literally living with your little black plastic bag with your contents in just getting moved from pillar to post.
The keepsakes
The book
B.K.S. Iyengar
Because I keep falling in and out with yoga. As in I can do it for a few years and I have to stop and then do it again, and I want that to be something I can do and practise for hours and hours and get it right.
The luxury
Presenter asks
23:29How did you turn things around? Was there a moment when you thought you might have made it out?
Yeah, I was living at an independence unit, which is just a stupid term for homeless hostel. … I got the part in peak practice. … I was involved in a situation in the particular home I was at where one girl was bullying other kids and I was fed up at being beaten up. … I snapped. … I am incredibly sorry, but it wasn't just like self-defence. I was angry at the system.
Presenter asks
34:16To what extent can you look back and forgive the adults who should have taken care of you and didn't?
I think I have absolute forgiveness for everybody. But I do not forget that when you become an adult, you are in a position of power, certainly over children. … I just wish certain individuals would put their hands up and say, Yeah, we we were wrong, we could have done better.
Presenter asks
39:47Where does your sense of joy come from, and how do you maintain it?
When I was little, I'd do anything for a laugh. … I get it from my kids, I get it from my husband, I get it just from the world is a beautiful, magical place. … Music is, I say, therapy and joy that's it's everywhere. You just gotta see it. You've gotta be open to it.
“I always had this thing where people put my mum down. … She is a saint in a way to me.”
“I told my mum. … Because it frightened me.”
“Faith and God and love. … I always felt loved.”
“When I was little, I'd do anything for a laugh. … I get it from my kids, I get it from my husband, I get it just from the world is a beautiful, magical place.”