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🗓️ 24 November 2023
⏱️ 64 minutes
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0:00.0 | Sitting quietly once you've made the house all shiny. |
0:04.0 | Down time can be just fine playing bangers from the 90s. |
0:08.0 | Tea break. |
0:09.0 | Lunt break. |
0:10.0 | Maybe listen to the outbreak. |
0:12.0 | Sometimes it's not time for some tombola, right? |
0:15.0 | It's enjoying lasagna time, chilling with a book time, or time to visit your nan time. Go on some other time put your phone down tombollah open for fun terms apply 18 plus gambleaware.org |
0:29.4 | my wife said to me chance i'm quite enjoying rosebud but the wittering from you at the beginning is excessive just get on with with the Show. So let's just get on with the show. Welcome to Rosebud, the legendary British actress Dame Sheila Hancock. |
1:14.4 | Sheila Hancock has been working in the British theatre since the 1950s. A publican's daughter |
1:20.3 | from working class roots, she won a scholarship to Rada and then worked her way through |
1:25.4 | repertory theatre in the regions to become a leading lady |
1:28.0 | at the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre. |
1:31.1 | She's also had a hugely successful television career. |
1:34.6 | With leads in The Rag Trade and Mr. Digby Darling, she's been married twice. |
1:40.2 | We'll talk more about her marriages. |
1:42.1 | Her second one was to the actor John Thor, of course, famous for playing Inspector Morse. |
1:48.1 | I first saw Sheila on stage in the 1950s at the Theatre Royal Stratford East in a show called Make Me an Offer. |
1:56.5 | And I was so struck by her and the play that I actually wrote off to Wolf Magnovitz, |
2:02.0 | who wrote it, well, just a fan letter, and he sent back a copy of the script, which I still treasure. |
2:08.7 | I then got to know Sheila through doing the radio program just a minute, |
2:13.3 | and she was always so brilliant on that, such fun. |
2:16.3 | But we've become quite close in recent years |
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