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Ronnie Corbett

lines on the record: 48
first: 2007-10-21
most recent: 2007-10-21
sittings or episodes: 1
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“Well, there will be a bit of trouble if I don't, but it would seem eminently wrong, disgracefully wrong not to take a record of somebody I've spent so much of my time gloriously with.”
2007-10-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ronnie Corbett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I think I might have rather attractively designed very comfortable hammock, and I'll string it between two palm trees and lounge there and read Alabenet.”
2007-10-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ronnie Corbett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I think I've taken because it was on my bedside and I've read about ten or eleven pages of it so far I might as well get to carry on reading it. Alan Bennett's untold stories which I'm in loving and I've read more than ten pages. That's a lie. But I would take that.”
2007-10-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ronnie Corbett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My final well Tony Dewley, who was a dear friend and who I met when I was in a film top of the form where we were all schoolboys, and I love his music, I love his singing, and he wrote this with, I think, Leslie Brickers, and I just love his voice.”
2007-10-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ronnie Corbett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't think I'd be very, very good. I enjoy the first afternoon, perhaps. I think I'd be quite practical and try to make the best of it. It might be quite good at catching fish and cooking them. I wouldn't be happy.”
2007-10-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ronnie Corbett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, it's very, very touching, actually. As I think about the feelings he see our tears are coming to my eyes. About two weeks ago I was walking down the street and a taxi driver passed, lowered his window, kissed the palm of his hand and blew the kiss. Towards me now that is really touching. Really moving. That sort of affection is very, very lovely to be treasured, really, so I love it, really.”
2007-10-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ronnie Corbett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This goes back this artist Bobby Short goes back a long way. I saw him at the Pizza on the Park when he came over here this season, but he was always a chic. Gentleman was Bobby Shaw, that he has been in my heart for a long time. I mean, he's so musical, and of course it's wonderful when somebody sings to you and plays the piano and doesn't have to look at the keyboard or the piano is looking out there all the time and playing effortlessly and I love listening to it. Only last week Anne and I stayed at the Carlisle where Bobby Short worked, and we were very They've called it now, Bobby Short Place.”
2007-10-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ronnie Corbett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, you did jokes again and introduced clips of stuff we done before, but we were there all the time and there were lovely and it was a very easy way to do it.”
2007-10-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ronnie Corbett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, you be surprised really was pretty sad, but we went and celebrated in our usual customary modest family way Joy and Ronnie and Anne and I went and had an Indian courier in Westbourne Grove, but that was something and that was it. But of course that has been really overshadowed by his last when we did the sketchbook and he was really weakened.”
2007-10-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ronnie Corbett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But Ron and I were breakfasting in our wee caravan, and we were filming our Norsemen, what do you call the people? Norsemen. Vikings, that's the word, thank you very much. Viking sketch, but he was the gormless one. Forget he was very funny as the absolute gormaser, but I was quite a strong bossy leader of the Viking gang. But we were sitting having our breakfast, and he said I bestow on I've been thinking about this and with one thing or another my wee health scare I've had, I am going to retire after the Christmas show after next Well it was very sweet of him to give me so much notice it wasn't going to damage me seriously we're going to stop the Turonics I think we both realized it was getting more and more difficult to buy material so it was perhaps an apt and proper time to do it”
2007-10-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ronnie Corbett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, it put me off performing, really, put me off the theatre to a bit damaged the fun I used to get. It wore you out, you kn”
2007-10-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ronnie Corbett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's difficult to understand. Yes, well Ron and I were doing this very successful season at the palladium twelve weeks to Ronnie's back. And one Saturday afternoon I suddenly got a balance problem when I was on the stage, and it was quite frightening because it only happened, it didn't happen in everyday life. At the moment I had to stand in the dark and wings and look out at that journey to the middle of the stage on a shiny black floor, the thought of falling over was ever present.”
2007-10-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ronnie Corbett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The next record Oh well, I listened to much of my music in the car, really when I can find it, as you know, I have a record of not being able to find LPs. I love this show, Carl D, and I love the thrilling overture written by Bernstein.”
2007-10-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ronnie Corbett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm not going to Rolly Barkham. And on the Sunday night after the last show at Tolanda Weekend, we were all going to have a Chinese meal and Gerald Wiley was going to grace us with his presence. So we were all at the table Michael Palin and John Cleese and all David Frost and the seat was left there for Gerald Wiley to attend and Ronnie stood up and said, Lady, I just want you to know that the chair is going to remain our occupier because I am in fact Gerald Riley, and somebody who shall be nameless said nobody likes a smart ass And so Gerald Wiley revealed.”
2007-10-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ronnie Corbett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“rights of that because it would suit you very much in concert party. So I said, well, I'll do that. I'll get on the phone tomorrow and then he came. How much did they want? He said, well, I only want three thousand pounds for the Ohm. And then eventually the message came from Gerald Wilde's office that he is going to give you the rights of the sketch in perpetuity for the way you've done it. So that was very lovely. So I've cut glass we've done with Gerald Wallie. Anyway, this Sunday night.”
2007-10-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ronnie Corbett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I never wrote, no, I mean I consult to put things together to suit myself kind of thing, but Ronnie wrote Ronnie was writing before that because Ronnie was we went through that wonderful period when he wrote as Gerald Riley the Gerald Wiley incident when nobody knew who Gerald Wiley was and we were appreciating all the stuff and the skill with which it was coming together and Ronnie said well I think this Gerald Wiley chap is he's looked after by my agent and he said I think he's either a well known novelist or he's like Beverly Nichols or even Tom Stop's name was even mentioned. I mean all sorts of people were mentioned as being possible Gerald Wiley's and then on the last Sunday night at London weekend television we were told that Gerald Wiley was going to appear. He had incidentally written a sketch and for me and suggested Ronnie had said you ought to get on to General Wiley's agent.”
2007-10-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ronnie Corbett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, but tremendous fun as well, you see, because we were never we were so well prepared, we never rushed into anything, so you could enjoy it because you were looking forward to doing something you were proud to be doing, really.”
2007-10-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ronnie Corbett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I do remember recording the first show Ron and I having been, I suppose, in the business for so long, sat down and worked out what the shape of a show would be, and we worked on the idea that the news items would be jokes that we were both due to the audience, but of course not speak to each other in the same way as Eric and because that's something we hadn't really built up a strength on. So we did the news out of that, we did sketches and we decided that we'd do an item each Ronnie would be a sort of character built single and I would do my thing in the chair just talking cozily.”
2007-10-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ronnie Corbett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The next piece of music well, of course, is darling Anne, who, as I have already said, I mean, gave up so much of her life and her talent, and she still sings remarkably well to this day, and sadly gave it up, really, but as I say, it wasn't a waste because she's brought up her two lovely daughters and given herself to them and to me. This song Music Master pleased, of course, there's a double interest because dear Bud Flanagan, who we both adored watching and who am worked with because she was the leading lady for the last two crazy gang shows, so here it is.”
2007-10-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ronnie Corbett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I got a shownet. That's right. Thank you very much. I was going to try. I forgot what I'd said, but you kind of remembered. But I didn't expect it to last all this time, I must see.”
2007-10-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ronnie Corbett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Standing as the Participant That's right. I remember recording it, where I thought it was very cleverly and aptly done, but looking down at him and looking up and quite nicely punctured at the end. It's that”
2007-10-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ronnie Corbett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, indeed, yes, but I think she felt particularly having lost Andrew that she was going to be very seriously devoted to caring for the children when young, but she did miss it, naturally miss it. Perhaps not as much as she would have missed it if she had been more confident within herself, so part of her for the amount of hutspa or bravery I had she had a similar amount of insecurity, really so it was a bit of a relief for him in one respect, but it was a terrible waste because she was enormously clever, you know.”
2007-10-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ronnie Corbett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, Anne was very brave we had two daughters one next April and Sophie the following April so she had two babies in two years.”
2007-10-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ronnie Corbett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Weeks Yes Very alarming call we had I had because I think Anne was still in the hospital at St. Thomas's and the nursing sister said we got a bit of a concern you come down and they've noticed there was a sort of part problem. His heart was actually on the wrong side of his body, that one itself wasn't serious. It wouldn't have been as serious now, of course, and they tried to do a little operation, but it didn't work, and we lost them six weeks old.”
2007-10-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ronnie Corbett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The next piece of music is oh my goodness me, yes, dear Dan, Dandy LaRue, who has been part of it, I said our lives for so long a godfather to one of our daughters and of course he's been the cornerstone of our Our emergence, really, because David Frost used to come to Winston's and see me at Winston's and used to come to Danny's and see us at Dan's, so it was a wonderful window to be seen in at the west end the little clubs like that that got the reputation of being not only slightly satirical and witty and clever and classy, but glamorous.”
2007-10-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ronnie Corbett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That didn't didn't bother her and it didn't bother me then. Probably the first time that it didn't bother me, but it didn't bother me with Anne, and it hasn't done since”
2007-10-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ronnie Corbett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh yes, almost Edbury Ivo has been so many inches tall with me Yes, I suppose Anne is about five foot eight or nine, yes.”
2007-10-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ronnie Corbett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There was just a sort of little twinkle, then it burst out into full flower. I don't suppose we were thinking I didn't think about being naughty with somebody who was married, as one didn't so much in those days, and was a turning point one New Year's Eve. Something happened and turned there's a turn round in the relationship and one knew that it was very serious from my point of view and I think from Ant.”
2007-10-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ronnie Corbett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well it was, yes, it was not a complicated really because Anne was married at the time, so we were very good friends in the nicest possible way, proper possible way for about five or six years.”
2007-10-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ronnie Corbett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, it wasn't an act in those days, you see, people, you Brian Blackburn, Barry Crowley sort of was, wrote little sort of reviews, and we would have four or six quite glamorous girls who come on from the talk of the town, and then a cast of about three or four, including Danny or Barbara Windsor Victor Spinetti, myself, and that and you put on a little show that lasted about an hour, you see at one o'clock in the morning.”
2007-10-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ronnie Corbett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It was Pixie's life rather fabulous. Absolutely. She was very kind of well, you know, regarded and thought of and connected because her brother Ran the Cafe de Paris. So Edward and I had now used to go and see cowards opening night there or Carl Brisson or Jack Buchanan El Salanchus are doing cabbery there, so I mean I did have a window onto the world as you say.”
2007-10-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ronnie Corbett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I was very fortunate because in the Air Force I met my dearest friend, Ted Hardwick, and his mum, Pixie, was an actress, Pixie Picard, and she was darling person, and she sort of sponsored me and encouraged me, and I had a sort of flat in the lower part of the house, I hesitate to go to the basement because she wouldn't want to put me in the basement”
2007-10-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ronnie Corbett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The next record is well Meltome I have listened to all my life since I bought my first my own wee record player and I had Meltormy Big LP in a blue world it was called and I've listened to everything Meltor me ever sang I just love him and Here he is with the Marty Page Detect, and I love him singing with it.”
2007-10-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ronnie Corbett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes five foot one, that's right, it hasn't well it's been the cornerstone, of course, of course I'm fortunate in that it's been the cornerstone of my success and life really that I've taken full advantage of it. I always think I am the last person to seem to feel I'm small. I'm behaving everywhere like an extremely tall normal person which I”
2007-10-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ronnie Corbett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My aunt sent away for this course, of course, you know, two guineas for a magazine, and I had to repeat every day, every day, and every way I'm getting taller and taller, and stick a pin in the wall and get all you're doing was stretching yourself, actually. So that didn't work. And then my mum took me to a child specialist in Murray Place, Edinburgh, so she must have worried about, but there was no kind of congenital, serious problem to worry about, so I suppose they will worry more than me, really.”
2007-10-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ronnie Corbett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, funnily enough, I don't remember ever being worried about my lack of height not growing up. My auntie worried more than me, or they may have sensed that I was a bit more concerned than I was letting on. But I never suffered from bullying or anything at school, but I just think I probably lacked a little bit of confidence missing because of it, although it didn't look angst about it, you know. What is your”
2007-10-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ronnie Corbett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The next record well the next record is my father again keep talking about my dad, my mom of course played a huge part as well but he used to take us to the Usher Hall to see very often the Glasgow Orpheus choir and this hymn was sung at all our christenings and my mum and dad's funeral so it's been really part of our singing forever and in the hands of Glasgow Orphy Esquire, I think it just sounds rather lovely.”
2007-10-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ronnie Corbett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We all went to church every Sunday morning dressed up in our kilts and we black brogues we walked from Marchmont to College Street Church wasn't the sort of John Knox kind of church of Scotland, but I suppose by today's standard it would be duo seeming, yes.”
2007-10-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ronnie Corbett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, very difficult really. I had to take the tram to school, always, of course, because we were on the Marchmont circle it was called in number six that went right round the whole of the skirt of Edinburgh and I'd go to school in the morning on the tram and came back and then you had your tea or your high tea, a bit of fried haddock or something, bread crumb by your mum and some maybe homemade chips and tomato ketchup and if you're lucky some tin pears or peaches with some carnation milk although that was usually left for a Sunday that was the day then you sat down a bit of homework or a bit of piano practice and”
2007-10-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ronnie Corbett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It was quite a few years of marriage before. Yes, six years, I think. And then nearly six years before my brother arrived, and then another four years before my sister arrived. I mean, in those days you see the canny, you know, the child was not arranged in the household until the wages could stand for it, really. Everything was kind of awfully carefully worked out.”
2007-10-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ronnie Corbett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, he what he could bake at home, but because when I was at home at school my dad was at the bake house so anything we enjoyed he may be brought home from the bake house, you know.”
2007-10-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ronnie Corbett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My father's baker, yes, a craftsman beyond belief, I mean who could make anything short pastry puff pastry, rough puff pastry, black buns, you know, charlotte's cherry cakes, chocolate cakes. I mean, he could do the lot”
2007-10-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ronnie Corbett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, that's true, fearless because when I came out of the Air Force having done my national service which was sort of the making of my national service was really coming down to London with ninety one pound in the post office savings bank and taking a bed sit, and that was me. That was my world and I just set about it really.”
2007-10-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ronnie Corbett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My first piece of music is Fred Astair singing change partners and dance with me and of course it to this day I just adore watching him and I mean he's just I think the most watchable person I have ever seen in my life doing anything and everything”
2007-10-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ronnie Corbett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, it was Tom Maxwell who's the minister who called on my mum, as ministers do. We were rehearsing a pantomime, I was playing the wicked aunt, and it was the turning point, of course, in my life, and having gone through school. Not that I suffered from it at the time, but I feel sort of unnoticed. This role in the pantomime was a real warning beacon to me that this is what I wanted to do. So I took the hint and the message, and from then on that was it.”
2007-10-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ronnie Corbett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well I don't think in those days we had to be fussy they were all of such high standard the people who wrote, you know, for us General Wiley, of course, Ronnie B, fussiest of them all and very high standard stuff, and Ian Davidson, Peter Vincent Marry Cryer, Dick Vosborough, Spike Mullen, David Renwick, the list is endless of people who really took trouble and care and loved the words as we did. So we were blessed really.”
2007-10-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ronnie Corbett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And appe Carefully, carefully crafted, carefully written in the first case by DS Mike Mullins, and then later by David Renwick. But Spike stumbled on me really because I did a program on television where I was introducing things and rambling and getting lost and changing my mind and going back again. And Spike rang up Thank God and said I think I could do this better for you, you know, I could make it more and Spike did, and there he was he did eight series of the two Ronnies, and nobody else wrote the chair, he wrote it. And David Remwick also the same said if Spike ever gets tired or worn out, I would love to step into his shoes, and he did, so there are only two writers who really supplied all the whole series, really.”
2007-10-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ronnie Corbett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, I don't people often say by the way we've got your chair and I say oh I look forward to it and it's never the same chair we keep getting various versions of it so it's never the original one I don't know where that's gone.”
2007-10-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ronnie Corbett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source