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June Spencer

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first: 2010-02-28
most recent: 2010-02-28
sittings or episodes: 1
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“Well, perhaps sometimes I might feel a bit down in the dumps, so I'd like the hallelujah chorus from Handels Messiah, and I would climb up onto the highest point of the island, and I would shout hallelujah, and that'd cheer me up no end.”
2010-02-28 · Desert Island Discs · June Spencer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, oh, she's a wonderful daughter. I remember David saying about her not long before he died, he said She's a wonderful woman and she is she's a darling.”
2010-02-28 · Desert Island Discs · June Spencer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, I think, sir, yes, yes, there aren't enough days in the week for all the things I want to do. I mean, I start at a scrabble club after Roger died, I joined the U three Spanish conversation classes. I had pretty good life.”
2010-02-28 · Desert Island Discs · June Spencer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“in Australia, Russia. Yes, she was supposed to come over my ninetieth birthday, but I sent her a ticket. Something prevented her coming. She's been out there for about three years. I expect I shall see her again sometime. It's too far for me to go, I age.”
2010-02-28 · Desert Island Discs · June Spencer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It was something that you live with every day. is the last thing you think of when you go to bed at night, and it's the first thing you think of in the morning. I used to go over frequently, and he, of course, came over to England, but say he was fighting a losing battle he got wonderful treatment in Germany, which was the reason that he didn't come back to England. I cannot praise highly enough the treatment that he got in Germany.”
2010-02-28 · Desert Island Discs · June Spencer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“he was tall, and he had some very hard choreography lifting, some lifts that he shouldn't have done, and his back gave out, and his feet. When he stopped dancing, his wife, with whom he always danced needed a new partner. So she found a new young dancer, and I'm afraid. The marriage broke up. So David lost his career through having to give up because of his bad back. And lost his wife and his little daughter whom he adored. And I'm afraid he just took a drink. although he didn't enjoy drinking, he couldn't stop sadly eventually, as he knew it would, it killed him”
2010-02-28 · Desert Island Discs · June Spencer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“As he said to me he said I'm an actor without words, and he was he was a wonderful actor. He could make you cry when he danced, and of this particular performance. sitting in the audience, and when he came out to take his solo curtain call My husband said What's that noise? And I said they're stamping for him. Don't bring tears to my eyes”
2010-02-28 · Desert Island Discs · June Spencer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'd like to have the overture to the sleeping beauty by Tchaikovsky, and that is to remind me of the years when Roger Ros and I would go to Germany to see David dance. He was a classical dancer. He was a wonderfully frightening male carabos, and”
2010-02-28 · Desert Island Discs · June Spencer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, yes. Now Roger never did that. He remained good tempered throughout. Sometimes he'd be rather rude to other people which was embarrassing, but he was never as bad as Jack.”
2010-02-28 · Desert Island Discs · June Spencer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, when I'm in the studio, I'm Peggy When I come out I'm me, so there wasn't a conflict in that, sometimes when I listened to it I feel thee I used to feel the poignancy of it.”
2010-02-28 · Desert Island Discs · June Spencer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, they did consult me in the first place. They invited me to a script conference. And they asked me questions. But the scripts have all been so beautifully written I've never wanted to change anything.”
2010-02-28 · Desert Island Discs · June Spencer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, Vanessa was very good Vanessa Whitburner, editor. She asked me how I would feel about it. I said I'm all for it let's give it all the publicity we can, especially the plight of the carers as well to highlight that as well.”
2010-02-28 · Desert Island Discs · June Spencer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'd like to hear, dear old Harry Seacom sing opera. I met him when we did songs of praise in the Balearics. He had a house in Mallorca, and of course I have this one in Menorca, and he and the crew came over, and I said to him You oughtn't sing to me while I'm here, you know? Oh, he said, looking very surprised, so I went and fetched one of my tapes, which was operatic arias, and there was callous and domingo and carreas and secum, and he said Oh I'm in good company”
2010-02-28 · Desert Island Discs · June Spencer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It was a beautiful day lovely spring day in May and all the garden was looking lovely. And I said such a lovely day let's go and have lunch in the garden and I made a nice salad and we had a bottle of chilled white wine. He was very amused, I remember, because I'd put it in a big vase with ice at the bottom. I said that's my wine chiller. He kept on saying, Isn't this lovely? What a lovely lunch. It was such a happy such a happy day.”
2010-02-28 · Desert Island Discs · June Spencer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“ears he began to and noticed it about the time of our golden wedding that his memory was playing him false. and it got steadily worse and worse, and the repetitive question started, which I think is almost the most wearing part of it, because they ask you a question and you answer it, and a few moments later they ask you the same question again”
2010-02-28 · Desert Island Discs · June Spencer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“as I did, there ran rings round me quite honestly, I mean a couple of little devils there really were but absolutely gorgeous.”
2010-02-28 · Desert Island Discs · June Spencer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, in nineteen fifty two, I think it was, we adopted David, who was just a year old, and then two and a half years later we adopted little Ros as well. But when David had settled in, I was able to work at weekends when Roger was with him, so that was all right.”
2010-02-28 · Desert Island Discs · June Spencer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It could be rather yes, especially when a producer would tiptoe into the studio while you were at the microphone actually on air, lean over your shoulder, and with a pencil cut several of the next speeches that you were going to say. and then tiptoe out again. I don't know how we got through, but we did. Great days, great fun.”
2010-02-28 · Desert Island Discs · June Spencer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“For this is to remind me of my bolt hole in Minorca. It's the Adagio from Rodrigo's Concieto de Ranwith, and I've only got to hear it, and I'm sitting on the terrace in the sunshine with the sea lapping the rocks below me.”
2010-02-28 · Desert Island Discs · June Spencer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, it was difficult especially for him, because he'd gone into the army before he'd finished his degree course, and originally he was supposed to go back and finish it, but of course he didn't want to do that. He was twenty six, he was a major, by which time, of course, I was a very busy radioactress, doing very well. So it was difficult for him to adjust. But we'd always been good friends, apart from anything else, you know, so we got on well together, we had fun. So we sort of picked up the threads again.”
2010-02-28 · Desert Island Discs · June Spencer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, I can, yes, I met him at the station. He came in late at night I'd laid our table with all our best wedding presents and everything, all the silver and the glass and everything, and my rations such as they were, I remember a dish with a little bit of butter in it, July. And when he arrived he was absolutely bushed, of course he was so tired. And he said Oh, what a miserable bit of butter. I said that's my whole week's ration He had no idea of what rationing was though.”
2010-02-28 · Desert Island Discs · June Spencer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, well, I was still living at home, until a few months before he was due to come home. Then I broke away and went up to London because I was getting a lot of work in London at that time, and I got a home for him there. It's one great big room, and use of the bathroom two floors up, and that's where all the water came from in a jug, you know, and slopped back in a bucket.”
2010-02-28 · Desert Island Discs · June Spencer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Buses on battle which is to remind me of one of my very earliest broadcasts about the families who work the canal boat, and my father was Wilfrid Pickles, and on the other boat my very bashful boyfriend was dear old Chris Gittens, who was later Walter Gabriel in the Arches.”
2010-02-28 · Desert Island Discs · June Spencer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes it was, yes, I mean he was in uniform, of course, and mother and I went down to Griffin's Bouldings and they had one wedding dress in my size, and it was seven guineas. So I had that and we had a very modest reception, a terrible wedding cake. Couldn't have icing on the cake, you had to have they called it that paper sluff. It looked like rice paper.”
2010-02-28 · Desert Island Discs · June Spencer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Not until nineteen forty two I had lots of other boyfriends and he had other girlfriends. It wasn't until the war and he came home on leave that he caught me in a weak moment and I said yes because originally when we were seventeen on this holiday I'd said to him rather loftily I'll be your girlfriend for the duration of the holiday, but after that finish I can't bear these holiday romances that peter out during the winter. Mallet for fifty nine years.”
2010-02-28 · Desert Island Discs · June Spencer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“When we were both seventeen on holiday in Chapel St. Leonard, which is a little village on the east coast near Skake Note, and my parents used to rent a bungalow for a month, and his parents used to rent a bungalow for a month, and that's how we met.”
2010-02-28 · Desert Island Discs · June Spencer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, not at all it saddened me very much. I kept thinking of my boyfriends who would be called up and going I don't think there was any of the sort of gung ho spirit there was in the First World War.”
2010-02-28 · Desert Island Discs · June Spencer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“the Germans marched into Poland, my mother and I were on holiday in the south of England somewhere. So my father drove down to collect us because the trains were full of little evacues. Going off too they didn't know where their gas masks and their labels, their names say where they were going.”
2010-02-28 · Desert Island Discs · June Spencer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, it was a very second hand rocking horse, I'm quite sure, because my father was earning about I think under four hundred pounds a year at that time.”
2010-02-28 · Desert Island Discs · June Spencer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I had a very happy childhood. I was born in a three story semi detached rented house. I had a day nursery and a night nursery. I was very lucky, and I had a rocking horse which I loved.”
2010-02-28 · Desert Island Discs · June Spencer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I more or less stopped when I had children. Though I did write, this was before the children, though I wrote three satirical feature programs which were broadcast.”
2010-02-28 · Desert Island Discs · June Spencer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Is it once I started it flowed in fact French is published, my book of monologues I used to write for Cyril Fletcher Odd Odes though there's rather saucy odd odes.”
2010-02-28 · Desert Island Discs · June Spencer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You were saying go on, then make us laugh. Were you terrified? No, I wasn't. They were all in a good mood. They'd had a good dinner and a few drinks. They laughed easily.”
2010-02-28 · Desert Island Discs · June Spencer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, I'd always written funny things to amuse myself. My father knew this, and I think he said to somebody, he is my daughter does humorous monologues, and somebody said Oh, well, we have entertainments after dinner at Masonic evenings, would she do that? I just enjoyed doing it, I made them laugh, and that's what I like doing.”
2010-02-28 · Desert Island Discs · June Spencer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I like to be reminded of my wartime years on the run up to the war. My teenage years were a bit muddled, because I left school early to look after my mother, my mother's health wasn't good. At the same time I was just beginning to do the things I really wanted to do. I was studying drama. And at the same time, we young people, we teenagers, we knew that there was a war coming, and the music that brings it back to me most is Fred Astair and let's face the music and dance. It was a rather prophetic lyric and dance we did.”
2010-02-28 · Desert Island Discs · June Spencer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, I think, I don't know when I'm beaten, you see. Well, I love acting so much I'm so lucky to have a job that I can still do. It's a great bonus for me that the archers run as long as it has, and I've gone along with it.”
2010-02-28 · Desert Island Discs · June Spencer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, there were three stages. There was the top rate which I was on because I'd done a lot of broadcasting before the artist started, and that was £12 for five episodes. And the next one was ten pounds and even eight pounds over.”
2010-02-28 · Desert Island Discs · June Spencer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We did a week's trial just to sort of test the water, and that was in nineteen fifty, and then we didn't hear any more until january first the following year nineteen fifty one. And I think we were given a contract for three months”
2010-02-28 · Desert Island Discs · June Spencer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't think Peggy's got a sense of humour, and I hope I have. I think funny things sometimes happen to Peggy, but she doesn't see the funny side of things, I'm afraid.”
2010-02-28 · Desert Island Discs · June Spencer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think sometimes they do, though I don't think we have all that much in common. I love my garden, though I can't do much in it these days, and Peggy loves her garden, and of course both had husbands with dementia. But when people meet me they say, Oh, you look just like I thought you would”
2010-02-28 · Desert Island Discs · June Spencer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source