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Duncan Bannatyne

lines on the record: 60
first: 2010-03-14
most recent: 2010-03-14
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“Well, I would have taken a black river good, but because I can't, you know, the thing is I have this problem wherever I go, I can't sleep at night unless I have a really, really nice soft pillow and it's got to be quite thick, so I want a nice big, thick, soft pillow.”
2010-03-14 · Desert Island Discs · Duncan Bannatyne · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“A book that I've promised myself I would read again so many times but I haven't The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Folly. It's a fantastic book.”
2010-03-14 · Desert Island Discs · Duncan Bannatyne · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“When a visit places and you see the problems it's been created by violence, by gangs and by dictatorships, and then a few years ago when we decided to go into Iraq. And I just think that before we start again, and all politicians should be forced every Sunday to listen to this record, because we should all be forced to give peace a better chance.”
2010-03-14 · Desert Island Discs · Duncan Bannatyne · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, I think it was on island or would always be looking for a way out. It was only when I realizes there's no way off the island that we start contemplating suicide.”
2010-03-14 · Desert Island Discs · Duncan Bannatyne · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I would cup terribly, I would find it very, very difficult. I think I'm practical enough to be able to catch some fish and feed myself, but I would think what was the point unless I knew I could go off at it somewhere.”
2010-03-14 · Desert Island Discs · Duncan Bannatyne · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Thank you. She's very good at keeping me in check. She is, she has women have a way of doing that, don't you? You probably do it yourself.”
2010-03-14 · Desert Island Discs · Duncan Bannatyne · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But yeah, I suppose I have a bit of an ampig and ego if you like, and I do like putting my name on buildings, but Donald Trump. But no, I've got a different.”
2010-03-14 · Desert Island Discs · Duncan Bannatyne · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, well the two look after actually are very young they're still at school. And unfortunately they're coming back quite often to single parent houses where the parent is either out maybe's working or maybe in the pub, and so there's no one for them to do the homework worth or to talk to or anything so the company of a day centre now and spend the time there. Many people say they joined the gangs because if they didn't join the gangs they wouldn't be safe. So we're dealing with these people and talking to them all the time now.”
2010-03-14 · Desert Island Discs · Duncan Bannatyne · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, that's right. I want to make sure it doesn't And so we found the former hospital where there was 27 children who had all been abandoned by the parents, and they all had HIV, and they're horrible places, the worst place in the world I've ever been to. and we spent six months building the new orphanage for it's an amazing situation because one of the doctors at the hospital said you're wasting your time building an offage because his children would be dead by the time you finish last year had the privilege of walking down the aisle to give one of these women away because she's now seventeen years old and she's got married I've just put one actually which is the day center for Spanatine's house in Britain it's in Glasgow an Easter house which is pretty bad gang related so they're all quite different and quite amazing.”
2010-03-14 · Desert Island Discs · Duncan Bannatyne · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I am. I always hear things when I'm talking machine. And she actually got a surprise guest to come to my sixth poster party. And then she's knocks him walking on singing the one and only. But he sang and all my guests sank you are the one and only of course I didn't say singing I am the one and only.”
2010-03-14 · Desert Island Discs · Duncan Bannatyne · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, this is a bit of like self indulgence. In actual fact, number six is birthday because my wife knew how much I think the record is written for me. I hope you're saying that with your tongue.”
2010-03-14 · Desert Island Discs · Duncan Bannatyne · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No Joan actually booked me into the New York School of Acting. What happened is I got a great acting job over secting in a great soap in the northeast of England, which flopped because it only showed one episode and then didn't recommission it, but it was called Girls Club. and I was acting on it, and the director said to me, Duncan, he said, I've got a friend who's doing this thing called Dragon's Den. I think you'd look at it. And I looked at it and said, But this is reality television, and I don't do reality. I'm an actor. I'm an actor, yes. And the director said,”
2010-03-14 · Desert Island Discs · Duncan Bannatyne · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I didn't realize her just it wasn't on a Saturday you would go to an addition. There be fifty people at edition. So you have one chance of fifty of getting the job if you like. So you can see that people are actually just making nothing and just going around trying really getting the ladder of acting.”
2010-03-14 · Desert Island Discs · Duncan Bannatyne · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think the first one was obviously when I left my first wife. Oh, right. And then Juana actually separated for a couple of years, and I think that was acting was one. So I think there's more to come.”
2010-03-14 · Desert Island Discs · Duncan Bannatyne · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I've had about three mid lights. Yeah, I don't think if I'm the last one, go on this sound, good. Take me to when was the first one?”
2010-03-14 · Desert Island Discs · Duncan Bannatyne · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was getting bored with business and I was getting a little bit bored with life again, and so I decided I needed a new challenge and I thought I'm going to take up acting. This should be about six years ago be fifty five thing.”
2010-03-14 · Desert Island Discs · Duncan Bannatyne · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I still hope that I'm able through talking to politicians to give some bit of influence into how we should run the country, but also the profile has also helped the business and business is good.”
2010-03-14 · Desert Island Discs · Duncan Bannatyne · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah. And I thought, you know, I've done this thing of created 3,000 jobs and he doesn't even know who I am, but I want you to be known and I wanted to be able to talk to politicians.”
2010-03-14 · Desert Island Discs · Duncan Bannatyne · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, I wanted a bit of profile because a couple of things happen. Tony Blair came into power, and he had a party in London, and he invited people like the Gallagher Brothers.”
2010-03-14 · Desert Island Discs · Duncan Bannatyne · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, you know the sight was so apt, I think, that people spend a life thinking, you know, should have done something different, would have done something different, could have done something different, and Bevanight puts it in words. In actual fact, Bevel Knight actually came and sang this in my 60th birth, which was absolutely fantastic.”
2010-03-14 · Desert Island Discs · Duncan Bannatyne · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Most people start smoking before they're eighteen years old and if they haven't started by then or twenty then they won't start, which is great and I'm quite confident none of them will ever ever smoke cigarettes. Yeah, there's a point where they have to live their own life and my oldest one is the one who's now married in June and she's a baby and she's very very responsible so it's work for her.”
2010-03-14 · Desert Island Discs · Duncan Bannatyne · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“To some extent what happened is when we floated the company search engine in nineteen ninety two. My wife Item and I decided to set up a trust fund for the children. That time there had been a story about a chap who'd bought his son a fast car and his son had drove him to brisk and killed himself and so we decided to put some conditions into the trust fund and the conditions were that they couldn't buy a fast car if they got done for drinking and driving they wouldn't get any more money from the trust fund and cigarettes was one of the things on drugs.”
2010-03-14 · Desert Island Discs · Duncan Bannatyne · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“happens when you're sitting in hose and my wife says what's wrong and says it's not working you know and then from there it became a divorce and that was it and eventually I met Joanne and started falling in love again and started to walk to have another family again”
2010-03-14 · Desert Island Discs · Duncan Bannatyne · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That was very difficult in the run up to when my wife and I separated, I was just very unhappy, and I would get in the car and drive to work and stop in the lay and just start crying. And I came very close to considering suicide. I just knew life wasn't right when you've got a nice house and a nice wife and kids and you've got money. How can things not be happy? But I just knew it wasn't right.”
2010-03-14 · Desert Island Discs · Duncan Bannatyne · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I took my wife Joan. I wasn't really into music all that much, but she was. I went to see this musical aspects of love and we had this fantastic song by Michael Ball. Love changes everything. And it's always stuck with us and really enjoy it. It's a fantastic song.”
2010-03-14 · Desert Island Discs · Duncan Bannatyne · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yet you know, one of the things I don't want to do is say, you know, this is how you should lead your life. I just tell a story of how my life happened and that's it. What happened is I started building the first Nussingholm, the three bedrooms, and And the bank had said to me when it's fool will lend you seventy percent of the valuation. So we finished it and the max is okay, I'll have to come on Monday morning and just check it's full. So that weekend worried about it because it wasn't actually full. And so some mother and a few of her friends. I actually lighted back my engine Monday morning. I said, look, the thirty bedroom's thirty old people.”
2010-03-14 · Desert Island Discs · Duncan Bannatyne · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There were few turfs during it, yeah. I mean, the worst one was actually a crowbar I was attacked by a crowbar by a chap, and we ended up in the middle of the street, and then people started coming along and saying, you know, this is stupid. I said, yeah, no, it's stupid. And he said to them, OK, okay, I've had enough. Then he says to them, Will you take my crow and put it back in my van for me?”
2010-03-14 · Desert Island Discs · Duncan Bannatyne · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I actually had my own taxi, Clyde Bank at that time wasn't licensed, so anyone could put a taxis in there and be a taxi driver. And I did it until I left Scotland. And there was thirty years old when I bought the first ice cream van.”
2010-03-14 · Desert Island Discs · Duncan Bannatyne · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I find it very hard to express my emotions. I spent a bit of time in Romania travelling with UNICEF and you saw some terrible things. When I came home I'd lie in bed at night time and some of you saw that day would go through your head over and over again and so you lying in bed and you couldn't sleep and you'd be crying and the pillow would be soaking wet and I found out what I could do is I could jump out of bed. I could write the story down and get back into bed. So that's how I get my motions out, you know, hard to express them when I'm talking to people or when I'm in people's company. I go with the children to the movies and I sit and cry watching movies. It's amazing.”
2010-03-14 · Desert Island Discs · Duncan Bannatyne · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I spent seven months locked up, and you could only write a letter once a week, and I wrote to my then girlfriend and asked her to meet me when I came out. I wasn't sure she would meet me, and we wrenched to meet under this big clock. Poddington River Station. And I remember arriving at Paddington not long ago if she was going to be there. First of all, I'm looking for the clock because I wasn't sure which clock it was. First of all, I don't see her, and then she appears, and she's there, and it was great. A few years later after this record came out. This record just brings it back every time.”
2010-03-14 · Desert Island Discs · Duncan Bannatyne · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I think you had to be fit and you had to look after yourself. It was very fit, it was quite musculin, and so nobody took me on, if you like.”
2010-03-14 · Desert Island Discs · Duncan Bannatyne · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I didn't take Kayla to commanding officers and so quite often I would be told off or got in trouble. I think I had about eighteen charges before I was actually court martialed.”
2010-03-14 · Desert Island Discs · Duncan Bannatyne · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I think I was, yeah, yeah. And when we used to go and used to get in so much trouble, but we circumnavigated the world before I was nineteen years old and an aircraft carrier. And of course then we just spend our time training for the boxing.”
2010-03-14 · Desert Island Discs · Duncan Bannatyne · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, because people around us had cars to start with people talked about holidays and I remember when we got our first television I think I remember going to a friend's house actually and stand outside his house watching the television and we eventually got a television so we always seem to blaspheme things like that”
2010-03-14 · Desert Island Discs · Duncan Bannatyne · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, after starting grammar school and building up my paper around, I flopped miserably at exams. Why? And I hated it, I think because I spent all day delivering papers. And at no one, I couldn't do my homework and no one really helped me with the homework and things like that just didn't work out. I just couldn't. I was bottomless. And everything except maths.”
2010-03-14 · Desert Island Discs · Duncan Bannatyne · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was nineteen years old and I was in Dravi. I used to box for the Romevi and I was training, I was very fit and were coming back from offshore. And as we were going up the side of the ship, upstairs my commanding officer was coming down and disliked waiting for people to come out of lift before you get in he should have waited to wake him up. And so he started shouting at us as if it was our fault. I think he'd had a couple of drinks and he was shown off in front of his girlfriend. And I had words with him, and by an altercation, and ended up tracking him off the side of an aircraft carrier.”
2010-03-14 · Desert Island Discs · Duncan Bannatyne · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I spent a lot of time away from home in the Royal Navy and now I'm living in England and I quite often go home. It just reminds you of going home. Tom joins at Green Green Grass of Home and what a great record.”
2010-03-14 · Desert Island Discs · Duncan Bannatyne · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, and all these kids had bikes now what type of bike, so I asked my mother if I could bite, and she said no, and she said, Well, why not? She said because we're poor. And I said, well, what can I do? And she says, go and get a paper round. So my first actual entrepreneurial. aspect of life was when I put one paper round up at the age of eleven by my mother's backing.”
2010-03-14 · Desert Island Discs · Duncan Bannatyne · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's right, of course they had a mangled in it of these automatic washing machines I have known. I remember turning the mango for her but I remember when I was eleven years old and I'd started at the high school and I wasn't very well accepted by the people in high school because they were a bit posh.”
2010-03-14 · Desert Island Discs · Duncan Bannatyne · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My mum just worked to look after us and it was very, very difficult. She's lovely, she's still alive now. My father died, but she's great, she's eighty four years old now. I was with her just a couple of weeks ago.”
2010-03-14 · Desert Island Discs · Duncan Bannatyne · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, my father was fantastic, and I should fight the memory of my father's pride in what I'd achieved was what drove me on sometimes when life wasn't great and business was a bit difficult. And he was very, very proud and he died very, very proud, which makes me very, very happy.”
2010-03-14 · Desert Island Discs · Duncan Bannatyne · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, the thing is, being a typical child, I just knew my father as this person who disciplined me. And we did spend a bit of time together. He had a chicken run and we'd get chickens and pluck the chickens together and would plant vegetables together.”
2010-03-14 · Desert Island Discs · Duncan Bannatyne · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, you never actually spoke about his mother. I just know that she'd committed suicide and they came out and that was it.”
2010-03-14 · Desert Island Discs · Duncan Bannatyne · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He didn't until Helen died, and then he did then both get drunk together, and he told me quite a few things that I'd never realized before. That's how hungry they were and things like that. Now during the war his mother killed herself, his mother had committed suicide Didn't want to know him, I couldn't look after him. And so he ended up with his antimesi, who was married to Duncan Walker, which is where I got my name from Duncan Walker Banatan. And they looked after him, and they introduced him actually to my mother.”
2010-03-14 · Desert Island Discs · Duncan Bannatyne · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Shortly after the war he was amongst the people that looked like the living dead and described as the living dead were about five stone and walking about like zombies.”
2010-03-14 · Desert Island Discs · Duncan Bannatyne · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He wasn't available, and we had human leak came along and they spent the evening. I was absolutely a fantastic night, and her favourite, don't you want me?”
2010-03-14 · Desert Island Discs · Duncan Bannatyne · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, very different on Joan's fortieth birthday she wanted me to hire someone really special and we hired Human League. We have a big warehouse beside my office.”
2010-03-14 · Desert Island Discs · Duncan Bannatyne · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, by the time I left home in Watashi bedroom house and my father is still working fifty or sixty hours a week to keep the house together. We didn't have a car so it was relatively poor, but you have the riches of your family and everybody around you but after spending five years as a prisoner war, he was determined that he was going to find a woman fall in love, get married, have children and create a family. And that's what he did. It was a great achievement.”
2010-03-14 · Desert Island Discs · Duncan Bannatyne · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I think it was something to do with after the war, and everybody was slutted into class and he was working class, and if you weren't proud of it meant that you were ashamed of it, so you wanted to be proud of it, and he was very, very proud of it.”
2010-03-14 · Desert Island Discs · Duncan Bannatyne · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh yeah, and I was very, very determined. I mean, Helen and her husband you could buy what you call an apartment, and you could get a three year mortgage, so she'd bought over three years and then sold it, and that was the money she was using to go to Toronto, and she was going to have a life at that. And she would have had a great life. And my father was very, very proud to be in working class and felt we should always stay working class, so I was a sort of revolt, if you like, against what my father wanted”
2010-03-14 · Desert Island Discs · Duncan Bannatyne · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source