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Tuning in…
Castaway
1 appearance
Film director best known for Dangerous Liaisons and High Fidelity.
On the island
Eight records
I'm Against ItFavourite
seems more and more central to my life... close to home.
she used to sing me songs, and she would either sing Gracie Field, singing Now is the hour. Or a song called Put Another Nickel In. Or she would sing Good Night Are Reed.
Max C. Freedman and James E. Myers
really one of the songs that coincided with my waking up.
Catherine Deneuve & Nino Castelnuovo
from a film that I particularly liked in the sixties... There is another film director I meet and we sing bits of this soundtrack to each other.
George R. Poulton and Ken Darby
when he made the film he was still blonde. And I always think of Elvis as a dirty blonde. I mean the most beautiful man in the world, but a blonde. And after he'd made this film, he dyed his hair dark because he wanted to look like Tony Curtis.
Felix F. Feist and Al Piantadosi
a song that I used to sing with her. I had three sons, and eventually a daughter came along... I'm trying to pretend this for all my children.
Commentary on Arsenal winning the FA Cup, May 2002
I support the Arsenal. So I thought I'd have a bit of... the programmes they have on Saturday afternoon when... those football commentaries, I could they've they've just been going all my life hearing those voices.
Jarvis Cocker, Nick Banks, Steve Mackey, Russell Senior and Candida Doyle
suggested by one of my sons, my son Will... having music I didn't know on the Tez Island would might be rather more interesting than having things that I knew, because it it would give you something to learn and you would have new experiences rather than just going over old experiences.
In conversation
Presenter asks
0:53So you cast yourself, do you, Stephen, as the patriarch in all of this sort of leading the tribe on set, do you?
Well, I've become I've grown older and become the patriarch. Once I was the prodigal s or not I was the youngest son. I was like a child on these sets and then one day I woke up and discovered I was the oldest.
Presenter asks
2:10Does it make you, therefore, possessive about the people you work with?
I'm jealous... I get possessive about the actors.
Presenter asks
5:24Tell me about the the dark years then. I mean, what what sort of little boy were you?
I was spoilt rotten by [my mother], and received barrel loads of love, but I also think she must have been very unhappy... We sat in this large suburban house, most of which was closed up because you couldn't afford to heat the rooms. And my mother and I really sat in the kitchen throughout the forties playing cards and... listening to the radio and... driving each other mad, I suspect.
The keepsakes
The book
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Edward Gibbon
another of my sons, Frankie, was banging on about how wonderful decline and fall of the Roman Empire was, so I suppose I'd better take that.
Presenter asks
21:21Why do we think of [the BBC years] as the golden period of television drama? What made it so special?
People were very, very interested in the plays that were being written at the time, and they... There was a sort of policy, really, of of getting the best writers in the country. To write these accounts of what it was like to to live in Britain.
Presenter asks
38:09Are you always nervous before you make a film?
When I read a good script. After three or four pages, I normally have to go and have a lie-down because you get nervous that it'll be a big disappoint that something will go wrong... you start reading it and you you start to come to life and then I get very panicky that it'll all... collapse and be a big disappointment, so I have to go and lie quietly in the dark room.
“Yes, it seems to me you get to make the film and then you get to make the family that makes the film, so it's a sort of double helping of being God.”
“I really started my life again in my teens.”
“I'm irredeemably cheap, I think that's what you're trying to say.”
“I'm a rotten castaway, I apologise.”