Hello I'm Kirstie 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 1987 and the presenter was Michael Parkinson. A cast away is an actress who started a career as a very small child. By the time she was 11

she had appeared in more than a dozen television plays and series. At 12 she was

on stage in the Sound of Music. In her teen she made her screen debut and has been a film star for more than 20 years.

She's also a producer, a writer of songs, and the author of a recently published book of poems.

She is Susan George.

Susan, given that you started at this career such an early age, can we assume that you came from a showbiz background?

Yes, you can. I mean, in terms of my mother was certainly showbiz orientated, my father much more music

background because he was a jazz musician.

They had a club, my parents, when I was very, very young, called the Starboard Club at Twickenham.

And daddy used to go out gigging all the time and mommy was sort of running the club.

And so music was a greater part of my life.

A most amazing story about that if I may tell you this.

I was one time at this club. It was a bit of a... I mean, mommy would not like me to hear me

say it was a bit of a rough diamond club. But in those days I think it was, or at least I thought

so from my vision as a very, very tiny child, there would be some rough type sometimes that would

stay on late and there used to be be I remember a few sort of bar in

brawls and things like that when I would be whisked away and in one particular

instance I will never forget I had gone up to the starboard Club with my nanny at that time who was Doris.

And it was late in the evening and I'd been sleeping and they were now going to take me

back home and I came out. they were whisking me through the bar

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