Free Thinking - Dame Janet Suzman

Arts & Ideas

BBC

Society & Culture

4.2 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2014

⏱️ 46 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In extended conversation with Philip Dodd, Dame Janet Suzman talks about her acting and directing and politics in her native South Africa - which goes to the polls on May 7th.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Can I just say?
0:01.5	You're about to listen to a BBC podcast.
0:04.0	It's such a wonderful listen.
0:05.6	So nice.
0:06.5	There are loads more like it on BBC sounds.
0:08.8	Different paces, different heights.
0:10.6	The roof is buckling.
0:11.9	Where you can also listen to live sports commentary.
0:14.2	It's right foot goes for goal.
0:16.6	And then enjoy even more podcasts full of analysis and reaction to the big stories.
0:21.7	The stat that is astonishing is they ended with the lowest amount of possession.
0:25.2	And she's had to live with that.
0:26.8	So if you love sport, a passion, it's almost like a religion.
0:29.8	Listen on BBC sounds.
0:31.8	Sort of expecting that every week now.
0:34.7	This is a download from the BBC.
0:36.6	For more information and our terms of use,
0:38.8	go to BBC.co.uk slash radio three.
0:43.3	The country where she was born and grew up
0:46.3	still shadows her,
0:47.8	even though she left for London in 1959 when she was 20 years old.
0:52.9	She may have been one of those actors who reimagined Shakespeare in the 1960s in Britain alongside Peter Hall and others,
	...

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.