Tuning in…
Tuning in…
Castaway
1 appearance
Snooker champion.
On the island
Eight records
It's a very slow track, it's it's a late-night one.
New York Philharmonic, conducted by Leonard Bernstein
It always conjures up feelings of our armies coming home and it's a very sort of chest out proud job for me.
It's my greatest sing-along record in the bath at the moment and it it makes the tiles fall off the wall unfortunately
If if I had to be on my own for a long time I wouldn't be able to survive without this'cause it's a great chanting sing-along record
Earl Clugh uh uh and Bob James are uh are favourites of mine anyway, and they've just teamed up together and produced an L P called Two of a Kind and uh the first track on the album's called Falcon, which is very, very nice.
Well, I think one of my favorite artists is George Duke, who's been around for Yonks. And this is one of his earlier records called Liberated Fantasies.
I had great fun during my school days going along uh and listening to both groups and Gentle Giant I've got more records of them than the other and I think if I had to take one of their records I'd take the the live album record
I Need You NowFavourite
The track from it I think I would listen to quite like it's r very romantic bit. I'm fairly romantic I suppose, a little bit. I do cry at rocky films if if I get a chance to watch them.
In conversation
Presenter asks
0:31Are you any relation of the late Joe Davis?
Joe Davis? No, probably one of my most asked questions, and unless Joe or Fred was a milkman, that's my usual reply. I'm not, no.
Presenter asks
3:45Did you see your father playing [snooker]?
I remember going along when I was only just able to see over the table and watch my father play and um up until the age of about fifteen, sixteen I thought he was a very good player. But it's amazing how uh how uh you look look back and and you realize there's lots and lots of club players all over the place who are fairly good.
Presenter asks
5:19How much does a game depend on the queue?
It's it's very psychological really, uh um the same way as a putter would affect a golfer's putting ability on the green. But um it's not so much the cue as the tip at the end of it. I could be playing my cue and if I had to put a new tip on, if my tip fell off the day before a big competition, I would feel a bit uneasy because um they take a bit of knocking in.
Presenter asks
The keepsakes
The book
Tom Sharpe
Well, I I'd have to go for something completely different. Um my favourite author, and I wish for this particular bit he'd he'd put them all in one book, is is Tom Sharpe. And um if I could have the complete works of Tom Sharp instead of Shakespeare, I would do. But I I definitely have the throwback and I definitely have wilt.
The luxury
I think I'd have to take to see me through the years, I'd take a snooker table because it's been it's been the love of my life for so long.
How were you doing at school?
Well, I was fair at school. I I wasn't misspending my youth. When when I was taking my O levels, I never played any hookie or truant at all. I went up during the night times to play and at the weekends. But I ended up uh leaving school with five O levels and completely ruined the O levels because I was getting very serious about snooker then.
Presenter asks
33:50Could you look after yourself [on a desert island]?
Not at all. … I'd be useless. … I think I've missed my mum a lot. … I'm very impractical really. I'm very practical when it comes to snooker. But as far as um making myself uh self-sufficient, I would find it very difficult, I think.
“I fell in love with it and I fell in love with it so much and I think that was the important thing. And uh I did have the aptitude as it turned out in the end.”
“The money can only do certain things, but you can't you can't put a price on actually walking out in front of people and you can't put a price on actually being able to hold the cup up at the end.”
“The only way you can get out of bad form is to practice. It doesn't matter what anybody tells you. People who say that you should leave it alone and then start again is just wrong. You you've just got to keep on at it.”