Pauline Quirke

Desert Island Discs

BBC

Society & Culture, Music Commentary, Music, Personal Journals

4.4 • 13.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 1996

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

BBC TV's Birds Of A Feather is one of the country's favourite comedy programmes, attracting audiences of 14 or 15 million on a Sunday evening. This week, one of its co-stars, Pauline Quirke, will be cast well away from Chigwell as she prepares to set sail for Radio 4's desert island.

Known more famously perhaps as Sharon of Sharon 'n' Tracey, she'll be talking to Sue Lawley about her poor upbringing in London's East End, her first role as a child arsonist at the age of 10 in Dixon of Dock Green and her most recent appearance as a 22-stone putative murderess in The Sculptress.

[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Kesti Young, and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs archive.
0:05.0	For rights reasons, we've had to shorten the music.
0:08.2	The program was originally broadcast in 1996, and the presenter was Sue Lolly. My cast away this week is an actress, still only 36 she's come a long way from her poor upbringing. A Most recently she appeared as a 22 stone murderous in the sculptress on BBC 1.
0:46.0	But her first role came when she was only 10 as a child arsonist in Dixon of Doc Green.
0:51.0	These sinister characters are hardly typical. With her lifelong
0:55.1	friend and co-star Linda Robson she's kept the nation laughing. First as
0:59.3	Veronica in Shine on Harvey Moon and most famously of all a Sharon in birds of a feather.
1:05.0	Success may have brought her money but it hasn't turned her head.
1:09.0	Acting she believes is just a job and she'd probably be just as happy doing something else. She is Pauline Quirk. What else would you be happy
1:17.4	Pauline doing? I mean you've done acting for so long and you can't imagine doing anything else.
1:21.7	I can't like writing. else. I quite like writing I
1:23.4	quite like to I want to have the discipline to write though and you fancy
1:26.3	catering? Oh I love yeah I love cooking and stuff like that I do enjoy
1:30.2	that but being normal as I understand it from
1:33.0	from that about you, being ordinary. It's something that you
1:35.3	bend over backwards to stress, isn't it? I haven't got an ordinary job. I
1:38.8	understand that. When I go out shopping people obviously recognize me and
1:42.3	what have you. But at the end of the day you
1:43.8	don't think in every waking moment of that oh yes I'm famous I'm on television because I know
1:48.6	you still get your ass worked well absolutely you still go to the supermarket but somehow it seems to be very strong in you that you want to retain touch with reality, I think maybe the reason is because when I started acting, I mean it was a little drama club. It wasn wasn't I didn't go to a drama school I had no
2:05.7	designs on being famous one day I was nine years of age and it was a club where kids go to
2:10.8	bronies or whatever.
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