Anne Reid
Desert Island Discs
BBC
4.3 • 14.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2014
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Actress Anne Reid is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs.
For a long time the bedrock of Anne Reid's successful career seemed to be her perfectly nuanced portrayal of a variety of northern mums - what she calls "skirt and jumper roles". Her first major role was playing Valerie Tatlock in Coronation Street - her character's funeral was watched by millions.
In 2003 the skirt and the jumper came off when she and Daniel Craig starred in the highly acclaimed movie The Mother, about a frumpy looking woman in her late 60s who passionately seduces her daughter's boyfriend.
Anne Reid has appeared in Victoria Wood's comedy series Dinnerladies and is currently playing Celia in BBC drama Last Tango in Halifax about two widowed septuagenarians finding love again.
She says, "...inner talent gives you that ease. It's not a remarkable thing - just a knack that gives you a very nice life."
Producer: Paula McGinley.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Kirstie Young. Thank you for downloading this podcast of Desert Island Disks from BBC Radio 4. |
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| 0:17.0 | Radio 4. the My cast away this week is the actress Anne Reed. For a long time the |
| 0:39.8 | bedrock of her successful career seemed to be her perfectly nuanced portrayal of a variety of Northern mums, what she calls |
| 0:47.0 | skirt and jumper rolls. Then in 2003 the skirt and indeed the jumper came off. When she and Daniel Craig starred in the seduces her daughter's boyfriend. What Miss Beardsworth, the elocution teacher who helped |
| 1:05.7 | her get into Radha in 1951, would have made of all this as anyone's guess. But the rest of us can only |
| 1:11.0 | be grateful. These days, rarely a month goes by without her appearing on stage or in our living rooms. |
| 1:17.0 | She says, |
| 1:18.0 | Inner Talent gives you that ease. |
| 1:20.0 | It's not a remarkable thing, just a knack that gives you a very nice life. |
| 1:25.0 | You've been an actress then since the start of the 1960s, Anne Reed, and yet it's in the last what 10 to 15 years that things have gone stellar for you that's all the wrong |
| 1:34.4 | way round it doesn't usually happen that way no I think it's the right way around actually I |
| 1:39.2 | didn't have huge stardom you know like movies and things like that when I was young. |
| 1:44.7 | And so things have just got better and better and it's wonderful. |
| 1:48.0 | Last tango in Halifax is your latest big hit. |
| 1:50.1 | That's Prime Time BBC 1 and it rakes in the viewers. I know I'm so lucky to be doing |
| 1:54.4 | that. You're often seen these days I think as a a standard bearer for the older |
| 1:58.8 | woman you know this is how life can be. Yeah I think you are. Does that bother you? No I mean the thing about getting old is that you don't feel it. That's the problem. I'm 78 now. I thought I would be really ready and a different person and it absolutely hasn't happened. |
| 2:17.9 | In my head I'm still about 43. |
| 2:21.0 | When people want to help me upstairs and help me out of taxes, I get, I get, |
| 2:25.6 | occasionally they do. I get a bit techie. In upstairs, downstairs, the director |
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