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Joanna Lumley

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2007-05-13
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2007-05-13
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  1. “Lettuce Lettuce and Rodround cheese. And funnily enough you don't the thing I missed the least was newspaper and news not hearing bad news every day was quite incredible, and you suddenly start finding that everything good in the world you listen for bird song and you look at things, you sit and appreciate things, but I work jolly hard because a lot of the day was spent actually surviving.”

    2007-05-13 · Desert Island Discs · Joanna Lumley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “Very good, because I'm quite an old toughy at heart, so I don't mind roughing it. So I slept in a cave, I don't mind about not wearing makeup. I like not having to change my clothes or care about things like that. Why?”

    2007-05-13 · Desert Island Discs · Joanna Lumley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “They in fact had so miscalculated the food thing they gave me a pound of rice in a bag uncooked rice, and that was it, and I was on the island for nine days. They thought the island be dripping with fruit, but they've been a late monsoon and all the bananas weren't pollinated, all the mangoes and things if there had been any dropped the ground and rotted. There was nothing to eat, actually, except my rice, and I had to purify the water on fires which I had to light with a flint, and because the wood was wet I had to throw it took forever getting a little tin can I wasn't allowed a spoon or a fork or a dish I had to eat out of shells with shells I lived like an animal actually I didn't have no soap or comb or mirror or had nothing to read, nothing to listen to so it was animal living on the island really fantastic”

    2007-05-13 · Desert Island Discs · Joanna Lumley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “Well, it was bizarre the BBC said to me What about putting Patsy on a desert island with no vodka? And I said it might not last a whole programme because it'd be funny for about, you know, five minutes. But what about me going on a desert island and really trying to tough it out? And they gave me terribly little. I was trained for a bit with the Irish guards, and I was given a sort of SAS handbook on the to extract water from socks or something, and I was sent off to this desert island. There was a tiny skeleton crew about five people who lived on a diving boat which would arrive every morning on the island at about seven o'clock, film me during the day and then go away again in the evening.”

    2007-05-13 · Desert Island Discs · Joanna Lumley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “Having been on a desert island, I do know what it's like waking up, going through the day, having the long urs of being alone and having to search for wood and going to sleep in the evening, and so partly I structured this music to take me through the day on a real desert island, and I thought to wake up to Wagner and his Tanhoiser overture is absolutely beautiful, it really I think because the record I had when I was at school had pictures of mountains on it, and I had door mountains and the idea of waking up to this sound and the idea of mountains is just blissful.”

    2007-05-13 · Desert Island Discs · Joanna Lumley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “Well, I've been there since I was 18. I mean, I've always, always longed to be older, and I've always been so old that you can hardly speak about me. I'm sixty-one. And age doesn't really matter to me. I mean, people I think are much more exercised about your age than you really are. I mean, I think it's just terribly funny to be able to muck around with age. And also in Abfab, we went back to Patsy when she was very young. We went back to Eddie and Patsy at school. It was brilliant.”

    2007-05-13 · Desert Island Discs · Joanna Lumley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “Yes, that was lovely. Were you comfortable with that? Oh, absolutely, no, essential. It was essential that you draw on things like that. And the fashion world adored it because it was just dead right, you know.”

    2007-05-13 · Desert Island Discs · Joanna Lumley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  8. “I knew it was a bang to rights winner, but I didn't know if I was right for it because I just kind of couldn't seem to get the handle of it. And Jennifer's quite a shy person and quite kind of remote to speak to. So when I went to do a reading with her, and John Ploughman, who is the producer, I found myself sort of swimming around in the dark a bit, and I went home and called my agents that I think you might have to get me out of this because I'm not sure I'm the right person. I mean, they seem to have cast me. They're probably too nice to sack me, so I ought to sack myself. My agent just said, Oh, look, it's only a pilot. You know, just do it. So I did, thank the great next extract.”

    2007-05-13 · Desert Island Discs · Joanna Lumley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  9. “Well, she didn't really emerge until sort of episode two or three, and even Nadina wasn't as kind of wild. They both grew like ghastly sort of septic funguses in the corner, you know, they just got worse and worse, and Patsy's hair got taller and taller, and the smoking became more and more obsessive until they were on about one hundred twenty a day, their language got fouler, their behaviour got worse, but it kind of grew out of it. It grew out of performance, really.”

    2007-05-13 · Desert Island Discs · Joanna Lumley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source