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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
sources: podcast

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“Oh no, I like doing programs like that. I mean, the thing is, I am pretty tough. I'm a pragmatist though in any situation I'll work out how to get the best out of it. I'm not a snivel”
2008-11-23 · Desert Island Discs · Janet Street-Porter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm disciplined. I'm very, very disciplined. You know, live TV is one of those things where I left the BBC. I had a fabulous job at the BBC and I went to live TV to set up a digital channel and I built these really groundbreaking studios at Canary Wharf. I took on all this stuff. And yet the management structure of the holding company was problematic. And when it looked like, you know, it was going to go the way that I wasn't comfortable with editorially. I got out. You know, I've got a great sense of getting out and moving on. I mean, I've done it with my marriages and I've certainly done it with my jobs”
2008-11-23 · Desert Island Discs · Janet Street-Porter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, my first choice is a baroque opera by Ramaux Le Boriard. Now I'm a big opera fan while I was at the BBC I produced an opera and I won the Pri Italia for it and my love of opera started as a small child because my godmother had worked at Saddler's Wells and my mother and my godmother used to take me to the opera in the ballet when I was really really small and I remember sitting on the counter of the bar at Covent Garden when I was about eight and they get a pile of cushions for me to sit on at the matinees. So I never regarded operas as an elitist thing. It was something that I just grew up with.”
2008-11-23 · Desert Island Discs · Janet Street-Porter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Life's too short for all of that. I've got no time for all of that. It's just complete rubbish. No, I've always been the way I'm comfortable being. When I went into the media, people talk about role models. I didn't have any bloody role models. There weren't any. So I was a bit adrift, but I kind of got through that.”
2008-11-23 · Desert Island Discs · Janet Street-Porter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yar it doesn't bother me now, but I think that it did bother me in the seventies, and it did bother me in the eighties when I was doing really good work on television, and I felt that it didn't get the recognition at the time. And I felt it was a class thing too. I've got to be honest with you. I have made television that's changed the way that television looks today, and I'm really proud of that. And it was a team effort, and all the people that did that with me have all gone on to be incredibly successful. I mean, they are the media establishment today. So we did change things. But the snobbery of television at the time I went into it, I can't begin to tell you, especially places like the BBC where I went once for a job and the man who has channel controller at the time said to me I had to be retrained in the BBC way of doing things. I think what he meant was, you know, I was common and I wasn't going to.”
2008-11-23 · Desert Island Discs · Janet Street-Porter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, I think when I'm on television now, television at the moment thrives on confrontation and that's what people want to see. Of course I'm not like I am on television at home or you know just going around on a day-to-day basis.”
2008-11-23 · Desert Island Discs · Janet Street-Porter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source