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🗓️ 28 June 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
0:04.8 | Hello, I'm Lauren LeVern and this is the Deser Island Disks Podcast. |
0:08.4 | Every week I ask my guests to choose the eight tracks, book and luxury they'd want to take |
0:13.2 | with them if they were cast away to a desert island. |
0:16.3 | For right reasons, the music is shorter than the original broadcast. |
0:20.5 | I hope you enjoy listening. |
0:30.4 | Music Radio Music |
0:44.8 | My cast away this week is Helen McCrawary, one of the most critically acclaimed actresses |
0:49.5 | working in Britain today. Throughout her 30-year career, she's won rave reviews for her theatre |
0:55.2 | performances from Chekov's Uncle Vanya to Euripides Medea. |
0:59.3 | On screen, she's played Anna Karenina, Sherry Blair, Twice, |
1:02.9 | Harry Potter's Narcissum Malfoy and Peggy Blinders, |
1:06.3 | Matriarch and Polly. Her performances have been remarkable both for the emotional insight she |
1:12.2 | brings to characters we might otherwise struggle to understand and for the transformation she undergoes |
1:18.3 | while playing them. A diplomat's daughter, she spent her early childhood in Africa, where family |
1:24.1 | concerts honed her skills as a performer. She married fellow actor Damian Lewis after falling |
1:29.5 | for him at first sight and today they make a formidable acting duo. About her craft, she says, |
1:35.9 | I'm much more comfortable subjugating my personality to someone else's. I'm an interpreter, |
1:41.4 | that's my job. Acting isn't about you. I'll say all about you today, Helen McCrawary, |
1:47.1 | welcome to desert island discs. Thank you very much, thank you very much. Acting isn't about you |
1:52.6 | then, Helen, but I know that when you approach a character you do start by making a list of the |
1:57.2 | similarities and differences between you and them and I wonder who's been most like you that you've |
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