Tuning in…
Tuning in…
Castaway
1 appearance
Sixties pop singer known for the hit 'Always Something There to Remind Me' who later became a psychotherapist.
On the island
Eight records
Coconut Grove I've chosen because it really sets the scene. I'm so looking forward to being marooned on my desert island. And this song I sang in the late sixties, it's almost as if I knew that I was going to be on this desert island and this was preparing me for it.
Remember (Walking in the Sand)Favourite
Because it's what I will be doing. And also because the Shangri Lars, these were the kind of bands I used to listen to and we had to learn by listening to other people's records. And so I learnt by listening to American girl groups.
Oh, I would have heard this when I was, you know, very, very young, uh, six-ish, and it would be the kind of thing that Auntie Jen would ask me to sing with her.
Um we're gonna do Georgie Fame singing barefoot in.
I love the Caribbean. We got married there. It's a special place for me. And Bob Marley actually represents to me all that is fantastic about the Caribbean.
I think I'd listen to this round a f I would have made a fire and I'll be sitting by the fire. I might even dance round it in the moonlight.
Really silly extract from a musical that I wrote with um Roger Cook today... It's called Bananas and I think it would be totally suitable for an island.
is um Here Comes the Sun. It's such an opening song, isn't it? It's just like just opens your life up, you just really want to smile.
In conversation
Presenter asks
1:48Do the younger performers [at the Arts Clinic] know who you are?
I don't see people when they're together. I see people when they're falling apart and they're so interested in themselves that they don't see me. I'm. Just something there for them to use, and that's perfectly all right for me.
Presenter asks
8:40What did your parents make of that amount of money [you were earning]?
They were very helpful to me. They would look after money, put things away, and so that when I was twenty one and also when I was thirty that I would not ever want for anything ever ever in my life again. So they were kind of trying to be prudent on my behalf. I didn't know.
Presenter asks
20:21Why did you sign all your assets over to [Jeff Banks] when you got married?
It was the law. ... The law was that the husband is responsible for everything financially.
Presenter asks
The keepsakes
The book
Lectures on the Heritage of the Ultimate Law of Life
Daisaku Ikeda
It's all about life and death. I read a bit every day. And every time I read it I get more and more out of it.
The luxury
which is a tiny little object that I use for focusing my mind on when I chant. And that that way I could always keep my spirits up and I would really enjoy it. I'd be able to create value out of the whole experience.
Did you ever have a sense that maybe business wise things were going a bit wrong, or did it completely come like a bolt from the blue?
Oh, I knew things were wrong because, um, Jeff got more and more ill ill-tempered and angry and ... even though I was a director, I wasn't privy to anything that was going on in the business. And um he was just working just all the time, like I just driven, completely driven. And I had tons of money and I'd got pregnant. I was really wanted to have my baby and just be quiet.
Presenter asks
23:16When you had to start living the life of somebody who had no money and had to worry about money, how difficult did you find that?
No, no, no. I mean, at the beginning I was going out earning huge sums of money in order to pay huge debts, so I had to go out on tour, and I was doing tours that I didn't want to do. I wanted to be at home. ... finally I thought I would prefer to go out waitressing rather than do these gigs, so I did. I'm just not going to do things that I don't want to do. You know, the one thing that I want to keep in all this is my integrity.
“I have a wonderfully huge ego, size of many solar systems, my husband says.”
“I do everything better with my shoes off.”
“I won I love winning. I'm incredibly competitive. Don't try playing back gammon with me because I will win.”
“I'm just not going to do things that I don't want to do. You know, the one thing that I want to keep in all this is my integrity. I so want to keep that because not just for me but for my daughter, I want t her to to know that I can sustain that.”