Hi, it's Nicola Cochlin. Young people have been making history for years, but we don't often hear about them. My brand new series on BBC Sounds sets out to put this right. In history's youngest heroes, I'll be revealing the fascinating stories of 12 young people who've played a major role in history and who've helped shape our world. Like Audrey Hepburn, Nelson Mandela, Louis Braille and Lady Jane Grey,

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Hello, I'm Krista Young, and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs Archive.

For rights reasons, we've had to shorten the music.

The program was originally broadcast in 2007.

My car My castaway this week is the actress Joanna Lumley.

She came to fame as the high-kicking glamour-pouspurdie in the 1970s show The New Avengers.

But the role that cemented her in the nation's psyche was patsy in absolutely fabulous.

A striking beauty with a cut-glass accent she had until then tended to play a certain sort of sexy toff.

Yet in Ab-Fab she stole the show as a shallow, freeloading alcoholic has been,

famous for her towering chignon and withering one-liners.

Along with displaying a formidable comic talent, it was a role that toyed cleverly with her public persona, hinting at her own professional beginnings as a model at the precise moment

in the 60s when London really started to swing.

Joanne Lumley, let's start with Patsy then.

What did you think when you first saw the

character on paper? Well, she didn't really emerge until sort of episode two or three. And even

Adina wasn't as kind of wild. They both grew like ghastly sort of septic funguses in the corner.

You know, they just got worse and worse. And Pat's hair got taller and taller.

And the smoking became more and more obsessive

until they were on about 120 a day.

Their language got fowler.

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