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Arthur Edwards

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first: 2011-09-25
most recent: 2011-09-25
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“Well, in that case I'll have to have an inexhaustible supply of tea and a kettle. Best thing in the morning is a cup of tea and listen at the Today program. Well, if I can't have the Today program, I'll just have the tea.”
2011-09-25 · Desert Island Discs · Arthur Edwards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I thought about this long and hard, and I'd like to take a photographic album with my family pictures and friends in.”
2011-09-25 · Desert Island Discs · Arthur Edwards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This year I did the best tour the queen I've ever done and it was to Ireland, our nearest neighbour, and the last day in Dublin the British ambassador had a concert the opening performance was by award winning school choirs one from Belfast and one from Cork and the Mix the other day sang Danny Boy and that song means a lot to me. My wife's father was named Danny and a great friend of ours who died too young that was played at his funeral so it means a lot to me that song. Think it meant a lot to the Queen because that concert I've never seen the Queen so I moved. It was a great enter the visit”
2011-09-25 · Desert Island Discs · Arthur Edwards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“She says as she put her nurse's dress on this morning going to work. You forgot when you want to pack out. If you do what you love, carry on doing it.”
2011-09-25 · Desert Island Discs · Arthur Edwards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's a massive year next year, yeah. I'm really looking forward to it. And then, of course, she'll go to the Olympics, and it will be a massive year next year.”
2011-09-25 · Desert Island Discs · Arthur Edwards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You'd have been so proud. She would have told the whole parish, yeah, she would have been so immensely proud. And as I was, you know, when I got the letter, I was gobsmacked and it was a brilliant day and the queen, she said to me, I can't believe I'm giving you this. So she pinned the metal. She said, how many years have you been coming down here photographing me? I said, ma'am, it's 27 years. She said, well, let's have our photograph taken together.”
2011-09-25 · Desert Island Discs · Arthur Edwards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think so. I think that's true. And, you know, I covered him for 35 years nearly now. And I've seen him from a sort of Harry's age, you know, the young man about town and the playboy prince and all those names that went with it. Now I see this man who his work is immense.”
2011-09-25 · Desert Island Discs · Arthur Edwards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, yeah, it's been brilliant. Since 2005 when he married Camilla, it seems like a huge weight was lifted off his shoulders and he can now be himself. And to me, you know, I think that perhaps he should have married her when he had the chance when he was a young man, but he had lots to do and couldn't and probably regrets it. But now, of course, they're together. I see them together and they're incredibly happy.”
2011-09-25 · Desert Island Discs · Arthur Edwards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh Travis, I was asked to go to southern Sudan with Fran Healy, who's the singer in Travis, and of course when I sat down with Fran in our little tent in the middle of nowhere with no lights, we talked about his songs and I said, you know, tell me about flowers in the window. And he said, well, it was in France and I was with Nora, who's now his wife. And I looked up and they saw these flowers in this window, this French chateau, and he said, I wrote that song in twenty minutes. And it turned out to be one of these biggest hits. And it caused flowers in the window.”
2011-09-25 · Desert Island Discs · Arthur Edwards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I did. I thought it was again. People are not going to learn their lessons. I mean, and I know that William was terribly upset by that. And since then it stopped. We've moved on from that now. And hopefully it won't ever come back.”
2011-09-25 · Desert Island Discs · Arthur Edwards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, I did think about having done that in my wild days pursuing people in cars, I realized then, thank God that didn't happen to me, that I didn't cause anybody's death. But, you know, when I covered the inquest jury, when it went back to Paris and looked at where the scene of the accident was, and I stood by that tunnel for an hour and a half and realised that if you went in that at any speed, you were risking your life. But that particular occasion, when she walked through those doors, I don't know if you remember the pictures, the video of her walking through those doors at the Ritz Hotel in Paris, and the look on her face. She looked so unhappy. And, you know, the one regret I have she's probably feeling very unhappy when she died.”
2011-09-25 · Desert Island Discs · Arthur Edwards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I'd shut it all out of my mind. I just got on with getting this picture, getting the first edition. And I remember being at the hospital as the coffin was leaving. And Anne rang me and she said, are you okay? And I said, you know, the coffin's coming out now. And I started to cry and I was trying to take this picture. And it was just unbelievable. But she'd gone. And it was when that coughing came out of the hospital in Paris with the president's soldiers lying in the roof. Got it. That hit me then. She'd gone and it was.”
2011-09-25 · Desert Island Discs · Arthur Edwards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Your boys are both photographers. Yeah, it has gone well, and yeah, I do, I do thank God for that, you know, as I always said, it's bad at work, it's always great at home. And, you know, there's been some bad moments. When Diana died, I mean, that was terrible. I got caught in the middle of the night, get to Paris, land in Paris, be told by the office she's dead. I mean, there's a woman I worked 17 years with, and there she's banged, wiped out. And then just like...”
2011-09-25 · Desert Island Discs · Arthur Edwards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This is Brian Ferry who did an album on Bob Dylan songs. I love Bob Dylan. I think he's one of the greatest songwriters and performers ever, but I love Brian Ferris version of a simple twist of fate.”
2011-09-25 · Desert Island Discs · Arthur Edwards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, what have I built for? Well, I tell you what, I got married when I was twenty one and I never regretted a day of it. And I look at her. I know I did the right thing. And it was the right thing. You know, I did the right thing and no regrets. We've got three fabulous kids. And, you know, when I was working hard in the 70s and 80s, like I was working like a fiend to make something of myself. She brought up three great kids and they're brilliant citizens and I'm very proud of them all.”
2011-09-25 · Desert Island Discs · Arthur Edwards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Said, you can live with a girl for two years, he said, before you get married, he said, but I have to get it right first time or otherwise you'll be the first to criticise me. And they were prophetic words because there we were back at this great monument to love, this man built this great mausoleum for his wife, and of course it was on that trip where they were playing polo and when he went to kiss her, she moved her head sideways. And that was it. And then, of course, the game was up. It was just a question of not if they were going to separate, but when they were going to separate. It happened and it was one of the saddest days, I think.”
2011-09-25 · Desert Island Discs · Arthur Edwards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Of course it was all choreographed, every person had been cleared out, there was no one in the background just her sitting on this store and this massive photographers taking this picture. And, you know, in many ways I felt sorry for the prince because in 1980 I'd gone to the Taj with Prince Charles and that's when he just started his relationship with Princess Diana and we sort of said she lovely girl she is. He said yes he said.”
2011-09-25 · Desert Island Discs · Arthur Edwards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“She did every kid, yeah. Every kid that was there that day and the queue, she gave them the food. She didn't just do it for the photograph, yeah. I mean, that woman had amazing compassion, and I see it in her boys now. I remember in Nigeria she held the hands of a leper. He lost several fingers, and she held his hand and looked into his eyes, and made him feel the most important person in the whole world. You don't learn that skill, you know, that's something you've got. And she had it in bucket loads.”
2011-09-25 · Desert Island Discs · Arthur Edwards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, my next song is by my favourite singer Leonard Cohen. I'm the only one in my family that likes Leonard, and I went to see him in concert a couple of years ago, and it was the best concert ever went to. And I picked this song, The Tower of Song.”
2011-09-25 · Desert Island Discs · Arthur Edwards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And there was, yeah, the Vatican photographer had taken it and it's just one of the great memories, great memories of my life.”
2011-09-25 · Desert Island Discs · Arthur Edwards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Snap a meat, yeah, which way around it was, anyway. Yeah, that wasn't very long ago, actually, with Prince Charles and the lovely Camilla in the Pope's private office in Rome. And I was the pool photographer. And the Holy Father said, oh, is this the British press? And he said, yes, Your Holiness, he said. And that man there, Mr. Edwards, he said, has been photographing me for over thirty years. And he's a Catholic. And of course, when that session was over, the protocol officer said, look, put your cameras down and come over and meet the Holy Father. And I did. And then walked to the bus, and I was in a daze. The phone rings and it's my son John, who's the boss, and said, just tell me there's a picture of this. Just tell me there's a picture of this.”
2011-09-25 · Desert Island Discs · Arthur Edwards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, when John Major went to South Africa after a apartheid and there had been elections, there was a state banquet and I was waiting in the banquet for John Major to arrive and just in walked Nelson Mandana and he came up to me and he said are you with Mr Major? I said yes he said welcome to South Africa and then he went over to John Major's press secretary and he shook his hand and I photographed that and he has that on his wall at home but no one photographed me doing it unfortunately but it was a great occasion.”
2011-09-25 · Desert Island Discs · Arthur Edwards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He's picked her editor. He's a picture editor in the sun, yeah, and it's not always as easy as people think it is for a start. I don't want ever to mess up because he would then have to say to the editor, Arthur's messed up. He didn't want to say that, you know, because he doesn't want me to fail and I don't want to disappoint him. So you have to kind of work even harder to make that work. But the one golden rule that he insists upon more than anybody is that once we leave the office, we never talk about work.”
2011-09-25 · Desert Island Discs · Arthur Edwards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“For Paul, I did, yeah. Paul, my second son, yeah, he had a hard time at it at first because, you know, they'd say, oh, you're only here because your dad's a photographer, you know. But Paul's work is brilliant now, and he does it with no fuss, and he's got a really kind nature. And, you know, he's a superb at what he does.”
2011-09-25 · Desert Island Discs · Arthur Edwards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh this is Macfly. I was asked to go to Uganda with them to never recording a song for comic relief and I bought their album and played it and played it in the car for a fortnight before so I knew every single song. And I think they appreciated I taking the trouble. And when we got back out of the blue they invited my grandchildren and their friends to one of their concerts. And so this really is for my grandchildren.”
2011-09-25 · Desert Island Discs · Arthur Edwards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He was ill, but I never thought it was that bad, and it was a shock, it was a shock, and a shock for my mother, I mean, that hair fell out and everything my mother sort of ages to go over it. And, you know, things for us as a family turned down with them because we had a house that went with his job and so we lost that house and then we had to move into a very small flat. You know, they mummy to go to work, and for a few years it was pretty miserable. You know, it was tough times, but when you've got nothing, you don't realize how tough it is. All you know is if you want anything, you've got to go out and work for it, and then you appreciate it more.”
2011-09-25 · Desert Island Discs · Arthur Edwards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Come out of the blue, did you? Did yeah, I was walking home from my first job and I got a job in the darkroom working as in the darkroom in a studio in the West End. And an uncle stopped me and said, where are you going? I said, I might go to pictures. And he said, don't you know your dad's dead? And I said, no, I don't.”
2011-09-25 · Desert Island Discs · Arthur Edwards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I can't remember that. It must have been £70, £60, £70, which was a terrific lot of money. Then I worked like Billy, you know, to get the money back to get married, I had to work to do that.”
2011-09-25 · Desert Island Discs · Arthur Edwards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Because I wanted to be a photographer. And, you know, my mum there, my dad was dead. My dad died when I was fifteen, 16. So she was office cleaning, so that was a lot of money for her to find for that to get that camera for me.”
2011-09-25 · Desert Island Discs · Arthur Edwards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My mum was fantastic, my mum Dolly, it was a great character, she had a great sense of humour, and I get that sense of humour from her today. Struggled, you know, never went to work, obviously women didn't go to work then, they reared their children at home. Money was very tight, but she sort of made it go round, and she wanted more for her children than just to be dockers. I mean, we were surrounded by the docks, but she wanted more for us than that.”
2011-09-25 · Desert Island Discs · Arthur Edwards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, all I would, yeah, Arthur Edwards And we're driving along. And a cat ran across the road. And of course he braked. And I went forward, smashed my face on the front of the dashboard. Of course when I walked in the house my mother was there with a new baby sister I didn't even know about they've been beating him she says have they been beating him to tell the truth no no he said I stopped at this cat oh you and your cats you know she said to him”
2011-09-25 · Desert Island Discs · Arthur Edwards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He was a lurry driver, but he was on war, you know, he was travelling to Scotland with stuff for the troops and everything.”
2011-09-25 · Desert Island Discs · Arthur Edwards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I was born in August and the Blitz started a month later that mum and dad, you know, they built a shelter at the bottom of the garden and we rushed down there when the bombs were dropping near the docks we lived. That went on for a while until they decided to send me away to be evacuated. And I was away for three years and I didn't come back to the end of the war. And because of the war, mum and dad couldn't get down to see me. So I think one visit dad made and he made a little toy lorry for me. I'll never forget when he gave it to me. In his workshop.”
2011-09-25 · Desert Island Discs · Arthur Edwards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, this is the Kaiser Chiefs and Ruby. My second son, Paul, waited ten years for their first child, and him and his wife, Laura. They decided to call if it was a girl to call her Ruby, as she was giving birth to Ruby in the hospital. The Kaiser chiefs were number one with this song Ruby. It was playing, was it? It was playing in the delivery room, actually on radio too. And so, you know, we've got to have this.”
2011-09-25 · Desert Island Discs · Arthur Edwards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh absolutely one that particularly stands out in my mind was the Duchess of York when she was just not long after she'd married. She's a big patron of the motor neuron disease and there was this group of patients and the Duchess was there. As she went to sit down, the lady in waiting forgot to put the chair there and she fell backwards and her legs went up in the air showing far too much. And instead of photographing, I picked her up. Now, you know that, and I know that, but the editor of the sun of that day didn't know that, and I don't feel bad about that at all. You know, I felt that was the right thing to do. If that had been my wife falling back like that and someone to photograph her, I'd have been, you know, terribly upset. So I didn't, I just picked her up. And, I mean, it would have been one page one, and that would have been the whole of my sort of relationship with her would have ended. And it went on to, we did some really nice things together.”
2011-09-25 · Desert Island Discs · Arthur Edwards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I wouldn't do it again, but you've got to remember there must have been about 40 photographers on that island all trying for those pictures. And if I had not got them, they would have bought them off somebody else. It's the first time and only time I photographed the royal, they'd not known I was there.”
2011-09-25 · Desert Island Discs · Arthur Edwards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He coldly they said Kelvin Arthur's here, and he came in and lifted me up off the floor, and he said, You come back here a hero. You will not.”
2011-09-25 · Desert Island Discs · Arthur Edwards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, I did do that, and it's the one regret I have. But, you know, I arrived back in England after taking those pictures that the next day, and as I turned on the radio in my car, I was being pilloried, and I felt awful about that. And a few months later, Princess Diana asked me about it, and she said, how much money did you make out of the Bahama mama pictures? I said, nothing, ma'am. I said, I got the same amount of money as going as I covered a court case in Bradford. I just got my expenses. And she smiled and she said, Oh, pass me the Kleenex. So she was not unhappy about it. And when she said that, it made me feel a whole lot better about it.”
2011-09-25 · Desert Island Discs · Arthur Edwards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I agree I don't think degrades you just photograph someone because they're a celebrities, right? I think that unless there's a story attached, a real new story, then that's fair enough, because that's to be got. That story's got to be told. But if it's just gratuitously photographing somewhere just because they happen to be walking down the King's Road shopping, I think it's wrong, and I don't see any point of that.”
2011-09-25 · Desert Island Discs · Arthur Edwards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I hope there is, because, you know, we've not learned anything, you know, from what happened to the princess about pursuit of celebrities and the royal family. I think we've learned an awful lot, and I think we've come a long way. And it's getting less and less. The paparazzi photographer is fine in a hard moment to make a living because, you know, you can't photograph them just willy-nilly now. When William expects a reasonable expectation of privacy, he demands it now, and they take action, and there will take action against photographers that abuse that.”
2011-09-25 · Desert Island Discs · Arthur Edwards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“When the next one is Catherine Jenkins singing Parnus Angelicus, a soloist from our parish and our parish church in St. Joseph's in Hutton sang this at our daughter's wedding and this brings back just wonderful memories of that day. I mean, any man will tell you, you know, escorting your daughter down the aisle on her wedding day is probably the most emotional thing you'll ever do in your life.”
2011-09-25 · Desert Island Discs · Arthur Edwards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And then, of course, when he did his first debts, when he first did some talking and William Crawling, it was phenomenal. So I photographed him all those years. And it was great to see him get married.”
2011-09-25 · Desert Island Discs · Arthur Edwards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The back. Oh, that was brilliant. But Fanny was talking to Prince Charles about that. Did you mind him borrowing your car because he loves that car? It's his birthday present from his mother. And he said, Oh no, he said, he asked me if he could use it. I said, it seemed to be a problem driving. He said, yes, he said, because he didn't take the handbrake off. Lucky he didn't break dough halfway down the mount. Anyway, he said that. And Harry dressed up the car, made it all look spectacular for him and the others, members of the royal family. So, you know, it was absolutely a brilliant day.”
2011-09-25 · Desert Island Discs · Arthur Edwards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, didn't his private secretary, but he did send me a lovely note when I sent him the pictures. And it was the page one picture, you see, but the thing is every photographer is aiming for that page one on every newspaper.”
2011-09-25 · Desert Island Discs · Arthur Edwards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“in the palace forecourt to do the balcony because you know great things have happened on that balcony And I wanted that position, and I pulled quite a good pass, but it was outside the abbey. I wanted to be outside the palace and In fact, I'll tell you now, I haven't told anybody else this, but it was fixed because William asked me to do the pictures for him and Kate, and that was absolute pleasure to do that. He's a fine. So what?”
2011-09-25 · Desert Island Discs · Arthur Edwards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, because would it not be your picture? Well, it was my picture in the end, but it could have been anywhere. It could have been, you know, somewhere running from the crowd. It could have been William kissing his bride at the altar. Who knows where the picture was going to come? So everything had to be covered. But I wanted the picture outside.”
2011-09-25 · Desert Island Discs · Arthur Edwards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, this is Prince Charles again and Diana at the Live Aid Concert in 1985 and Bob Geldoff escorting him to their seats and giving the Prince some earplugs because the music was going to be loud and Princess declining. And this is Queen and Freddie Mercury and Radio Gaga performance that just took the place apart was most wonderful, wonderful event.”
2011-09-25 · Desert Island Discs · Arthur Edwards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, looking back on it, it was a different time. It was the eighties, it was very aggressive the way we went about things then. Not so much these days. We're much more gentle, I mean, much more, I suppose, realizing that they do have private lives as well. And we're very respectful of that. But then it wasn't the case. You know, I went there to get a picture. But in fact, I never got a picture, but I got an awful telling off.”
2011-09-25 · Desert Island Discs · Arthur Edwards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He said, Will public footpaths, he said, of walking on, not taking pictures from Solomon to say. I said, well, I'm just doing my job. And he said, some job. And I said, well, at least I've got a job. And I didn't mean that as an insult, but he took it as an insult and he just whacked his horse and he galloped back to the house and steam coming out of his ears. On the following Wednesday, his policeman came up to me and said, what happened the other day down at High Grow? I said, why? He said, well, he came steaming into the room. He said, we're all sitting in the kitchen drinking coffee around the table. He whacked the whip, bang on the table. He said, the coffee cups went flying. He said, you're supposed to be guarding me, and Arthur Edwards is on my front lawn.”
2011-09-25 · Desert Island Discs · Arthur Edwards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, he reminded me that day. You're right, yes. I'll tell you that story. He just bought Highgrove and the Ellis has sent me down to sort of see what I could get. And on the way I bought an ordinance survey map and noticed that there was a footpath running along the bottom of his ground. and I'm walking along this path with a big lens on my shoulder, and he come galloping up on his horse. What are you doing on my land? he screamed. I said, I'm not on your land. I'm on a public footpath, sir.”
2011-09-25 · Desert Island Discs · Arthur Edwards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source