Summary
Robin Askwith experienced isolation as a child with polio. In a conversation with Matthew Sweet, he reflects on a career running from the Confessions sex comedies to arthouse cinema working with directors including Lindsay Anderson and Pier Paolo Pasolini. His first film role was playing the schoolboy, Keating, in the film if.... and his most recent TV role has seen him appear on Coronation Street.
Producer: Robyn Read
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the home of the oxymoron. Evil genius. He asked the newspaper to print his obituary early so he'd enjoy it. That's like hiding at your own funeral. Yeah, a big, great gig. I'm Russell Kane. Join me to weigh in on whether the biggest players in history are more evil or genius. Becoming that rich, I'd say that is some level of genius. It also helps that it's a long time ago, right? |
| 0:23.3 | It's like the podcast version of telling your kids the ice cream van plays music when it's |
| 0:27.5 | out of ice cream. |
| 0:28.8 | Listen to evil genius on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:33.2 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:37.1 | Quick, quick, quick, hide in the wardrobe. |
| 0:39.2 | My name's Matthew Sweet and I need to tell you that Robin Asquith, |
| 0:42.4 | star of 1970s sex comedies and arthouse movies, |
| 0:46.4 | is the subject of this edition of the Arts and Ideas podcast. |
| 0:50.0 | So you stay hidden and I'll try to look composed during these messages. |
| 0:54.6 | Hello, I'm Jess Gillum. I play the saxophone and I really think you should subscribe to my new podcast, This Classical Life. |
| 1:01.0 | If you're like me and always listening to music, this is a great new way of discovering sounds for your playlists. |
| 1:06.2 | It's when I want something really groovy and really funky. |
| 1:11.6 | Every week I'm joined by a special guest and we share the latest tracks we just can't stop playing. |
| 1:16.2 | I also have this playlist of my phone called 5am and it's full of classical music. |
| 1:20.7 | Just head to BBC Sounds and subscribe to this classical life. |
| 1:27.1 | There is an England. We saw it on the screen back in the 1970s, a suburban |
| 1:32.7 | England where housewives wait behind floral curtains listening for the clank and the slosh of a |
| 1:39.2 | water-filled bucket carried by the answer to their fantasies. And there's another, one where school hymns are sung, |
| 1:46.7 | junior boys are caned in the dormitories, and worse, and everything ends in violent insurrection. |
| 1:53.4 | This edition of Freethinking talks to a man who occupied both these countries. He was that |
| 1:58.8 | priapic worker in confessions of a window cleaner and its |
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