Cilla Black
Desert Island Discs
BBC
4.4 • 13.7K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 1988
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
This week's castaway on Desert Island Discs reveals her three remaining burning ambitions in life: to make a number-one record, to become a grandmother and to be treated as a real sex symbol - all this with 25 years of singing and compering success behind her. She's matchmaker supreme Cilla Black, and she'll be talking about her legendary early days in Liverpool, her subsequent career and her family.
[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]
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Transcript
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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. |
| 0:08.0 | The program was originally broadcast in 1988 and the presenter was Sue Lawley. My cast away this week is a singer. 25 years ago at the age of 19 she rose to fame as one of the |
| 0:39.6 | Liverpool voices which captured the nation's attention. Today she still sings but her effervescent |
| 0:45.8 | personality means that she enjoys an equally famous role as the presenter of two successful |
| 0:51.6 | television shows. She is of course C Silla Black. |
| 0:55.0 | A singer, Silla turned Presenter. |
| 0:59.0 | Which is your first love? |
| 1:01.0 | Oh, Singer? |
| 1:02.0 | Comedeine, me? I think so. It terrifies me. I can only be funny with people that I, it's awful |
| 1:09.6 | things to say that I enjoy being with and an awful lot of these show business functions. |
| 1:14.3 | I hate, I hate the people that are there, so I can't be funny. |
| 1:17.1 | I know I shouldn't say that. |
| 1:18.1 | But really, no, I prefer to be known as a singer. |
| 1:21.0 | The Epitaph would say singer first. Absolutely yes that's all I've ever ever wanted to do. My ambition really is to have another number one hit pop record. |
| 1:30.8 | Do you think you could make another number one? Yes, but I wouldn't like it as a re-release. I like something |
| 1:37.0 | specially written for me. I mean, the thing is I know anyone who had a heart. |
| 1:41.0 | I have to say it probably. who had a heart was I know it was great because it was |
| 1:46.2 | a number one then selling sort of a hundred thousand records per day so I've been there done that. I'd like another number one with a new song. |
| 1:57.0 | For McCartney, listening. |
| 2:00.0 | Abandoning you on a desert island, would I imagine be the cruelest thing one could do to you is that right? |
| 2:06.0 | Not really no a lot a lot of people think that because I love being with people all the time |
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