This download is the only extract the BBC has of this edition of desert island discs. The presenter was Roy Plumley.

So it's true, this room where the two come from Liverpool.

Well, I'm afraid it is. Yes, it is.

As a youngster, Jimmy, what did you want to be?

Professional football. It was always been my ambition. I suppose it's still a little bit grey.

Were you fascinated by show business as well to do hang around music halls as well as football field?

Oh, yes. My granddad was a pyro in the Allaman and not that I ever saw him do that.

But when he was a young man. And I always loved the theatre.

What was your first job in your left school?

I was a mechanic in a garage, your apprentice mechanic.

A good one? No, terrible. And then?

Thank you very much. Here's your cards.

After that? Oh, you named it. I did it. I really couldn't settle. I was in and out of jobs, you know.

What sort of jobs?

I worked in the laundry. I was a labourer, a milkman, a gardener.

I used to chew bread for gummy women. That was just as a sideline.

And I had all the job, you name them, I did it.

And when did comic ink come into it?

Well, I was always the...

You know one of these kids who had this smart back answering school and that.

I suppose, right out face to he young man.

I went on holiday with it with a group of footballers, actually.

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