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Janet Street-Porter

lines on the record: 56
first: 2008-11-23
most recent: 2008-11-23
sittings or episodes: 1
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“I think I'm going to take La Russe Gastronomique. That's a great book. It's got lots of descriptions of how to prepare all kinds of food. It's quite a technical book.”
2008-11-23 · Desert Island Discs · Janet Street-Porter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My final track is so sexy, and I remember Otis Fredding the first time I heard him, and then I was lucky enough to go and see him live at Hammersmith Odin as it was then, and all these women ran to the front of the stage and banged their handbags on the ground, and it was an orgasmic moment. And this record just is so sexy.”
2008-11-23 · Desert Island Discs · Janet Street-Porter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, it's a very, very strong personality. I'd say it was pretty difficult living with him too, but we've managed, and also I think that we are not in each other's face the whole time. I need a bit of space.”
2008-11-23 · Desert Island Discs · Janet Street-Porter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I admit that I admit I'm not the easiest person. I live in a very minimalist house that don't like mess. Yeah, they have a corner. I don't like stuff on the walls that I haven't chosen, you know. Yar, it is really hard because men come with droppings, don't they? The detritus of like a bloke. It's you can't control every aspect of it. You have to let a bit go. I do sound really insane now, I realise that.”
2008-11-23 · Desert Island Discs · Janet Street-Porter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, I didn't have a great track record. Actually, why Neil was singing that? I was thinking of all the men I could have said that to be quite a cast list. You know, as I was getting bored with one, I'd have the next one lined up.”
2008-11-23 · Desert Island Discs · Janet Street-Porter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, not really I was married to somebody who had a son who I adored, but the little boy died of stomach cancer when he was eleven and my husband was absolutely devastated by that and if we were going to have children that was the moment and then there was no question after that because if someone you love so much is taken from you he couldn't even be in the room with a child for years after that and I could understand that.”
2008-11-23 · Desert Island Discs · Janet Street-Porter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My next piece of music is a pet shop boy is always on my mind, and I met Neil and Chris first of all when I was producing a kid show for ITV. We had this thing where we asked pop stars to come on the show and put brown paper bags over their heads and the kids had to guess who they were. They just not surprisingly refused to do it. I was in the gallery, you know, the controller and I went, so what's their problem? Why won't they do it? Anyway, eventually they came around to my house for dinner and from the minute they walked through the door, you know, we just hit it off and I guess that was about 1986.”
2008-11-23 · Desert Island Discs · Janet Street-Porter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“after my mother died. You know my sister and I were very different. We didn't agree about most things I don't think sisters. You know, when he said you look back on things, obviously you look back and wish the conversations you could have had with people of not around anymore, but you know what when I'm on a walk sometimes I talk to them anyway because if I believe in an afterlife So what's the problem? You can just have a chat.”
2008-11-23 · Desert Island Discs · Janet Street-Porter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“when my sister was dying of cancer I could have fallen to pieces but I didn't and I was so angry about it and this person who is the closest person to you in the world is dying and it was extraordinary process there's nothing you can do”
2008-11-23 · Desert Island Discs · Janet Street-Porter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Mostly I broke my ankle at the beginning of the summer I was actually hiking in Glencoe in Scotland and I climbed down off the mountain because I didn't want to call Mountain Rescue and make a big fuss about it and then I drove myself to hospital and then drove back home again when they'd set it I'm tough I'm hardcore. You really?”
2008-11-23 · Desert Island Discs · Janet Street-Porter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“What I tend to do is I like walking in really bad weather, rainy, windy, miserable'cause that way you don't see anyone and you're by unattented just walk in a straight line. You're sitting there with your mouth in the shop.”
2008-11-23 · Desert Island Discs · Janet Street-Porter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't even think about it. I certainly don't feel like a pensioner not in any way, shape or form. I think first thing in the morning I probably look a bit rough. Not a lot of people see that”
2008-11-23 · Desert Island Discs · Janet Street-Porter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I've chosen Philip Glass's soundtrack to the cocktail film Beauty and the Beast. Beauty and the Beast is probably my favourite film of all time. Philip Glass takes the film and he wrote an operatic score that fits the movie. It's absolutely mind blowing so it adds another dimension to what is a classic piece of cinema.”
2008-11-23 · Desert Island Discs · Janet Street-Porter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“One could have been right. I'm not losing any sleep over it. I don't look back over my career and think for one minute that there's any part of it that was a bit of a flop. I've had a great career and I'm going to have a great career. Now a pensioner, I'm not going to retire. And spookily enough, I get more offers of work now than I probably did ten years ago.”
2008-11-23 · Desert Island Discs · Janet Street-Porter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think that I wouldn't have been a safe choice people might have thought oh she might fly off the handle she's not diplomatic enough”
2008-11-23 · Desert Island Discs · Janet Street-Porter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Someone had to say it. I mean, it was reported around the world that speech, everywhere from variety to the Hollywood reporter. I was proud of saying that, and it was true for a very long time. I mean, let's be honest, we talk about progress for women, but progress for women is inching along at a snail pace. It's shocking.”
2008-11-23 · Desert Island Discs · Janet Street-Porter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was never going to be controller of BBC One. I did want to be controller of BBC2, but when they go back to Michael Jackson, I thought, well, you know, what the hell? I did feel it was a bit of a man's world and I did feel it was still a bit of a club.”
2008-11-23 · Desert Island Discs · Janet Street-Porter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, with rough guides, I wrote out the format, absolutely wrote out the handbook about how it had to be shot and gave it to the people to do it. I mean, I wrote it and it was as simple as that. It was a style book and I was that controlling. But it did work really well because people kind of got it because before then he'd gone somewhere, he always had Judy's charmers wittering on about, you know, the cheapest hotel or hours of sunshine. And I said, no, let's go to Senegal. Let's go to Jamaica and let's see what the locals do. And it just made a completely different kind of travel program.”
2008-11-23 · Desert Island Discs · Janet Street-Porter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, the information bar across the bottom of the screen. Yeah, music over the back of boring bits and junk cut editing, running two things simultaneously, splitting screens. I mean, I've got a lot of ideas for all of that from people like William Burrows, cut-ups, and also French New Wave films like Chris Marcus Legerte and stuff like that. And I obviously brought all that.”
2008-11-23 · Desert Island Discs · Janet Street-Porter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“the irony of that is that the Daily Mail have serialised all my books I think it's quite an accolade to be considered one of the people that's wrecked Britain I find it bizarre that a kind of television style that I pioneered in nineteen eighty six still permeates television today I find it slightly depressing I'm not thrilled about it I wish someone else had come up with something else”
2008-11-23 · Desert Island Discs · Janet Street-Porter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“While my next piece of music is John Sutherland singing part of the mad scene from Lucia de Lamore. Now, the reason I've chosen this, as a schoolgirl, there were classical concerts for children if you were lucky enough to live in London. Obviously I'm a relentless hoarder and I've got all my diaries and notebooks and letters and everything, but I've got the program for this and the first concert I went to whoever did the programming thought ah Joe Sutherland's in town she can sing the mad song So there was I sitting in the stools of the Royal Festival and on came Joan Sutherland and sang the mad scene from Lucia and it was electrifying.”
2008-11-23 · Desert Island Discs · Janet Street-Porter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, she was appalled, but then I found out that's exactly the kind of thing she'd done in her time. It wasn't that bad.”
2008-11-23 · Desert Island Discs · Janet Street-Porter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, well, I met the man I later married, my first husband at the ICA at an exhibition in London, and I went with my fiancee, and Tim Street pulled me out to dinner and I said, Oh, well, actually I'm engaged, and he looked over and he said, Who is there? And I said, That's him over there, and he said, Well, you know, I said, all right, I'll dump him. That was it.”
2008-11-23 · Desert Island Discs · Janet Street-Porter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But yeah, I was very self contained. I mean, I saying I had not a lot of boyfriends, the ones I had didn't really own me. They knew me.”
2008-11-23 · Desert Island Discs · Janet Street-Porter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, but before I went to architectural college I spent a year my last year at school photographing buildings, drawing them, making notes about them. I was also interested in things like comic strips and stuff like that. So a lot of that informed my work later on in television so you know when I came to do a series like Network 7 in 1986 I did have a big mental library of images and books and stuff to draw on you know I'm not someone who's an intellectual but I've accumulated a lot of experiences and I've also sifted through and sucked out the bits that I need for what I'm doing”
2008-11-23 · Desert Island Discs · Janet Street-Porter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I mean, I didn't have a lot of boyfriends, I met a guy at one of these clubs that I got engaged to who is an architectural student. I think I probably was aware that I looked striking, but I didn't have a huge amount of confidence and when I was of that mixture that you are when you're a teenager, you sneer at so many things, but you're not really confident. It's so hard to explain it.”
2008-11-23 · Desert Island Discs · Janet Street-Porter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I realise now I probably look pretty good for at the time you're so insecure, aren't you? You're racked with anxiety because I was very tall, I was very thin, had the big frilly teeth, but I just kept my mouth shut. Quite a lot. I was smart. That's probably attractive.”
2008-11-23 · Desert Island Discs · Janet Street-Porter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I've chosen a piece by the modern giant's cortex called Cortege. Now from fourteen to eighteen I was three nights a week in clubs and doing loads of exams at school as well, spending an enordant amount of time on public transport, but music was a really big part of my life. The MJQ are so of that period of the end of the fifties and the early sixties they were just so cool.”
2008-11-23 · Desert Island Discs · Janet Street-Porter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“a very rigid uniform, long narrow skirts, very clumpy shoes that you could only get from one or two shops. And I used to spray my hair silver and wear full silashes. My mother looks all completely appalling.”
2008-11-23 · Desert Island Discs · Janet Street-Porter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, by the time I was fifteen I was going I was a mod on Saturday night so I'd go to St Mary's ballroom in Putney and I would generally stay over with my friend from school in Putney.”
2008-11-23 · Desert Island Discs · Janet Street-Porter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I love growing up in Fulham, and then suddenly I was going to be uprooted to the very end of the central line. It might as well have been Mars. The other thing was I still went to school in Fulham, so I spent an hour each way on the underground every day.”
2008-11-23 · Desert Island Discs · Janet Street-Porter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That was shocking. I was sitting at the dinner table one night in Fulham, and my father just announced we were moving to Perivale, Mrs.”
2008-11-23 · Desert Island Discs · Janet Street-Porter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The one thing I don't like doing is looking in the mirror and seeing elements of her She was always completely miserable and upset about her lot in life, and yet what was there to be miserable about? And I suppose the one lesson it taught me is I am not going to grow old and be like that. I'm not going to be an old misery, I'm not going to be sitting at home moping, I'm not going to walk.”
2008-11-23 · Desert Island Discs · Janet Street-Porter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't think she loathed me. I just irritated the hell out of her. I think loathing was probably the wrong word for me to use.”
2008-11-23 · Desert Island Discs · Janet Street-Porter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I do, I do now and you know I love my auntie Fi very much but I had a very very complicated relationship with my mother that I felt that I had to work through and get out of my system. She was proud of me and yet she loathed me. She was jealous of me, she was small minded, she criticised me for being married more than once and then I found her background so extraordinary when I delved into my own mother's past I found that he was the woman who was married to one man who left him for my father and wasn't married when she had me and I mean the words pot and kettle do come to mind her.”
2008-11-23 · Desert Island Discs · Janet Street-Porter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I couldn't, obviously I only did it when she was dead. I mean, I know that sounds a bit of a coward, and it did cause distress to her sister.”
2008-11-23 · Desert Island Discs · Janet Street-Porter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, my next record, I don't even really like very much, but I'm on this desert island and I've got to choose a record that sums up my childhood. So I've chosen a George Fornby track. My parents love this era of, you know, music hall and radio stars. And I can't listen to two bars of this record without remembering everything in Elmstone Road Fulham.”
2008-11-23 · Desert Island Discs · Janet Street-Porter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, it was going rampant by then. I mean, I was. I was going to exhibitions, I was going to museums. I was, you know, a complete self improver.”
2008-11-23 · Desert Island Discs · Janet Street-Porter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh yeah, well I was a bit of a swatch by the time I got to secondary school I did get into grammar school and when I got there I did really enjoy school I've got to be honest I mean it appealed to me there's more things to do more it appealed to the competitive nature I think”
2008-11-23 · Desert Island Discs · Janet Street-Porter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Am I competitive? I remember having to play cards with my fat my father was just about as competitive as I am. I'm sure I got it all from him. My sister and I will be sitting around the table playing this card game for hour on end because that's what we did.”
2008-11-23 · Desert Island Discs · Janet Street-Porter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't think you know whether you're difficult or not, but I was very opinionated. There was a period between primary school and becoming the really rebellious teenager where I was, you know, very self improving. I kept lists of all the books I read. And then as I went through my teenage years, I kept lists of every single film I'd seen, every book I'd read. We didn't have a television till I was fourteen. So we have to play cards. I do remember cards. You could never never.”
2008-11-23 · Desert Island Discs · Janet Street-Porter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, I probably did once please my parents, but there were so many rules in our house. My father was a real stickler for etiquette, my mother had to wear a clean apron for meals, and we were not allowed to leave the table till we'd finished our meal, and I remember my sister used to fill her pockets with the bits of the dinner that she couldn't eat. Yeah, loads and loads of rules. My father used to bark them out, he had a mouth like a letter box, used to just issue orders.”
2008-11-23 · Desert Island Discs · Janet Street-Porter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, I wanted nice middle class parents who lived in Epsom, you know, out there in Green Suburbia and read The Guardian and listened to Radio Forum. I just found my parents quite abrasive. They also didn't really get on that well.”
2008-11-23 · Desert Island Discs · Janet Street-Porter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“for we lived in half a terraced house off the Parsons Green Lane, we were pretty hard out, my father was an electrician and my mother well my first memories as she's working as a school dinner lady and my parents seem to have a relationship which looking back on it was a bit weird. My mother was Welsh and her sister came to live next door to us my Auntie Vi, who I'm still very great friends with and I was obviously a horrible little snob because I used to imagine that they picked up the wrong baby in the nursing home and that the right parents would come and get me. I used to pray for some nice parents to come and get me. What sort of things?”
2008-11-23 · Desert Island Discs · Janet Street-Porter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I've chosen this track by massive attack called Unfinished Sympathy. It just sums up the very, very best of British music of the early nineties. The minute I heard it, it just seemed as good as a classical symphony. It's absolutely heroic.”
2008-11-23 · Desert Island Discs · Janet Street-Porter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I could walk into the room, it's talking to people I'm not interested in. You're just quite the entrance curtie. That's not the problem.”
2008-11-23 · Desert Island Discs · Janet Street-Porter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I am a bit shy and I can't go into a room by myself actually. I do find it quite hard to go anywhere and be kind of exposed.”
2008-11-23 · Desert Island Discs · Janet Street-Porter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“for the public at large. I'm quite a private person and I've got quite a close circle of friends. You know, I'm not going to be going into a room and meeting a lot of people I don't know. So suddenly through TV I've met millions of people, eight million people. So it was an extraordinary feeling.”
2008-11-23 · Desert Island Discs · Janet Street-Porter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yar had tremendous reaction when I came back to Britain after doing the program women would come up to me in the street and just thank me for being on it and not being a kind of bimbo in a bikini and”
2008-11-23 · Desert Island Discs · Janet Street-Porter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I did all the cooking, yeah. I like doing the cooking. Well, the reason why I did the program was because I think before that I was on programs like Questions Time, I was on documentaries. People had one view of me, but I thought I'm not going to be one of those people that just sneer about reality television. I want to get right into the centre of it and see what it's actually like from the inside. You know, there were things about it that drove me completely mad, the endless wittering, you know, the drivel that people talk for hours on end.”
2008-11-23 · Desert Island Discs · Janet Street-Porter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source