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Jimmy Mulville

lines on the record: 55
first: 2010-08-01
most recent: 2010-08-01
sittings or episodes: 1
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“Well, I think I choose the one that would give me that moment of reflection to look back on my life and to feel that sense of gratitude, and I choose John Lennon in my life.”
2010-08-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jimmy Mulville · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Okay, what people are now probably laugh at this, but I don't want to be entirely chilled out on the island, so I'm going to take a solar powered expresso machine with a limitless amount of good coffee. So I feel edgy on the island.”
2010-08-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jimmy Mulville · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, looking through my list of discs, clearly there's a lot of sadness there, a lot of reflection looking backwards. I quite like feeling melancholic, but I do want to hear laughter on the island. So I've chosen the complete works of PG Woodhouse because That's a right of the can take me into a world of blandings, castles, or Jesum Worcester, and literally make me laugh out loud in a public place, so I would want him on my daughter with me.”
2010-08-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jimmy Mulville · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, it's the Rolling Stones, and I've chosen this disc because it does remind me that sometimes in my life I haven't got what I've wanted, which I find terrible when I don't go what I want, I live through the pain of that, and sometimes I do get what I need. And that's a more valuable experience. So this is the Rolling Stones singing You can't always get what you want.”
2010-08-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jimmy Mulville · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I realise life is fragile, it's also very, very short. And I think that on the desert island I'd have a lot of time to look back on my life and to be grateful, really. I mean, I'm enormously grateful. I am one lucky SOB when I think of where I could be and where I am now. You know, I can on Father's Day I had Joe and George and Jack jumping on me at seven AM. They just piled on top of me and Karen took a picture of us all. And I've got this picture and it's just, I think, how lucky am I really? It's a bit soppy, but I think about those things on my island, that if this was the end of my life, I'd like to look back on a life that I think I'm very pleased that I've had it.”
2010-08-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jimmy Mulville · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I did have moments of feeling sorry for myself, and there's a moment when my wife caught me in the kitchen, sort of staring off into the middle distance, and she knew I was sort of planning my funeral in that moment. And she quite rightly said to me, you know something Yes, you might die. But I'll be here with three children. So, you know, snap out of it, and she was quite right to do that, I think”
2010-08-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jimmy Mulville · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I First of all, you're in shock. You know, for her it was a terrible moment because she was hearing that her second husband, her first husband died of cancer when she was very young, and he was very young, and here she's hearing the same thing again. So for her it was a very difficult time. But the news very quickly became better news, and the prognosis became better and better, and I realized that actually, you know, with a bit of luck, it was going to be fine. I mean, I have to say it was pretty terrifying too, and I think people project onto your being brave when all you're doing, all I was doing was I was doing as I was told by the experts.”
2010-08-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jimmy Mulville · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It was about eight years ago and I was had a lump in my neck and as a non smoker I ignored it to begin with and several teams of doctors ignored it. I am a fully paid member of the hypochondriac society. In the end I sort of insisted, got it checked out, and it was indeed cancerous. It was a lymph gland that had gone cancerous, and then thereafter I have to say, I was put into the hands of a brilliant man called Peter E Sevens at the Marston, who found out where the primary tumour was in my tonsil. It's quite rare. which they removed, and they stripped out some limb glands they radiated me, and that was eight years ago, and all's been well since, but I was lucky.”
2010-08-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jimmy Mulville · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So the second beetles track I can't be the only stroppy scouser on the island, and I think this track is When I'm sitting there and I will look back is that I'd love to have this track playing while I think of all the people in my life who've meant a lot to me. Not clearly my wife and my kids, but also people I have a very special group of friends who meet virtually every week and we talk about things. It's like food to me. I love a good conversation and I'd miss that on a desert island. So I think this track would remind me of those moments when I've enjoyed those conversations”
2010-08-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jimmy Mulville · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He left, yes. Yes. Yes It wasn't a moral judgment at all. He was a fantastic host of that show. But because of the revelations about his personal life, he was wounded as the host. It was a big thing, you know, even on thought for the day. I remember having a shave that week, living through the kind of the media, it was on the news. I thought, oh, I have a quiet shave before I go back into the kind of maelstrom of this. And it was the Reverend Ubidoo from Birmingham saying, well, this week of course Angus Deaton, I can't believe it. Someone's drawing some kind of moral sucker from Angus's plight unthoughtful for the day. I couldn't escape it.”
2010-08-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jimmy Mulville · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“three hundred and fifty years, I think now. I mean Ian and Paul are cryogenically reconstructed every week Twenty years now unbelievable”
2010-08-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jimmy Mulville · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Never mind going to the office with them every day. How did you swing that one? Well, when we decided to the marriage was over, neither of us wanted to leave Hatrick. So we stared at each other across the table seeing who was going to blink first. And when it was decided that neither of us was going to leave Hatrick, we then had to get down to it. And it needed to renegotiate our relationship. But it wasn't easy.”
2010-08-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jimmy Mulville · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Life was good. And it's quite common, I think, that. Dennis and I were running hat trick by now, and the truth is that Hatrick was put together in nineteen eighty five by Denise with Rory McGrath and myself, but she was the kind of genius behind it really. And so we were a very close couple. We worked together, we lived together. Then when I got sober, I think, and it happens to lots of couples, the dynamic changes in the relationship.”
2010-08-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jimmy Mulville · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This is the only classical piece I have, and my wife can introduce me to this piece of music, and I have to say it is one of the most profound live experiences I've ever had anywhere in a concert hall. I don't believe in God, but this almost makes me want to believe. It's called the Resurrection It's Marl of Second Symphony. I'm very interested in resurrection in a secular way about the idea that you can actually let something die and something will renew itself. I think that's the journey of life for me. Out of terribly tumultuous music full of turmoil comes this fantastic choral piece at the end, which if it doesn't make you cry not human.”
2010-08-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jimmy Mulville · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We're there, yes. What happened to me was I basically broke down one day and began to tell the truth which then you experienced Because I basically gave people a version of me that I thought they'd want, as opposed to the real me.”
2010-08-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jimmy Mulville · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, the average is like six weeks. As in for thirteen weeks. I had a carapace around me. And the carapace was held together by an easy charm and naked aggression, and depending on what mood I was in you get either one or the other. But once you took away the drink and the drugs, you took away my medicine, and then you were left with me in the raw, and you put me in a treatment centre for a certain amount of time, and I'm going to crack and I cracked.”
2010-08-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jimmy Mulville · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, everyone else is doing it too. I got my first job. Griffrees, Jones and Mellsmith are very kind to me and said, look, do you want to come and produce a show? It was called The Last Smith and Jones in those days. and I was away filming in Newbury when I had my first taste of it, and fell in love, completely fell in love with it.”
2010-08-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jimmy Mulville · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yep, no, I was introduced to cocaine when I was twenty seven, and I thought well how can I possibly have a problem aged twenty seven? I can handle this.”
2010-08-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jimmy Mulville · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes Yes, in 1987, Denise Adony and I got married in a kind of dry patch and I was desperately trying not to drink. And in the end, it all fell apart in nineteen eighty eight, and I just completely fell off the wagon.”
2010-08-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jimmy Mulville · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I think once you've got that about yourself, you don't permanently go around in a rage. I think it's like. It's like I discovered that I had a drinking problem that I was an alcoholic, and the paradox is I don't drink anymore.”
2010-08-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jimmy Mulville · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, no, we were all cloistered on the corridor at sixteen Langham Street. The corridor was very interesting because there was the fire door halfway down and this side of the fire doors there was a rather genteel prodisorial environment where people were doing things like Brain of Britain and lovely kind of light dramas and music programs. And then beyond the fire door were the maniacs. There was Douglas Adams who had just written Hitchhigger's Guide to the Galaxy. There was Griffre Stones, John Lloyd was doing the news quiz. And at the far end there was a little room and they put me in there with Rory McGrath and Guy Jenkin on a writer's bursary. And that's where we were, all locked in together and we had a fantastic time. We didn't realise at the time what a great time we were having really.”
2010-08-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jimmy Mulville · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“squeeze, and it's up the junction, it reminds me of when I first moved to London and began to run around London having a pretty good time, meeting some really interesting people and I got a job at the BBC as a BBC radio writer then producer and long evening spent in the horse and groom and then off for a curry putting the world to rights.”
2010-08-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jimmy Mulville · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think that for many, many years I was in denial about how I felt about it, to be honest, and that's when my own kind of drinking and drug using in my twenties really took off. I remember on the anniversary of his death I would just get completely wasted and usually either pick a fight or do something inappropriate. I was very angry for a long time. Really, really angry that he could leave myself and my mum, and for a long time I was very angry, and then once the anger lifts, of course, there's just this tremendous sadness. And you just want to stop people in the street saying, why are you buying those clothes? Why are you getting on that bus? Don't you realise my father's died? So it was a huge change for all of us, really.”
2010-08-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jimmy Mulville · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My father in law, who very bravely called me, and he immediately, immediately, I said to my dad, isn't it? He said yes. I said he's dead, isn't he? And I went home that night in a daze, and that's when I found out.”
2010-08-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jimmy Mulville · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He recovered from the paralysis. It's a very bleak prognosis. He had to leave his job. It was only forty eight by this time, and he lasted for a year.”
2010-08-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jimmy Mulville · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“and I know this having been ill myself is that for some reason you think it's your fault. And I could see that the fact it couldn't shake my hand was breaking his heart. It was an awful, awful time because my dad was always just this very vibrant, funny. rather challenging man, and there he was this kind of just this like lost little boy in the bed.”
2010-08-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jimmy Mulville · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“During my finals I was ringing up home regularly, and my father was never there, and my dad used to work shifts. And then when the finals were over, Cambridge was over, rang up mum, and said they're over she burst into tears and said, Your dad's very ill in hospital. But he insisted on not telling me during my exam, so he'd been ill for three weeks and he had this terrible virus called transverse myelitis, which came upon him like a flu and rendered him paralyzed, and then when the feeling came back his whole nervous system was decoded. I drove back that night and went to see him, and I instinctively just put my hand out to shake his hand and he couldn't move because he was paralyzed. I remember the... It was a look of shame on his face”
2010-08-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jimmy Mulville · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Right. Yeah, I did a very Liverpool thing really. I'd met somebody when I was nearly 15 in the school play and she became my childhood sweetheart, Julia. Looking back, you know, it probably was a mistake to get married so young. But at that stage in my life, I was right about everything. I couldn't be wrong about anything, and the more my parents said this is a mistake, that was just further evidence that I was right And I was quite a compulsive, I like to say spontaneous, but actually I was quite compulsive. I had to do that. I then marshall the arguments why I should do that.”
2010-08-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jimmy Mulville · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Okay, one of the benefits about being on a desert island, I suppose, would be that I won't have to worry about what I look like. And the Mark Twain quote dance like no one's watching, sing like no one's listening and love like you've never been hurt I think I could do two of those things, and I think on this island I need something to get off my backside and just dance. I think I could just go berserk on the island, and that's why I want something very kind of get up and go, and so I've chosen David Bowie and the gene.”
2010-08-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jimmy Mulville · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“miserable about that really, and then someone knocked at my door one night and I opened the door. This guy said, Is Jimmy Marville? I said, Who wants to know? He said, Well, I'm doing a play, and it's written by the scaffold, so I'm looking for somebody with an authentic Liverpool accent. And I said, oh yeah, okay, I'm Jimmy Melville, and I got a part in a play called The Puny Little Life Show, written by Roger McGoff. When somebody from the footlights was in the audience and saw it, and then said, Oh, do you want to be in the footlights? And then that was it.”
2010-08-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jimmy Mulville · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, no, no. I was terrified of doing anything in the first year. And I just thought, oh my God, these people are just so with it and I'm so not with it. And I didn't act or write or do anything for a year.”
2010-08-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jimmy Mulville · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We go out with my friends to a pub, and we'd all get drunk, and on one night I got home with my mum, and I realised my dad wasn't there. Oh, where's Dad gone? So I start looking for my dad, and I went to a manual where we'd been having a drink, and I wandered around Emmanuel where all my friends were, Rory McGrath was there, Griffiths, Jones was there, David Hughes was there, and I could hear a very familiar voice singing at the top of his voice in a college room. I went in, my father was still on the table singing some terrible old Irish song with my friends, absolutely enthralled by this man, who was just charming them, and as the sun, you are very easily embarrassed by your parent. And I think I just thought, Dad, what are you doing? But they loved him. They loved my dad.”
2010-08-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jimmy Mulville · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, yeah, I thought they'd burst, they'd come down, they'd visit. And they were in awe. I mean, very quickly when you get to be a student, you get over it, the place, you get into the life. You stop standing back in awe. But they were in awe of it, really”
2010-08-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jimmy Mulville · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Done about that. I mean, I think there were still colleges that were very, very public school orientated. The junior common room in those days was headed up by no other than Jeff Hoon, our ex-minister for defence.”
2010-08-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jimmy Mulville · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The next disc is the Beatles inevitably coming from Liverpool. The Beatles was the soundtrack to my youth. I could have taken the whole of Abbey Road, but I've chosen this because well it makes me cry actually.”
2010-08-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jimmy Mulville · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“virtually every year, and every time we go into an ancient theatre, he insists on standing up and reciting either Osimandias or a piece from the Iliad, and it gets an interesting reaction from the German tourists in their caguls.”
2010-08-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jimmy Mulville · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, like every nineteen year old young man I just left school, probably without a thank you or whatever, and many, many years later, I decided to get in touch with them again, and he was delighted to hear from me after all these years, and the voice was still the same, and I went to see him, had dinner with him and his wife, and my PE teacher, Mr Lang, who I also loved, and his wife. And then an idea framed in my mind, and I a bit later said to him, Look, you know, I missed a school trip to Rome in nineteen seventy one two. I missed a school trip that summer. I said I'd quite like to have my school trip with you again. So that year we went to Rome, and he did the school trip. He gave me the information pack. The following year we did Pompeii, and then we did Athens and Delphi, and I'm hoping our next trip might be to Jordan.”
2010-08-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jimmy Mulville · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It was just the grandeur, the beauty, the student lolling about the place, the atmosphere it just inspired me. And on the way back I said to Mr Cashin in the school minibus. So how do you get there then, sir? And he fixed me with his gaze and said, Well, Molly, you have to work very, very hard to get there. I remember telling to Dave and saying, should we do that then? And Dave went. David was also an only child, and by then was like my brother. We would revise together, so every evening, more or less every evening we'd fire questions at each other. It was like a kind of my magnificent obsession, really.”
2010-08-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jimmy Mulville · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, no. But we like the idea of going on a school trip. The effect it had on me was I never had before seen a place like Cambridge. I kept touching the buildings, expecting to be like a film set.”
2010-08-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jimmy Mulville · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yet when I was thirteen Mr Cashin decided to take us all down to Cambridge to see the Greek play which was performed by students in ancient Greek and it's a bit of a”
2010-08-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jimmy Mulville · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, and this man his name is Douglas Cashing, and he was a classics master, and he's teaching Latin and Greek in a Liverpool comprehensive in the sixties. I mean, that's unbelievable, isn't it? Yeah. When you think about it nowadays, as he approached my best friend, my oldest friend, David Hughes, and I, and another chap called Al Radcliffe, and said, Look, you three, you're quite good at Latin. How about trying ancient Greek? We thought ancient Greek. And we did everything.”
2010-08-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jimmy Mulville · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I do a bit, I look at them sometimes how they interact, and it's kind of baffles me now I'm sort of like a scientist looking at some kind of experiment being unfolding in front of me. They're very close. I do like that feeling that they'll have each other forever.”
2010-08-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jimmy Mulville · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“When I was Telpe this story that I met my three sons who were born in our house actually, and I knew I was their daddy, but actually with Paige. When I first met Paige, she knew I was their daddy, and there was no getting out of it. And, you know, she and I had a fantastically interesting relationship. She was three then. She's 20 now. I used to sing this song to in the car, a full blast, she'd sing along with me at age thirteen or fourteen when she was getting to Eminem, she tapped me on the shoulder one day and said Don't sing it anymore. And part of me died. Then when she heard I was coming on this program, I got an immediate text saying, oh, by the way, don't forget that some more is a very important song to you.”
2010-08-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jimmy Mulville · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“When I met my wife Karen, she had a daughter, Corpaige, who was three, and she lost her father when she was eighteen months old. And it was decided we had been seeing each other for a couple of months that I should meet Paige, and I met Paige in an ice cream parlour on the King's Road, beautiful, sunny day in June, and this little thing turned up in a wonderful little dress with her hair in ribbons, and I could tell Karen was quite nervous about sort of the first meeting. I was quite nervous, and I said to her, Paige, hi, do you want an ice cream? Karen died at the table and said, I don't think she knows what she's saying. She then repeated it and”
2010-08-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jimmy Mulville · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, we're going to hear Dean Martin slur his way through Thatamore. It reminds me of my dad at weekend he was Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra all rolled into one and would sing these songs at family parties and he'd sing it into the eyes of my mother who, depending on the mood she was in would either laugh along with him or tell him to shut up you're drunk but also there's a very specific reason that I'm picking this is that”
2010-08-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jimmy Mulville · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, I mean, I knew I was in the full glare of my parents' love. I knew that they loved me. Unfortunately, I was good at school, so I delivered a bit for them, you know? I was good at school. I had a very good education. I mean, in 1966, when I first went to my secondary school, Ulsop, and I had one particular teacher around called Mr. Cashing, who spotted that I was quite good at Latin, and then convinced me to do ancient Greek. So by the age of thirteen, I was doing probably more periods of ancient Greek and Latin than I was of maths and English.”
2010-08-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jimmy Mulville · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Was a bit weird, and I think my mother tried to have children and then my grandmother was killed in a car accident and my mother, I think, took that very badly. So no other children arrived. Did you see?”
2010-08-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jimmy Mulville · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And typically he was a man who had a kind of anger in him. He was bright, he was funny, he was quick to temper, he had an overdeveloped sense of personal outrage, a bit like me.”
2010-08-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jimmy Mulville · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“and silver service and just clinking teacups. and she come home and tell stories about the girls in work, and I would say the girls in work are about sixty five each June. These are not girls.”
2010-08-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jimmy Mulville · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, yes, it was very posh in those days. It was the kind of John Lewis shop called George Henry Lee's. And I remember Dad and I used to go and have these things called open sandwiches. Ah, the height of Mr. Kissing, yes. Oh my God, having prawn open sandwiches”
2010-08-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jimmy Mulville · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source