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Mark Gatiss

lines on the record: 51
first: 2011-10-23
most recent: 2011-10-23
sittings or episodes: 1
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“I think it would have to be so in love, the girl porter. It reminds me of Ian, and it's a story song again. I could extrapolate all kinds of things around it.”
2011-10-23 · Desert Island Discs · Mark Gatiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“with a constant supply of hot water because although I imagine there is a lagoon indeed a sleepy lagoon to bathe in every morning there's nothing like a hot bath and I think best in the bath and often sleep in it.”
2011-10-23 · Desert Island Discs · Mark Gatiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I find myself thinking I might take a telescope because as I say I've got quite back into the things I used to like when I was little and they give me a lot of pleasure in that way then I thought no I'm not really going I'm allowed to choose something a bit more indulgent so I've chosen a bath”
2011-10-23 · Desert Island Discs · Mark Gatiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, This is the easy part. I would like to take the book that goes with me every time I go on holiday or any length of time, and it is quite obviously the complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Coend, a book which has succored and nourished me since I was a little thing, and never stops delighting me.”
2011-10-23 · Desert Island Discs · Mark Gatiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I couldn't go without co porta Kirsty, so I No, Cole Porter is a genius and these things should be celebrated. Not that it has gone unremarked. This again is another sad song, but I love it. And it's from Kiss Me Kate So in love.”
2011-10-23 · Desert Island Discs · Mark Gatiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, it's odd it's become so male actually. I guess in that way Men don't really deal very well with things. That's how it feels a bit to me at the moment. Everyone's sort of bumping along. I've got to look closer to my brother over the years, which I read. And we're still totally different people, but what you realize is it doesn't matter at all. I just want to say to people who are sweating the small things, don't worry, get on with it. And don't be nasty to people.”
2011-10-23 · Desert Island Discs · Mark Gatiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“She was very, very strong person, and I realise now she's gone how strong a bond she was. She was brilliant at keeping people together. I mean, I just remember when she told me. Just thinking this is just not fair. and especially so close to my mum going, but she was amazing and she never really Let it slip. And I do remember when we were in and planning a partnership and One of the only times you ever sort of directly refer to it, you said you'd better hurry up because I might not be here. and in that way you don't want to hear it, you can sort of push it away as long as no one just says it like that. But she was there, she was on great form, and we all had a fabulous day But actually, it wasn't that long afterwards you started suddenly go downhill. Some thanksgives, doesn't it? Definitely, I think.”
2011-10-23 · Desert Island Discs · Mark Gatiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“About eighteen months ago, and that was, I mean, God, what can you say? The notion now that my sister was looking after my mother and already had cancer is very difficult to do. You know, she was incredible, my sister. My sister was seven years older than me, so when I was five. She was already quite, you know, that's quite a distance.”
2011-10-23 · Desert Island Discs · Mark Gatiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I regret greatly, you know, not ringing home enough. It is difficult because inevitably you lead a different life and the pace of life, I think, is one of those things. You can't quite time does pass differently in different parts of the country and of your life.”
2011-10-23 · Desert Island Discs · Mark Gatiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, my sister was a district nurse and we were very lucky that my sister was able to look after my mum so she died at home. And this is one of those things I find both. Of affirming and quite difficult to explain the last week of my mother's life was a very happy time because we all sort of sat around the bed and we just swapped stories and we had a really good laugh. She was sort of just lying there, slipping away really, and it was nice to think she might be taking some of that in or at least hearing us. And then someone would go down and make some sandwiches and some tea and come back and weirdly when she went. One of the things we kind of missed was that ritual. It was there for a week. And actually as a family it was quite a bonding experience, and then it was over because there was nothing to justify it anymore.”
2011-10-23 · Desert Island Discs · Mark Gatiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This is a song called Yes by McCullman and Butler. It reminds me very much of the early nineties, I can't believe I'm even using that expression not long after I'd left college and I was living in London. Again, it's an enormously celebratory song.”
2011-10-23 · Desert Island Discs · Mark Gatiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I would be lying if I said no, yes. For ambitions, though, I mean, again, I've ticked an awful lot of them. I'd love more than anything to play Jacob Marley in a Christmas carol.”
2011-10-23 · Desert Island Discs · Mark Gatiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I mean, writing Doctor Who I think that's probably the wrong way to go because the last thing you should do is give people what they think they want. Certainly in terms of frightening children or frightening anybody, you just have to try and winkle something out. And having been brought up with the John Pur tweet stories which were set on earth and was like this could be happening down the road from you, these tailors dummies can come to life and that I think has had a profound influence on what I find frightening.”
2011-10-23 · Desert Island Discs · Mark Gatiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“They're discovering things today. I wouldn't rule it out. I don't know. I can't quite imagine the circumstances, as Michael Hazelton used to say, about going for the premises. But actually it's a curious one. I mean, Frank Steve Moffat, he has the ideal situation to be running Doctor Who because his two boys are his audience, his perfect audience. He can actually road test things. Bunsen's not so useful for that.”
2011-10-23 · Desert Island Discs · Mark Gatiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh yes, I got quite broody a few years ago in a totally unexpected way in that sort of footprint in the sand kind of way. It is very odd. But then that's one of the wonderful things about getting married Ian and I were both very conscious of the fact that over the years lots of people have disappeared from history who were someone's significant other because there was no facility to record them, you know. But in terms of I know we have a dog who is essentially our child and you can leave them for longer. I don't know. I love children and I think I'm essentially just too irresponsible. But I mean the notion of it I think is very appealing actually.”
2011-10-23 · Desert Island Discs · Mark Gatiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This is beautiful child by Rufus Wainwright. I'm very proud to say Rufus is one of the many people I forced to become my friend over the years, and this one I absolutely love. I was saying earlier on about not wanting to be too melancholy. This, I think, is a very life-affirming song.”
2011-10-23 · Desert Island Discs · Mark Gatiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh Matley, writing can be very lonely, and not being in a group environment anymore, as it was with the League, it would be extremely lonely if I didn't have a natural sounding board. I do too much, though, I do, and it's not really been a workaholic or anything. It's to do with the fact that things I'm asked to do are very, very hard to turn down, because almost with an exception They are, you know, childhood dreams come true. I pinch myself every day. If someone says you want to do a three part history of horror films, not bothered.”
2011-10-23 · Desert Island Discs · Mark Gatiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“and we entered to the theme from upstairs downstairs, so it was probably not quite the ostia version stripped down version I'd originally”
2011-10-23 · Desert Island Discs · Mark Gatiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Ashley, as soon as you said that, I thought, you know, you're absolutely right. So in the end, we had an opera singer, show tunes, we had our dog Bunsen was the ringbearer.”
2011-10-23 · Desert Island Discs · Mark Gatiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It is genuinely extraordinary thing to do that but also to go through a ceremony and for my family and Ian's family to be there and for it to be a wedding. In that way my brother said it was the best wedding he'd ever been to and it was considering that once upon a time it would have been inconceivable and of course not even possible. In a way I always fought shy of the idea because of being that generation, the visible versions of gay marriage were always Californian or They were always involving pink limousines and dyed pink crudes and things like that. And we did have a long series of conversations about what he was going to be like. And eventually Ian was sort of explaining this Cromwellian package we were putting together. And a friend of his said, it sounds like you're sort of ashamed of it.”
2011-10-23 · Desert Island Discs · Mark Gatiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, yes. Yes, we did. We were married three years ago in Middle Temple. And by total coincidence, the room you determine in it that we were underneath a portrait of Sir Edward Carson, the man who prosecuted Oscar Wilde. So I flicked the V's to him during the ceremony.”
2011-10-23 · Desert Island Discs · Mark Gatiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, happily, Ian is my absolute bedrock, and I don't want that to sound in a sort of dull way. Our entire relationship is built on laughter. I really don't know what I'd do without him.”
2011-10-23 · Desert Island Discs · Mark Gatiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's Wagner. I can't stand him. There's a story here. The interesting thing about the notion of going to this desert island to me is that you actually start to think about it as if it might happen, which is ridiculous, I hope. The sort of songs that might do this, this and this, they might tick this box. You could find what I find is there's lots of songs with stories in. But equally I want something that makes me laugh, and this does in the best possible way. And it also reminds me very much of my partner because it's actually a song originally recorded by Frida from ABBA. Ian is obsessed with ABBA. This is Sue Pollard's cover version of it. And whenever it was we first came across it, it was a source of great delight to us.”
2011-10-23 · Desert Island Discs · Mark Gatiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, this is the complex one. I was genuinely torn between the Liebus toad from Tristan and Isolt, or Supo Pollard's Come to Me I Am Woman, and Sue's one The story.”
2011-10-23 · Desert Island Discs · Mark Gatiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well it was created by our friendship because it wasn't something we thought there's a gap in the market here will do kind of comedy horror it just came out of our relationship. We realized it's absolutely true quite early on that we had all seen carry on screaming one particular bonfire and I'd think about nineteen seventy six and now I have a picture of us all In separate households in front of the TV, not watching the fireworks, but watching Oddbod”
2011-10-23 · Desert Island Discs · Mark Gatiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“boyfriend were staying up late of course so I just went downstairs and watched it anyway and that was the end of that it was a short exile”
2011-10-23 · Desert Island Discs · Mark Gatiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I would twist every single assignment into a horror story. There was one called A Day at the Beach, where a family at the beach found a severed head in a bucket. I just couldn't not do it. I've still got somewhere a school report where my teacher said they're very imaginative and excellent, even though there resemble scripts from Hammer films. I can remember that vividly. And then one parent's teacher's evening, my mum and dad came back and they basically seen that that's all I was interested in. And they banned me from watching horror films. It was a Friday night. It was an appointment with Fear Night on Tine Ts. And they were showing revenge of Frankenstein, a very obscure hammer film which had never seen. It was like not now. And we had a screaming row. I was into bed, and then heard them go to bed, and then realized that my sister and her brother”
2011-10-23 · Desert Island Discs · Mark Gatiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We're on disc number four. I've chosen Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis by Ray Fawn Williams, which I regret to say is the only sort of classical choice on here I've always loved this. And it's entirely to do with the fact it soars. It just sort of takes you up.”
2011-10-23 · Desert Island Discs · Mark Gatiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm a boy therefore remember once watching a documentary about Aspergus and there was this little boy on who was obsessed with Hoovers just collected them, you know, and his parents were on wearing themselves wringing their hands about it and his mother was saying I just don't understand where he gets it from and let it cut to his father with his extensive collection of radio masked photographs”
2011-10-23 · Desert Island Discs · Mark Gatiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, yeah, my brother used to torment me by reminding me of the stories he knew before I did. I always loved Doctor Who, but And I was quite I suppose Boffiny is the way not particularly scholarly, but I collected fossils, I loved astronomy, all those kinds of things.”
2011-10-23 · Desert Island Discs · Mark Gatiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My brother's three years out of the me. My sister was seven years older. My brother and I used to fight like cats and dogs. But now we're much closer.”
2011-10-23 · Desert Island Discs · Mark Gatiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Sitting Well, I'm sure she did. She always used to worry, I mean, in a very traditional way about not having a proper job and all those things. And happily. I was doing pretty well by the time she died. That fear had gone away.”
2011-10-23 · Desert Island Discs · Mark Gatiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“She was lovely. Funnily enough, I think I used to be more short tempered with my mam than any rest of my family because actually we were very alike.”
2011-10-23 · Desert Island Discs · Mark Gatiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It kills me there. I mean, I found it quite hard to listen to, but in a good way because it reminds me of my mother and but also that sentiment, I love that. One of the tracks I nearly chose, it's always haunted me is that wonderful song, Enjoy Yourself. It's later than you think.”
2011-10-23 · Desert Island Discs · Mark Gatiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I've chosen if I loved you from Carousel, and I discovered it because Carousel was one of my late mother's favourites, but it's also fascinatingly an example of a concept that Rogers and Hammerstein invented called the conditional love song and they realized they needed a big love duet earlier in the musical than the story would allow. So they came up with this and subsequently people will say we're in love and all those kinds of things.”
2011-10-23 · Desert Island Discs · Mark Gatiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Part of that sort of. I did have a girlfriend for a while, but I was never really in. to any of my friends. I think I had an afternoon of wrestling with the concept very long.”
2011-10-23 · Desert Island Discs · Mark Gatiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“and I went to the place where he worked in disguise. I went as a Mexican flower seller with a bunch of flowers, and then I revealed my disguise. That's probably the most stupid dramatically I've ever done. What a wonderful tale.”
2011-10-23 · Desert Island Discs · Mark Gatiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well God I did once, this is what a long time ago I was seeing a Canadian because he was in Vancouver we had to arrange when to phone each other and he rang me one morning and I said I'm just going away for a bit. I can't really talk and he was a bit off with me. What he didn't know is I was getting on a plane and I flew and arrived in the time zone on the same day.”
2011-10-23 · Desert Island Discs · Mark Gatiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I can spend five minutes in the company of a soap I never watch and I'll be in peace as I don't know why but I like I find it quite cathartic.”
2011-10-23 · Desert Island Discs · Mark Gatiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, it's interesting. One thing I found very revealing trying to choose these records, I had to sort of eight down and I looked at them and they were all terribly sad. And I thought I'd better put something in to cheer myself. But the music I like the best sort of makes me cry. That's not because I'm unhappy, I think.”
2011-10-23 · Desert Island Discs · Mark Gatiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This is the theme to Honor Her Majesty's Secret Service by John Barry. This is my favourite James Pond film. I love it because it's a one off. It's the George Lazenby one. It's a brilliant film. Terribly sad, strange downbeat ending. I just love this theme. It drives along and it's so exciting.”
2011-10-23 · Desert Island Discs · Mark Gatiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, I would say so. I mean I had a delightful and perfectly ordinary child. But my own sensibility, I think, just informs all that. I was always drawn, as I say, to the supernatural and to anything a bit odd. But that's actually, I think I was able to do that because I was actually very happy. And I quite liked stepping out of the sunshine because that's what I was drawn to, not because I was miserable. And that was one of the fantastic things about meeting and working with Stephen Reese and Jeremy in the league. All four of us were from different parts of the north. We had a sort of shared childhood and a shared sense of humour. We spent ages writing down this huge kind of Bible of what the town would be like, literally the geography of it. And it was amazing how easy it was to say, you know, the down by the swings which are all a bit rusted and forgotten, there'd be a big concrete pipe full of wet pornography. And one gym shoe and things.”
2011-10-23 · Desert Island Discs · Mark Gatiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There's a sort of strain of gothic in our lives, but it's very much rooted in real experience. One of my most vivid recollections is first seeing a play by Alan Bennett called Al Winnie, and it was Elizabeth Spriggs taking her mentally handicapped daughter to a crematorium for the day. And I remember just thinking how does he know? know all these people, I know everything about this, I know the grimness of this Sunday, I know that big coat with the buttons that she put on. And years later, I've been into a huge influence on me. Reading in his diaries when he was talking about When you find a passage in a book that chimes so perfectly with what you're thinking, it's like someone has reached out from the past and slipped their hand into yours.”
2011-10-23 · Desert Island Discs · Mark Gatiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Although I worked there myself briefly as a gardener. Something I'm not trained for when I was weeding one day I uncovered a sort of plaque which had been the foundation thing which called it a colony for the mentally defective I wrote it down straight away.”
2011-10-23 · Desert Island Discs · Mark Gatiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“An interesting thing, and again, you can deny away and then think, well, there must be something in this. Essentially, my dad worked there. He is an engineer there, and my mom worked there for a bit as well. We used to go swimming there. We used to get our hair cut there. We used to go to little cinema screenings. And it was quite normal to us. And it was only later on, many years later, I realized that all my school friends were literally petrified of even walking past the gates, that I realized it was just kind of part of my child”
2011-10-23 · Desert Island Discs · Mark Gatiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's literally loomed large and like topsy it has grown through various interviews over the years to become from perfectly straightforward nineteen thirties brick building into some sort of”
2011-10-23 · Desert Island Discs · Mark Gatiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, this reminds me of being about, I suppose, about fourteen I was doing the same thing, I was slightly missing being young by wanting to be a lot older, but I always loved the Smiths and actually this song, particularly I've come over the years to really love, I think it's a beautiful piece of poetry.”
2011-10-23 · Desert Island Discs · Mark Gatiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“When I was a kid, anything supernatural drew me. I would try and find it in anything garden's question time. I would look for something. But actually the older I've got, the more I've got interested in the idea of keeping it contemporary and finding the thrill and the scare and the laugh, actually, in a sort of modern context.”
2011-10-23 · Desert Island Discs · Mark Gatiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Really wonderfully fashioned waistcoats. There's a word for that sort of person. That I must confess, I'm sure I was an intolerable adolescent affected because you have to go through this. I mean, I do. I love clothes and I love dressing up with the right occasion, but I think you wasted an awful lot of my youth wanting to be older. In fact, that's very true. I know I did. And I used to sort of look forward to the notion of a reunion, which is not the way to live your life.”
2011-10-23 · Desert Island Discs · Mark Gatiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“She did, I mean, I can remember going it must have been when I was about five she used to go and look after some pensioners and I remember once going to a sort of wartime sing along singing along to bye bye blackbird not pretending I'm reincarnated or anything but I had an Igenet sort of affinity I've always loved talking to old people about the past I remember years ago talking to an old man who remembered the day someone ran in and told him the Titanic had gone down. I found that impossibly romantic, you know.”
2011-10-23 · Desert Island Discs · Mark Gatiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source