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Full Disclosure with James O'Brien

Robert Lindsay

Full Disclosure with James O'Brien

Global

Society & Culture

4.63.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

He’s known mostly to his younger fans for playing Ben Harper in the decade-long running sitcom, My Family and to an older audience as the eponymous Marxist in Citizen Smith. In this episode of Full Disclosure James is joined by the BAFTA and Olivier award-winning actor Robert Lindsay who discusses moving from humble beginnings in the Derbyshire industrial town of Ilkeston to being accepted at the highly selective and prestigious drama school, RADA, where his dramatic career began.

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0:00.0

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0:05.1

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player original podcast.

0:43.6

Hello and welcome to full disclosure, a podcast project which I always introduced by explaining that it's conceived chiefly to let me spend more time with interesting people

0:48.0

than would be available on my radio show.

0:49.8

And it's always true, but sometimes it's more true than at other times.

0:53.8

And this week's guest couldn't fit more completely into that category.

0:58.6

Robert Lindsay, star of stage and screen.

1:01.5

Thank you for doing this.

1:04.0

And I mean, you must hear this a lot.

1:06.4

But what was fascinating when I told people you were coming on

1:09.1

was that you have a sort of special place in the hearts of multiple generations.

1:14.6

So my mum, who's in her 80s, she remembers seeing you in Leaping Ginger at the Royal Exchange.

1:20.6

Wow.

1:21.6

And she said, it was with that other famous actor.

1:25.6

And I said, that hasn't really narrowed it down mum and then and then that would be what 77 probably or yeah exactly that 78 yeah 77 78

1:35.7

wow actually just waiting to do the podcast waiting for you to come from your work this morning

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