Frankie Howerd

Desert Island Discs

BBC

Society & Culture, Music Commentary, Music, Personal Journals

4.4 • 13.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 1982

⏱️ 36 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Roy Plomley's castaway is comedian Frankie Howerd. Favourite track: Jerusalem by Blake/Parry Book: David Copperfield by Charles Dickens Luxury: Cross given to him by his mother

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hello, I'm Christy Young, and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs Archive.
0:05.8	For rights reasons, we've had to shorten the music.
0:08.8	The program was originally broadcast in 1982, and the presenter was Roy Plumley.
0:30.7	This week, our cast away is the comedian, Frankie Howard.
0:34.8	Frankie, could you endure prolonged loneliness?
0:37.5	You mean, on a loan, a prolong, on a Desert Island?
0:40.4	That's it.
0:41.4	Well, it's the old joke, because it's better than the alternative.
0:44.2	What if that?
0:45.2	Being dead.
0:46.2	Well, yes, you see what I mean.
0:47.7	But I would like it for too long, no, I don't think.
0:50.2	What would you be happiest to have got away from?
0:52.6	Well, I think the thing is that I would sometimes be happiest to get away from,
0:55.4	would be me.
0:56.4	And that's the one thing I'd be thrown together with, if you'd like me.
0:58.9	Very close.
0:59.9	So I wouldn't be happy to get away from people.
1:04.6	Traffic jams.
1:05.6	That's, you know, that definitely traffic jam.
1:07.6	That's not a traffic jam within a thousand miles.
1:10.5	How much of a musician are you, do you play the piano?
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BBC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of BBC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.