Joanna Lumley and Stephen Barlow
Happy Place
Fearne Cotton
4.6 • 15.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Does music have the power to emotionally transport you? It certainly does for actress Joanna Lumley and composer Stephen Barlow. Married for nearly 40 years, they share a huge passion for classical music in particular.
In this chat with Fearne, Joanna and Stephen explain how music and performing are threads that have always woven their lives together, as well as wondering that sometimes external noise and chatter has to be quietened in order for us to be creative.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Happy Place with me, Fern Cotton. This is the show that |
| 0:06.7 | encourages you to be unapologetically passionate about what brings you joy. |
| 0:11.8 | Today I'm chatting to Joanne Lomley and Stephen Barlow. When I was down, down, down |
| 0:19.2 | in the old, old, old days, if I ever got a bloom, I would put on Beethoven's |
| 0:23.4 | eroica and I'd play it very loud and it cleared, it literally cleared |
| 0:27.5 | gloom out of the place and you suddenly think, oh the world's okay, it sets |
| 0:32.3 | things back to normal. You know when things are jangled and out of stuff and you |
| 0:35.5 | don't know how to make them, you don't seem to be able to make it work. Beethoven |
| 0:39.0 | finishes the jigsaw puzzle, magic. Joanne and Stephen have been married for |
| 0:43.5 | nearly 40 years. Joanne's, of course, an actor, presenter, author and campaigner. |
| 0:49.8 | Stephen is a conductor, composer and musician and they've got loads of shared |
| 0:55.0 | passions but one of the biggest is classical music. They've made a new |
| 0:59.8 | podcast together which is brilliant called Joanna and the Maestro and I'm |
| 1:03.8 | obsessed with the idea because Joanna as the enthusiastic music amateur |
| 1:08.6 | are Stephen, all these brilliant questions about music like why do certain |
| 1:13.7 | pieces of music make us feel particular way but it also shows that no matter |
| 1:19.0 | how long we've known someone there's always more to learn if only we choose |
| 1:23.5 | to be curious about one another and the world around us. Now I cannot tell you |
| 1:28.6 | how excited I was to embark on this conversation. I've wanted Joanna on the |
| 1:34.2 | podcast since the start of Happy Place and finally it has happened and I'm |
| 1:42.0 | over the moon about it. |
| 1:45.8 | Hello there, this is Deborah from the Guilty Feminist Podcast, the podcast |
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