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Jimmy Mulville

lines on the record: 55
first: 2010-08-01
most recent: 2010-08-01
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“They were, and they both worked incredibly hard. My dad was a boiler operator. My mother was a waitress for forty years, and both worked extraordinarily hard. And they played hard at weekends”
2010-08-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jimmy Mulville · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This is a duet, Shane McGann and Kirsty McCall. It reminds me of growing up in Liverpool strangely. My folks were party people, and there's always parties at my house every weekend, lots of drinking, lots of singing, lots of passion, sometimes lots of arguments and comings together and pullings apart, and it was very, very tumultuous. And this song sort of captures it for me. And also, strangely, we sing it every year at Hatrick of a Christmas Carol service, and we all sang Fairy Tale of New York.”
2010-08-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jimmy Mulville · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, I don't. My boyhood dreams to be an actor, and I did that for a while, and then by the early nineties I realised that my acting career was sort of, if you like, flattening out. And Hattrik was incredibly exciting. But I have to say I spent a year contemplating the death of my kind of acting dreams. And what I realized was that the acting dream was being turned into a fantasy, and as a grown man I shouldn't be living in fantasy. But it was so painful I couldn't speak about it to anybody for about a year. I just let it die inside me, and then bit by bit I stopped acting, I turned down a couple of jobs, and made a conscious decision to put my energies into hatch. Every now and again I get an opportunity, I do a little part on Andy Hamilton's old Harry's game, which the radio four show. I play a man in hell who used to run a utilities company and was killed by overtaking in his porsche. And Andy rang me one day. I've written this thing. It's set in hell about the devil with a midlife crisis. There's a guy in it.”
2010-08-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jimmy Mulville · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, it can be. I mean, the truth is there is a kind of Restlessness and malcontent about people in comedy. They want to do things and say something difficult. And if I went to work thinking, I need to work with spiritually balanced people all the time. I wouldn't make any television programs.”
2010-08-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jimmy Mulville · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm afraid I am. Yeah. I think the idea of balance wasn't in the Melville DNA. I think that Someone said there was an instruction manual that came with you and you just didn't bother reading it. And in fact, I never read any instruction manuals for anything. I asked my wife. Right. So a bit like Ozzy Osborne, I'll be confronted by an inanimate object that's just not doing what I wanted to do and I'll shout Car and Karen comes along and she fixes it. She's the handyman in the house.”
2010-08-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jimmy Mulville · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source