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I'm Laurie Taylor and this is a podcast for BBC Radio Ford's thinking aloud. I wonder, can you speak Polari? Do you perhaps know some of that

very special language, its role in the life of gay men, its place in the

broadcast life of Julian and Sandy, its apparent slow death. Here are all the answers.

Hello.

Hello. Although I once got to play a walk-on part of Joan Littlewood's famous theatre

royal, I was never going to make it as an actor. My friend Terry encapsulated the problem. You're so absurdly pleased with yourself

that you're singularly incapable of becoming anyone else. But my time at the

Theatre Royal did introduce me to the world of professional actors and their typical ways of joshing.

Oh, you are marvelous tonight, darling. How was I? Their distinctive intonations?

Mm, who's the prettiest boy in the theatre tonight, and their favoured Appalachians,

darling, sweetheart, gorgeous. But wasn't this supposed to be a radical theatre company,

a company that eschewed artifice in favour of social realism, and if so, why was so many actors apparently locked into such, well, stereotypical personas?

My good friend Terry patiently explained,

acting lorry is precarious. That camp language allows actors to feel part of a tribe,

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