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Felicity Green

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first: 2011-04-17
most recent: 2011-04-17
sittings or episodes: 1
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“Well, I think it has to be the Buena Vista Social Club because its memories are so poignant for me if I have that one with me I'll keep moving to music until my boat comes home.”
2011-04-17 · Desert Island Discs · Felicity Green · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, I didn't think you would let me. So, what I've got, my flat is full of pictures and sculptures And I would like to take one with me that is my favourite, and it's by Giles Penny, and it's about eighteen inches high, and it's two men on a bench, it's in bronze, and every time I pass them I stroke their heads.”
2011-04-17 · Desert Island Discs · Felicity Green · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I am a Sondheim fan, and a book has just been published. It's called Finishing the Hat, and it's all Sondheim's lyrics. I would love that book because every time I read his lyrics I can hear the music in my head, so that's my book it weighs a ton.”
2011-04-17 · Desert Island Discs · Felicity Green · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, the final piece of music reminds me of my husband because when we had friends to supper, I was writing a cookery column, among other things, and I became a really good cook, simple cook, like my clothes, very simple, and Geoffrey used to do the washing up, and I used to go to bed, and I used to listen to him because while he was doing the washing up, this was the piece of music that he always played, so I went to sleep, listening to spring, and I can hear Geoffrey clashing the plates.”
2011-04-17 · Desert Island Discs · Felicity Green · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think I'll hate it, and I'll look for passing boats in case somebody lifts me off this island, but I'll do my best. I will do my best, and I've got lovely music to listen to.”
2011-04-17 · Desert Island Discs · Felicity Green · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, I actually stopped writing, I always loathed writing. I was a very prolific writer. I'm a very fast writer and I can only write long hand. But I've always hated writing, and a number of people, kind people have said you've got to write a book. I absolutely have no intention ever of writing a book. I can't think it will probably sell two and a half thousand copies if I'm lucky writing for pleasure or publication. No, not now, not ever.”
2011-04-17 · Desert Island Discs · Felicity Green · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, what happened was they heard about my daily mirror cuttings book, and they're a pile as high as I am, and looking through them they're quite extraordinary. Anyway, somebody told somebody at the Vienna, and they would like them for their archive. And I'm very thrilled about that, as you can imagine. I mean, it's a lovely thing to happen.”
2011-04-17 · Desert Island Discs · Felicity Green · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“People that you're teaching. Well, all I can say is I'm eighty four years old, I don't feel eighty four years old, and some days I don't even look eighty four years old. So no, I don't think there will be a gap between.”
2011-04-17 · Desert Island Discs · Felicity Green · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I've been a Barbara Streizadan fan ever since her first musical in New York, but the record I've chosen is something that for me combines all my enthusiasms. It's the film again called the Way We Were And it was Barbara Streisan at her most Streizan best and opposite Robert Redford if you're after beauty they don't come more beautiful than Robert Redford as a naval officer in his naval whites. Of the way we were”
2011-04-17 · Desert Island Discs · Felicity Green · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well my father never really knew about my career'cause he died much, much earlier than my mother. My mother was so intensely proud of me I thought she would burst. I was her life. I mean I was just everything she lived for all my life and all her life.”
2011-04-17 · Desert Island Discs · Felicity Green · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I reckoned being responsible for another person's happiness and future I just think I couldn't handle it. I just believed I didn't have enough within me to hand on to a child.”
2011-04-17 · Desert Island Discs · Felicity Green · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I can't answer that question because I was never convinced I would be a good mother and I'm still not entirely convinced I would have been a good mother”
2011-04-17 · Desert Island Discs · Felicity Green · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, this is a confession. I never wanted children. Absolutely not. I just didn't enjoy my own childhood. I didn't see any point. I wasn't sure I'd make a good mother. No, no, and I had my job, which filled my life. And that was fine. I never regretted that what has happened to me now is as crossed between a comedy and a tragedy. I miss having grandchildren so badly I can hardly bear it. When I'm with friends of my age or even younger, and they either produce the grandchildren or photographs of these wonderful children, I can hardly prevent crying. So I mean there's nothing I can do about this, but I find it tragic and amusing. I mean, honestly, what was I up to?”
2011-04-17 · Desert Island Discs · Felicity Green · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, love for me that's totally true. It was true when he died and it's been true ever since in fact I'm now incredibly busy, and I value time on my own, but at the beginning I wasn't very good at it.”
2011-04-17 · Desert Island Discs · Felicity Green · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He was more than relaxed he was unfailingly proud and supportive. He gave up work where he was in the cigar business, and he spent the rest of his life he died nineteen years ago, looking after me. I mean there are husbands who resent a successful wife. There was never a trace of resentment it was total support and amusement, and he was just a wonderful husband.”
2011-04-17 · Desert Island Discs · Felicity Green · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well what's next is Pergales' stub at martyr. I've been a film fan all my life I always will be and I went to see a French Canadian film about which I remember nothing but I remembered this piece of music and every time I listened to it it raises my spirits and I think two female voices when they're wonderful singing together have a special thrill for me.”
2011-04-17 · Desert Island Discs · Felicity Green · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, it was a really sad. I'd been a director for five years. I discovered that I was earning fourteen thousand a year and the new director was on twenty eight, and I was so outraged at this that I thought I don't want to be here. This is not right, and I'd been offered a job for about the last ten years by Vidal Sassoon, whom I'd known since we were both about eighteen. So I phoned about and said if you want me to go and work for you, I'll come.”
2011-04-17 · Desert Island Discs · Felicity Green · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, I do. I mean, I don't believe women were one or the other at that time, so many of them were embracing the new ideas, meanwhile wearing their miniskirts, meanwhile being modern women. The mirror embraced all those important social changes in women's lives for their”
2011-04-17 · Desert Island Discs · Felicity Green · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was wearing miniskirts, and we went to lots of clubs, and the fashion scene was so exciting and I went to all the new little boutiques in Carnaby Street. For me it was the most exciting thing not only in my life but in the world's life, Britain's life”
2011-04-17 · Desert Island Discs · Felicity Green · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“She invented Bieber. I mean, it wasn't there yet. But when the dress came in, I was so absolutely smitten by it I decided to do it big, and I was sent for by the advertising director and Hugh Cudlip to say we're worried about this foreign person you're giving all this space to in the Daily Mirror. How do you know she won't run off with our reader's money? And I said with rather more confidence than was justified I know she won't run off with the money, and if she does, I'll replace it. I think I was earning twenty pounds a week at that time.”
2011-04-17 · Desert Island Discs · Felicity Green · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I thought we'd sell three thousand, and so Barbara and her husband Fitz ordered enough Pink Gingham to make three thousand.”
2011-04-17 · Desert Island Discs · Felicity Green · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Record number five Well, I was on the mirror when the Beatles were born and they went from nowhere to everywhere, but along the way the mirror was doing one of their amazing promotions fun and important and I can remember one day in the news conference Hugh Cunt said to me Who are these debutants that keep having balls? We're going to give a daily mirror. We're going to give a ball for the char ladies of Britain and that's what we did. Our cabaret was silla black singing shout and the Beatles.”
2011-04-17 · Desert Island Discs · Felicity Green · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, he was the best tabloid journalist ever, and he created a mirror with real excitement and also for me a social conscience. We cared about people. We tried to make the government operate in a sympathetic sensible, successful way. It was like working for I don't know across between a stript artist and a priest. I mean it really did everything for me in the right way.”
2011-04-17 · Desert Island Discs · Felicity Green · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Fortunately I didn't have to, and the poem was wonderful, and she wrote me a poem to thank me, and I've lost it, which is really, really sad.”
2011-04-17 · Desert Island Discs · Felicity Green · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That was the most extraordinary thing I was working for Phillius Digby Morton. She said to me, Will you come to dinner? We're giving a dinner for Harold Wilson at that time was head of the Board of Trade, and his wife Mary, and we'd love you to join us for dinner. Well, I was deeply honoured I couldn't imagine why, but thank you I would love it. And then she said I'd like you to give Mary Harold's wife a home poem. What? I'd never given anybody a home perm except myself, and it was a bit of a risk to say I was frightened is nothing like I was terrified, and I can remember going into the bathroom and opening this box which was made of recycled cardboard in those days, and vividly I can see it now inside the lid it said in case of emergency phone Kingston.”
2011-04-17 · Desert Island Discs · Felicity Green · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This was the first musical I remember going to, and when we came out and I was drunk with pleasure and sadness, the gentleman we were with said This is ridiculous it'll close in two weeks you can't make a musical about such a sad, sad story. Well everybody knows what happened to West Side story. I think for me the most emotional one in this very emotional story is there's a place for us'cause we all know there isn't.”
2011-04-17 · Desert Island Discs · Felicity Green · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh no, it wasn't in those days it was not clamorous, and my job walking this bloody dog that never wanted to go for a walk and I had to drag it I used to pick it up so nobody knew I was dragging him but I looked and I learned and it took me very little time to know A I wanted to be a journalist and B I wanted to write about fashion”
2011-04-17 · Desert Island Discs · Felicity Green · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Much later. I discovered a magazine called Woman and Beauty. It was so far in advance of its time this was in The Early fifties, and while other magazines were doing knitting patterns to make an egg cozy for Christmas, she was doing virginity, frigidity, relationships, mental problems. I mean, it was amazing, and I thought I want to work for this magazine, and so I wrote her a letter, and I got a reply. And I went to see her, and she talked to me for quite a long time, and then she said I'm going to give you a job. You're going to walk the dog and make the fire we had coal fires in those days, until you are ready to do something better.”
2011-04-17 · Desert Island Discs · Felicity Green · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was the worst pupil Pittman's had ever had, and I still am the worst typist, and it's terrible'cause being a sub edit I have to go back and correct everything. I'm a terrible typist.”
2011-04-17 · Desert Island Discs · Felicity Green · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I have to impress you, Kirsty. I went to Pittman's College and I have at home listened to this a certificate for two hundred forty words a minute, which you can hardly speak to one hundred forty words a minute. It's absolutely impossible to speak But I got a certificate that it was really almost impossible.”
2011-04-17 · Desert Island Discs · Felicity Green · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My mother was ambitious for me. She wanted me to be a shorthand typist and then a private secretary to a very important, nice man. My mother felt I had to learn shorthand typing.”
2011-04-17 · Desert Island Discs · Felicity Green · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“One of my father's virtues was he had a lovely singing voice, and he used to sing this song to me and fact to anybody who listens to me.”
2011-04-17 · Desert Island Discs · Felicity Green · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think I must have been, but I always was wearing something extremely simple. I used to draw my clothes, and we had a fish shop on one side and a barber's shop on the other side of our shoe shop in Dagnam, and the barber's wife was a dressmaker, and so I would take my sketches to Mabel, and Mabel would make my clothes for me, and I reckon I could wear them now.”
2011-04-17 · Desert Island Discs · Felicity Green · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh yes, and my mother would go to the east end to buy a kosher food because she came from a very orthodox family, and my father and I used to go to the pictures. We used to go to two cinemas where they had a double feature film, so every week on a Thursday my father and I went to the pictures, and I became at that age a dedicated, devoted film fan which I still am.”
2011-04-17 · Desert Island Discs · Felicity Green · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It made me feel insecure, it did make me feel insecure. We lived in Dagon. We were the only Jewish family in Dagenham as far as I can remember. I didn't like being Jewish. You know child always wants to be like the other children, and I wasn't like the other children.”
2011-04-17 · Desert Island Discs · Felicity Green · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was an only child, and my role was to make peace between the two of them from an age I can't remember when I started three, I should think. My father had a terrible temper, and my mother was always trying to persuade him, you know, not to ruin the family, not to spend money we didn't have. He was generous to everybody except us. We had a very, very poverty stricken life. So it was a difficult time for me.”
2011-04-17 · Desert Island Discs · Felicity Green · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Not very well my mother was totally deaf, and my father was impatient, and the only way my mother could communicate was lip reading, so I learnt to speak very clearly and very slowly.”
2011-04-17 · Desert Island Discs · Felicity Green · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I loved dancing, and I had broken my knee fifteen years ago which had been badly mended three times, and I haven't been able to dance, and somebody brought me Buena Vista social club, and I suddenly found to my amazement I was dancing, I got up in my living room and I started to dance, and I think if I have this on my desert island I'll be dancing.”
2011-04-17 · Desert Island Discs · Felicity Green · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, never, never, never I decided very early on. that I was not going to join the girls who were joining the boys, I saw too many girls incapable and drunk, and I remember when the chairman who had been an alcoholic and was now teetal, issued an edict of which nobody took any notice, saying there will be no drinking in the Daily Mirror Office at any time and one of the people at the conference said Well, as from next Monday there'll only be two people in the building the chairman and Felicity Green.”
2011-04-17 · Desert Island Discs · Felicity Green · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well it was a wash with booze, it was a wash, every semi senior executive had a refrigerator in his office full of drink, and they would open the bottles after the morning news conference. And then most of them, if not all of them, went out to lunch and had a lot to drink. And then at about two o'clock, as far as I remember, a whole new team came in, who took over because frankly everybody from the morning session was not up to it.”
2011-04-17 · Desert Island Discs · Felicity Green · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think it was personal. I just think they liked girls in skirts. And you know they used to wear a tie saying I am a chauvinist pig that they thought was a huge joke, so I had to pretend I thought it was a huge joke.”
2011-04-17 · Desert Island Discs · Felicity Green · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think quite honestly it took them time I mean the mirror was selling five million copies a day with an overlap at the times at one end and readers who could hardly read at the other so you really cut a path for mask communication so I think they appreciated my journalistic abilities I'm not sure they greeted me with the greatest confidence but honestly Kirsty when you deal with men in situations like I did you learn how to deal with them please believe me the moment I decided to wear skirts I had a much easier time they did not like women in trousers”
2011-04-17 · Desert Island Discs · Felicity Green · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, my men taught the Daily Mirror was a wonderful man called Hugudlip. He was as near to an editorial genius as I have ever encountered, and he sent for me one Friday I'd been on the mirror about fourteen years and said I want you in my office on Monday morning at nine o'clock, and I thought I think he's going to fire me but give me a lot of money to go. He introduced the subject immediately and said right, as from two weeks time you're going to be a director on the main board. We need somebody like you who strange and unexpected things.”
2011-04-17 · Desert Island Discs · Felicity Green · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, this is really quite late in my life, I think the great exciting period of my life was my twenty one years on the Daily Mirror, and I was a woman among men, and I hope I earned their respect and we became really good friends, and at the end of a very hard working day on the mirror, about ten of us used to go to a restaurant called Joe Allen's, and there was a wonderful pianist there, Jimmy, and we used to stand round the piano and sing, and then we could each choose our favourite songs, and my favourite song was their playing songs of love but not for me. And now he doesn't see very well, so he doesn't see me coming in, and I still go there, so I give him a cuddle, and he recognizes my voice and he plays their playing songs of dove, but not for me.”
2011-04-17 · Desert Island Discs · Felicity Green · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm a very, very visually orientated person. I love looking at beautiful things, beautiful people beautiful vistas somewhere in the world. I don't know how old I'll be when I die, but I'm not going to be wearing beige all the time.”
2011-04-17 · Desert Island Discs · Felicity Green · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My stan as there lift is wonderful I had to sign a letter of indemnity that if it caught fire it was my fault, not Stana, and I got some fabric I'd had from Paris oh I don't know twenty years it's a black and grey zebra stripe which is wonderfully smart and everybody admires it and the engineering up the stairs I could choose between peach pale blue or cream and I said I wanted black They nearly fainted and said If I changed my mind once they'd painted it black I would I would have to pay for redoing it and it would be a thousand pounds.”
2011-04-17 · Desert Island Discs · Felicity Green · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, I think I inherited it from my mother who had a very kind of difficult life she never could indulge herself. I think she first introduced me to minimalism. Don't try to hard, just make do with your looks, I'm very short I'm now five feet exactly, and I don't try and make an impact with fashion. I think for me and for quite a lot of women, just make yourself look your best and honestly simplicity is the best watchword.”
2011-04-17 · Desert Island Discs · Felicity Green · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I've never been fashionable, I think fashion needs to be followed at a very, very respectful distance, and one of my heroines fashion heroines was Jean Muir, and Jean Muir dresses were practically invisible. They were expert dressmaking designing. No one ever said what a wonderful dress they always said goodness you look lovely. My blueprint for fashion was to be simple and stylish. Don't follow the ladies fashion, you'll look soppy in a puff ball skirt next year.”
2011-04-17 · Desert Island Discs · Felicity Green · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source