BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts

Lauren LeVernier, we're taking our Easter break so until we're back on air we're showcasing

a few programs from our archive as usual the music's been shortened for right reasons.

This week's guest is the actor Kathleen Turner.

Sue Lolli cast her away in 2000.

My cosy way this week is an actress.

It was just over 20 years ago that she was happily pursuing her career off Broadway and in American

television soap when she landed the lead in a Hollywood hit.

It was called body heat and the character she played sexy and ruthless made her a star.

She followed it up with other glamorous roles in films such as Pritz's Honor, Romance

the Stone and the War of the Roses.

Then illness stopped her in her tracks.

Rumor toyed arthritis brought constant pain and immobility.

Today she's recovered and she's back in the limelight this time in London's West End

playing the seductive Mrs Robinson in the play of the film The Graduate.

In it she appears naked.

A brave decision some say for a woman in her mid 40s but she has no qualms about it.

There's a definitive look for women she says which is practically fleshless.

Women aren't like that so I thought I do my little bit for us.

She is Kathleen Turner.

Kathleen you done it it's a great moment but I can't believe you did it without a qualm.

It's one thing to decide to do it.

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