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Castaway
1 appearance
Comedian and actor who, after an impromptu performance during a TV play breakdown, joined Brian Rick's team at the White Hall Theatre.
On the island
Eight records
The Sleeping Beauty: Grand Pas de Deux (Act 3)
My wife was a ballet answer, a very good ballad answer. And she taught me how to enjoy ballet music. Not to the full yet, I'm still trying. And my daughter is seven, my oldest daughter, she's unfortunately a bit like me. And very often we clear the room and she puts on our little ballet dress and we do the pas de d'au. We don't dance very well. She's has very good lessons, but I know how it should feel. And we look into each other's eyes. and we dance round that room as if we were the same height. And as if we really could dance. And we dance the Grand Pard de Deux.
The keepsakes
No book or luxury recorded for this episode.
In conversation
Presenter asks
0:23Apart from solitude, is there anything in the situation of being a desert island castaway that would frighten you particularly?
[Anything] that runs quickly frightens the life out of me. So I would be petrified of the spiders and the quick darting things.
Presenter asks
3:39How much of your own character do you think [writer] John Chapman puts in [the television scripts]?
Just a bit too much. He's frightening the way he knows me. But sometimes I have to do things to Hugh, and I have to be crafty with him, and afterwards I think I hope really and truly I'm not that bad. Maybe as I'm conscious of it, maybe I maybe I won't be, maybe I'll cut it off, maybe I'll stop myself becoming like that.
Presenter asks
4:31Terry, your career is unusual in the number of times you've been up and down. How do you account for this?
Because I make mistakes. I'm I'm not not ashamed to say I make hideous mistakes and I'll go on making them. I'd rather make mistakes and be a bit mad occasionally than be stayed and safe. Because when you've made a mistake and you go down, there's always that thrill of of being able to pay the mortgage off after a few months.
Presenter asks
4:56What's your big ambition?
To learn enough. To feel that I'm almost a star when I'm say sixty-five and I'm not ashamed of taking the money anymore. And I think, well, I've learnt it, and I think I'll have that much money, and they'll say, We'll be honored to pay it. I don't suppose it'll ever come to that in my thoughts.
“I like arguing, I like discussing, and I'm not very nice to live with sometimes. And if I'm gonna be stuck with myself on this desert island, it's a bit of a bit of a job.”
“I couldn't just live there on my own and think of me as the only person.”
“Records of all descriptions excite men. And give me something which nothing else can give.”
“I'd rather make mistakes and be a bit mad occasionally than be stayed and safe.”