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Sir David Frost

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first: 2005-11-27
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“The London A to Z, I think you know it'd be nice to be reminded of London there and so on. So I think a London A to Z would keep me happy.”
2005-11-27 · Desert Island Discs · Sir David Frost · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Right, the last record Well, this I always thought that Dan Bussel was a great film, and on the occasion of the millennium, Corina's brother Ed had a fireworks display and a fantastic soundtrack. That's right. And he had a show with this fantastic Fire display with great synchronized music to it, bellowing out. And people loved it, but when they heard the Dambusters March, they almost saluted because it had such emotion. And I think it is probably the strongest classical music score ever.”
2005-11-27 · Desert Island Discs · Sir David Frost · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think really that when I think back we talked about my parents and our boys and so on, I would say to our three boys as my father was to me, I'd be more than happy with that as a”
2005-11-27 · Desert Island Discs · Sir David Frost · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, no, I can't inhale. I had two megastles. Each devote two hours to trying to teach me how to Inhale a funny cigarette.”
2005-11-27 · Desert Island Discs · Sir David Frost · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, very good question. Do you know the answer to that is Its pathetic, which is that I didn't smoke much cigarettes really in the sixties. I really started cigars about.”
2005-11-27 · Desert Island Discs · Sir David Frost · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“What? We always do that. We just inject the clouds with iron and everything will be fine. Don't worry about the weather. And they did it, and the evening was a beautiful sunny evening. No rain, no clouds. Amazing. I thought maybe Wimbledon should have done that instead of putting those things over the top, but I think the Green Party is probably a little bit stronger here than in Russia. Anyway, here's the song. It's the long and winding road which Paul wrote himself in Scotland.”
2005-11-27 · Desert Island Discs · Sir David Frost · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, oh yes, yes, and hopefully through the years that you develop more techniques and so on. And so probably I've got more strings to my bow or ways to try and get to the answer. Number seven coming up now this is Paul McCartney. We were together last two years ago and we did a show Paul McCartney in Red Square. I did some interviews for it and it was an amazing experience because there we were in Red Square where the Beatles had been banned from for twenty, thirty years and it was important for the evening but also for the resulting television show we were doing that it be really nice weather because there was no cover for Paul, no cover for the audience or anything and we woke up on the morning Saturday morning I remember we looked at the papers and the weather forecast was dreadful disaster disaster and they said oh don't worry about that we'll just inject the clouds with iodine and everything will be fine”
2005-11-27 · Desert Island Discs · Sir David Frost · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I think, yes, I think that the overall, I think, that it's a help usually, because everybody knows that this is a professional assignment, and although we're friends and”
2005-11-27 · Desert Island Discs · Sir David Frost · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, and he was amazing because everyone was waiting for this sort of fist fight, which it was, indeed. But just 30 seconds before the program started, it was live with an audience. It's a real ploy just before the start of the thing.”
2005-11-27 · Desert Island Discs · Sir David Frost · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, yes. Oh no, I think that's right. That's a perfectly valid technique. I don't remember doing it with Edward Heath just on the question of do you like Harold Wilson because he didn't, but he didn't want to say so. Indeed, you didn't.”
2005-11-27 · Desert Island Discs · Sir David Frost · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I think it works, yes. I mean, I think the key thing is, obviously, when you're going into an interview, as you know, here am I talking about interviewing to you, but the task is obviously to draw the person out, not to shut him up, but to open him up or her up. And I think the thing is that you can ask just as tough questions or just as testing questions in a conversational tone as in a hectoring tone.”
2005-11-27 · Desert Island Discs · Sir David Frost · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think like is almost too personal a word for Nixon, the man with no small talk with a barrier between him and the rest of the world. You know what I mean? It's almost too personal a word. And also one had to bear in mind that although one felt he was a tragic figure, that in fact there were 30 people or so who were in jail for following out his orders or trying to help him. Well, the next one here is for Karina, and it's Boblind, an elusive butterfly of love. We're all alone by Rita Coolidge, she considered deeply because that was the tune that was playing in the car on our wedding day. But in the end, this particular one won the female vote.”
2005-11-27 · Desert Island Discs · Sir David Frost · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Which I think was true in America that it was really a catharsis, you know, that America needed that to clear that cloud out of the air and so on.”
2005-11-27 · Desert Island Discs · Sir David Frost · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And more than even we cannot tell you the two and a half hours, the key two and a half hours the second day of Watergate, it was so exhausting, it was electric, it was pushing him to go further. He came on the second day. He knew he'd got to admit more than he admitted on the first day, so he would admit mistakes, but then he wouldn't go further than mistakes. And getting to the point where in the end he said, you know, I let down the American people. I let down our whole system of government hopes and dreams of young people who think that politics is just some dirty business and so on. I have to live with that for the rest of my life. I mean, it was amazing Mayor Cooper at the end. And everybody said the word that was...”
2005-11-27 · Desert Island Discs · Sir David Frost · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I got a contract stipulated 25% would be Watergate. And that was vital. That had to be stipulated because Nixon tried to get out of Watergate with me. And he would have got out of it if it hadn't been there in the contract. Yet. I mean, he was trying to say for legal reasons he couldn't. I mean, there was a lot of that sort of... Tightrope walking before we got right there in the sessions, and of course he had no right to know the questions in advance, nor even to see the edited programs before they were broadcast. And he said afterwards that he thought they'd been tough but fair.”
2005-11-27 · Desert Island Discs · Sir David Frost · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I paid six hundred thousand dollars for six hours, NBC were offering four hundred thousand dollars for two hours, so I got a better rate, but I was doing more.”
2005-11-27 · Desert Island Discs · Sir David Frost · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, yes, yes. Because when it came down to the final, as it were, the finalists was NBC News and myself. And in the last stage I said that I would because I thought it was obvious, most fascinating figure. that I would guarantee him six hours, and NBC only said they'd guarantee him two. That was the key to it.”
2005-11-27 · Desert Island Discs · Sir David Frost · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, number five is Andrew Lloyd Weber. I first met Andrew Lloyd Weber in 1969 when we had on the Frost program on ITV, we met for the first time. It was the first ever television performance of the one song that they'd got written from Jesus Christ superstar, which was Jesus Christ Superstar. But I've taken here the music of the night because I just think that is a fantastic. Again, the boys and Karina would agree with me on this song. And of course, I mean, it's amazing. This is the most successful show, including film. history. I mean, the second one is cats and the third one is Titanic, I think. And this is the one and only Michael Crawford, who was the first person to perform this, and probably the best. The power of the music of”
2005-11-27 · Desert Island Discs · Sir David Frost · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Jealous of you, I mean Karina is much more perceptive. She'll sometimes say to me, you know. Person you were just talking to, he's very jealous of you. And I said, what are you talking about? I'm just completely unaware of it. So maybe that helps. Typical bit of male insensitivity.”
2005-11-27 · Desert Island Discs · Sir David Frost · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Ian McCowan, the essays they were important, and Corin Redgrave's essays. Those were the three that I owe this great debt to. And maybe I should take their essays with me as a luxury item or something. But I suppose you're never really aware of people.”
2005-11-27 · Desert Island Discs · Sir David Frost · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But I think the ones who managed to carry on doing satire for 30, 35 years deserve a medal. And it's lovely, in fact, in the case of John Byrd and John Fortune that they have greater fame now than they ever had before, which is well deserved. And that's great because John Fortune was someone else who lent me essays. Help me get a degree with the”
2005-11-27 · Desert Island Discs · Sir David Frost · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, yeah, that's a very good light. But the Peter Cook thing was interesting because he was a good friend. We had a period of rivalry when I was doing that was the week that was to the whole country in England. And he was doing brilliantly beyond the fringe to the Broadway audience in New York. And in fact, right at that time, I went to stay with him in Connecticut, and I'm not a good swimmer. In fact, I'm not a swimmer at all. And I was, in fact, about to drown, and he pulled me out, you know, and he said afterwards with people accusing us of being rivals, I thought I'd better pull him out. They might say I pushed him in, you know, and so on. But we remain friends through the years, right through to what was unfortunately his last birthday dinner party, which was a very happy occasion. So now that was really just a passing factor.”
2005-11-27 · Desert Island Discs · Sir David Frost · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, a bit at the time, but mainly there was some sort of public school sort of snobby type comments at Cambridge, but those passed very quickly. To use the grammar school boy.”
2005-11-27 · Desert Island Discs · Sir David Frost · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Number four on our song sheet is a great artist Ray Charles but I wanted to have Life has been in America and I owe it a great debt too, and I've had a great time over there, so I want to reflect on that as well. So it's Ray Charles America the Beautiful.”
2005-11-27 · Desert Island Discs · Sir David Frost · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, yes, absolutely. And the first time I walked into television studio, I really thought I'm home. You know, I really did. I mean, I remember that day. And I thought, this is for me”
2005-11-27 · Desert Island Discs · Sir David Frost · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It was an amazing time to be up at Cambridge. Peter Cook and John Cleese came up while I was there and Tim Brooke Taylor and the goodies and just incredible cross-section plus the two main actors at Cambridge at that time, undergraduate actors were Ian McKellen and Derek Jacoby. I mean the plays were directed by Trevor Num. Books were written by Margaret Drappel. I mean it was an extraordinary time to be able to.”
2005-11-27 · Desert Island Discs · Sir David Frost · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You did. I mean, in those days, the maximum, not the minimum, but the maximum wage was £20 a week. It was a sort of surf system. So that was not, and I wanted to go to Cambridge as well. Exactly. So the two things combined.”
2005-11-27 · Desert Island Discs · Sir David Frost · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, I know. I was trying to be modest. I was a humble youth. No, it was me. So I did this thing saying all dogs should be shot. And of course this caused a huge concern. And the next day there were nine huge letters in the evening telegraph. But the bewildering thing about them was that four of them were in favour of this idiotic idea. And there was one from a man called Lawrence Walgrave, I think his name was, which said, I think that maybe gassing would be the right humane solution. And I thought, did I write that letter as well? That's as insane as mine.”
2005-11-27 · Desert Island Discs · Sir David Frost · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“With that fury in the letters page of the Northampton Cheer Evening Telegraph, J. Howard Granger, that was our alleged person, my nom de plume.”
2005-11-27 · Desert Island Discs · Sir David Frost · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, the next one we've got here is a choice not of my childhood, but of our son's childhood. We asked Myles and Wilfrid and George what they would pick for this program. I want to take one of their choices with me. And they came up unanimously with cold play and the song in question, fix you.”
2005-11-27 · Desert Island Discs · Sir David Frost · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's right, I'd never been abroad, and I'd always been in the same place as my parents, and yet when I went up to Cambridge on a Saturday evening driven by father in his nineteen thirty five singer, I think it was, I checked in, I unpacked at five o'clock, and I felt at home and everything by six because I'd had a fantastically happy childhood, but now I wanted to get out to the wider world.”
2005-11-27 · Desert Island Discs · Sir David Frost · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There was a piano because my mother played the piano. There was a study, a den for dad, obviously. There was rooms for my two sisters, but they were rarely there, so we would have occasional disputes over whether we were going to listen to, as Jean suggested, Henry Wood promenade concerts, or as I suggested, ignorance is bliss with Harold Beren's Avril Angers and Gladys Hay. There were certain...”
2005-11-27 · Desert Island Discs · Sir David Frost · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was an accident, I think, not even an afterthought. Who are you? My father never owned more than $750 a year in his life, obviously. So I never will realize how we had a joint every weekend. Not on a Sunday, because Sunday was so busy. And in fact, until I was 18, I went to Cambridge, I didn't really know there was anything you did on a Sunday other than going to church, you know, at 10.45 in the morning, 2.30 in the afternoon at 6.30 in the evening. It was a full program. I mean, basically the house...”
2005-11-27 · Desert Island Discs · Sir David Frost · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Number two is a dear friend Elton John, and this is the first time I met Elton during the show in New York in nineteen seventy, and he'd just broken through in America, and he'd got his number one, first number one hit, and it was this one.”
2005-11-27 · Desert Island Discs · Sir David Frost · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“What happened was it in the third or fourth show it was a cracker of a show, and the next day the postmaster general who was in charge of broadcasting then, a guy called Reginald Bevins, said, I'm going to stop these disgraceful sketches. And so we waited for the reverb on the Monday and so on. Nothing happened. And thirty years later, when the papers for that year came out, it said how Reginald Brevins had said on that Sunday I'm going to stop these disgraceful sketches, and on his desk on the Monday morning had been a note from the Prime Minister saying Oh no, you're not It's better to be mocked than ignored H we never knew that until thirty years later.”
2005-11-27 · Desert Island Discs · Sir David Frost · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And at the bottom it said Tomorrow Bertrand Russell If you're 23 and it's tomorrow, Bertrand Russell, the next day was John Osborne. Punch commented, it sounds like a rather nice club to belong to.”
2005-11-27 · Desert Island Discs · Sir David Frost · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source