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Castaway
1 appearance
Barrister, former MP, and chairman of the Greater London Council and the Royal Albert Hall.
On the island
Eight records
The keepsakes
No book or luxury recorded for this episode.
In conversation
Presenter asks
0:08You served in two World Wars, Louis. As everything, I believe, from [private] to colonel?
Uh yes, yes, I only achieved a a captaincy in the first war... acting and uh frequently unpaid. Uh but in the second war I rocketed to the rank of full colonel.
Presenter asks
0:25Are you a Londoner?
Oh, yes, yes, I'm a Cockney, born and bred and apart from being at wars and at Oxford, I've spent all my working life in London. Yes.
Presenter asks
6:15What about the famous Echo [at the Albert Hall]? Has that disappeared completely?
Well, I'm happy to report that the Echo disappeared about two years ago... Uh it was defeated by some rather ingenious plastic devices which hang from the roof... and they have completely destroyed the [echo]... Even the most meticulous uh critics now agree wholeheartedly... that the echo has gone and so nobody any longer gets uh two concerts for the price of one.
“I'm afraid I've been a political animal for upwards of forty years. Uh it it becomes a sort of itch. And uh once you've got it, you can't get rid of it.”
“I was in the House of Commons through a very interesting period until 1945, when I was hurled out with a great many better people.”
“[The chairmanship of the Finance Committee] resulted in the hardest year's work that I've ever had to do.”