Bruce Forsyth
Desert Island Discs
BBC
4.3 • 14.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 1996
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
This week's castaway on Desert Island Discs may be nearing 70, but he knows how to play The Generation Game. Bruce Forsyth is one of the great all-rounders - television host, pianist, dancer and comedian.
He began performing as a child, tap-dancing on the roof of his father's lock-up garages. But, as he tells Sue Lawley, his big night came when he was asked to compere Sunday Night at the Palladium. He has spent more than five decades in showbiz, progressing from Boy Bruce the Mighty Atom, to probably the most successful game show host on television. To quote one of his own famous catchphrases, "Didn't he do well?"
[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]
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| 0:00.0 | Hello I'm Krestey Young and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs archive. |
| 0:05.0 | For rights reasons, we've had to shorten the music. |
| 0:08.2 | The program was originally broadcast in 1996 and the presenter was Sue Lolly. My castaway this week is an entertainer. He's been in front of an audience of one kind or another all of his life. |
| 0:35.0 | He turned professional at the age of 14 with a one-man routine at the theatre royal Bilston. |
| 0:40.0 | For the next 15 years he slogged it out as a stand-up comedian and song and dance man until in |
| 0:45.8 | 1958 he was chosen as the host of I TV's Sunday night at the London Palladium. |
| 0:51.6 | A very British star was born. One who lived on to host the |
| 0:55.4 | original Generation Game on BBC, performed a packed houses in the West End, and today at |
| 1:00.5 | the age of 68 is still on stage, as it were, in I TV's play your cards right and the price is right. |
| 1:06.8 | I couldn't be the person people see on the television. |
| 1:09.3 | He says, he'd drive me absolutely insane. is Bruce Forsyke is he a monster oh he would he would I |
| 1:16.6 | couldn't be like that all the time I'm not that that that what I don't know what to call |
| 1:22.4 | him really. |
| 1:23.0 | But he's always there. |
| 1:25.0 | He's in charge. |
| 1:26.0 | He's in charge. |
| 1:27.0 | And whenever, just before I go on stage or when I'm going to do a television show, |
| 1:31.0 | I'm standing on the side there, quite relaxed, probably got a glazed |
| 1:35.5 | look about my eyes at the time, but then he always turns up and he pushes me on and then I |
| 1:41.9 | become this other brusy. |
| 1:44.3 | So he's, I mean he's brusy as opposed to Bruce is he? |
| 1:47.1 | Oh yeah brusy. |
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