Ep. 365 - Jess Conrad
My Time Capsule
Cast Off Productions
4.8 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2024
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Jess Conrad has been ‘the vainest man in showbiz’ self styled since the 1950’s, having been a pop star, a film star, a star of the West End, a TV star and a cabaret star. Jess fell into film extra work, then acting work, being discovered by Jack Goode and having a number of hits in the early sixties, including one voted the sixth worst song of all time. He went on to play Jesus in Godspell and Joseph in Joseph and His Amazing Technicolour Dream Coat for many years, whilst also appearing in dozens of films like Reach For The Sky, The Queen’s Guard and the Sex Pistol’s film, The Great Rock n Roll Swindle. Jess has appeared in TV shows like Dixon of Dock Green,The Human Jungle, Softly Softly, Space 1999, Are You Being Served and Last of the Summer Wine .
Jess Conrad is guest number 365 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again .
Jess Conrad’s autobiography “From Blitz to Glitz” is available here - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blitz-Glitz-Autobiography-Jess-Conrad/dp/1837914567 .
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| 0:00.0 | An Apple original film, Blitz. |
| 0:02.0 | Please, Mom. Don't set him me away. |
| 0:04.0 | It's only until all this is over. |
| 0:06.0 | Steve McQueen's Blitz is a triumph. |
| 0:09.0 | Your son did not arrive at his destination. |
| 0:11.0 | You were meant to be looking after him. Where's my boy? |
| 0:14.0 | Critics Rade. |
| 0:16.0 | Sershya Ronan is superb. |
| 0:18.0 | I just want to go home. |
| 0:19.0 | A monumental achievement in British cinema. I'll be back when I sound my boy. |
| 0:23.6 | A masterpiece. Blitz. Streaming on Apple TV Plus 22nd of November. Subscription required. |
| 0:32.2 | This episode is sponsored by Shopify. |
| 0:35.3 | You know where that sound is, don't you, John? |
| 0:37.5 | Yes, it's the sound of another sale on Shopify. |
| 0:39.9 | That's what I was going to say. |
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| 0:45.5 | Are you actually listening to anything? |
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