Desert Island Discs is a radio programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4. It’s beyond class, age, gender, demographics; it’s just a great, warm, big, funny comedy.”. I just saw this thing about the 18th century from Stephen Fry, and now I’m learning the same thing.’ Teenagers understand that QI is, in its very quiet way, a revolutionary act, in the way that Spitting Image was for the 15-year-olds of the early Eighties.”, This thought segues into one of Lloyd’s bugbears – the bureaucratic, managerial nature of television comedy commissioning, particularly at the BBC, and the consequent messing-about with shows because of lack of confidence. The controller was like a king with a lot of regional baronies who had a great deal of power.”. Kirsty Young talks to Danish chef Rene Redzepi. He is currently the presenter of BBC Radio 4's The Museum of Curiosity. “It never occurred to me. . At the end of the programme they choose the one piece they regard most highly. Would Bernie Sanders have outperformed Joe Biden in the US election? Excerpts from their choices are played or, in the case of short pieces, the whole work. “You’ll just have to keep plugging away at me, Helen, however long it takes, because I’ve done a lot of things today . “Hard work,” he says simply. Earlier he had told me: “If you press my commissioning editor management button, I just get so cross, because all I want to say to these people is: ‘Get out of my f***ing way. “You could blow the thing open in three months, you really could.”, He remains unperturbed by the idea that his criticisms of the system might make him unpopular. They worked together to design Maggie's Centres - a series of practical and beautifully-designed buildings to give information and support to people with cancer. Kirsty Young talks to Nobel Prize-winning physicist Sir Andre Geim. Since 2018 the programme has been presented by Lauren Laverne. His interview was recorded in front of an audience at St George's in Bristol and launched Radio 4's More Than Words Festival. Clear is what it is not: less than one reader in cent mille knows what ithyphallic means. She started off as a GP, turning to psychiatry after finding a huge proportion of her patients were suffering from emotional and social problems. Lloyd currently presents the radio series The Museum of Curiosity (2011), which he co-created with producers Richard Turner and Dan Schreiber and former co-host Bill Bailey. Until late September 2009, Desert Island Discs could not be heard on the BBC's iPlayer service, which allows most programmes to be heard up to a week after transmission. He wrote the songs for the Royal Shakespeare Company's musical Matilda - the production of Roald Dahl's children's story has been a smash hit on the West End, won seven Olivier awards and is due to transfer to Broadway next year. The seeds of his success were sown amid the complex political terrain of the Ivory Coast with an extended family heavily involved in politics and a father imprisoned for his beliefs. [14] One of the most remarked broadcasts was Elisabeth Schwarzkopf's 1958 selection of seven of her own recordings. That is wilful, isn’t it?”, I tell him that many people with depression find any kind of “snap out of it” rhetoric offensive. It’s not called Quite Interesting for nothing . On Christmas Eve he began to wonder what the point of it was: all those years spent demanding perfection. In conversation with Michael Parkinson, he recalls his life and career and also chooses the eight records he would take to the mythical island. Kirsty Young talks to comedian Sarah Millican. He did, however, grant a special dispensation to Princess Michael of Kent, who chose her pet cat. Do you want to be famous? She says: "There have been times when I've thought, just as I get things right, fate steps in and kicks the steps from under m... Kirsty Young's castaway is the novelist, historian and biographer, Peter Ackroyd. In the years since, her campaigning has resulted in a shift in public attitudes, laws being changed and policing methods overhauled. . [15][16] This record was subsequently beaten by British pianist Dame Moura Lympany on her second appearance on the programme on 28 July 1979 when all eight of her selections were of her own recordings. She worked with James Mason, Yul Brynner, Deborah Kerr and Peter Ustinov and calmed the nerves of Tennessee Williams. Ken Dodd’s tickling stick is clearly in the ithyphallic tradition.” I love that “clearly”. Never one of the fashion world's flamboyant self promoters she... Kirsty Young's castaway is the Paralympian & broadcaster Ade Adepitan. That said, the boundaries were never as clear-cut as they appeared in the press, or even in the Scumbag College v Footlights College division satirised in the University Challenge episode of The Young Ones. Blessed not only with rich, clear tenor tones he also possesses the good looks o... Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the designer Celia Birtwell. Not obviously youth-oriented (and accordingly garish and hyperactive) comedies such as BBC3’s Lee Nelson’s Well Good Show? “It was ridiculous. [20], Until late September 2009, Desert Island Discs could not be heard on the BBC's iPlayer service, which allows most programmes to be heard up to a week after transmission. Isn’t everyone watching American dramas on Netflix, or endless repeats on Dave? Featuring David Beckham, the funniest and most moving moments, animations and quizzes. “But he can cope with famous people because the work always comes first.”, John Lloyd was born in Dover in 1951 but his father was in the navy, so the family lived abroad and moved often. “I think he’s the cleverest person I know,” says John Mitchinson, who has worked with him for 12 years as co-producer of QI. By 35, he had The News Quiz, Not the Nine O’Clock News and Spitting Image to his credit. A film script was rejected for being late; he was fired from projects he started. You do believe me, don’t you?”, Afterliff by John Lloyd and Jon Canter is out now (Faber: £9.99). He claims that “The entire experience of theatre-going, for the Greeks, was phalluscentred . “He was this very unprepossessing, tiny little grey man in his grey raincoat, anonymous in the street, and he’d come into my office to prepare. “Recently I’ve started to think that I’ve only ever had one idea,” he tells me when I meet him at QI’s offices in Covent Garden a few days later. I am not working because I want to win a prize – I grew out of that a while ago – or because I want people to think better of me. This page was last edited on 4 October 2020, at 19:39 (UTC). I work because it’s worth doing for its own sake. “I know an awful lot of 13-year-olds who know our books off by heart. His first new TV series for 14 years, QI starring Stephen Fry (Sandi Toksvig from 2016) and Alan Davies, began on 11 September 2003 at 10pm on BBC Two for a run of 12 episodes. Remembering the Queen's coronation, she says: "We had only just recovered from six or seve... Kirsty Young's castaway is the agony aunt and writer Denise Robertson. If the comedy work ever dries up he could open a shop selling second hand Baftas - he's won a stack of them and a Grammy and an Emmy. He has worked as a TV commercials director on and off since 1987. Talent-spotted in his teens, he went on to spend two years touring the world with Peter Brook's Mahabharata. . Goldie is an Academy Award winner and producer who's been on the A list for 40-odd years, starring alongside Peter Sellers, Walter Matthau and Woody Allen. This, he thinks, is where his reputation as a “perfectionist” (read “pain in the arse”) comes from. The difference this time was that the pre-depression Lloyd had been able to shrug that off as an inevitable part of the creative process. A pilot episode of the show was recorded under this name in mid-1990, with Lloyd hosting alongside team captains Ian Hislop and Paul Merton. “I’d always been a bit melancholic, but the heavyweight depression came like a safety curtain descending; it went clunk, just completely blotting everything out.”. It’s a lot to do with you,” he says now. Singer-songwriter Lily Allen is interviewed by Kirsty Young. It meant he felt less in their shadow than his contemporaries when creating a satirical programme of his own.). Lloyd was replaced by Angus Deayton as host and the show was renamed Have I Got News for You in time for its debut on BBC2 later that year. He has previously described it as “like being bullied by a giant bear, and every time I tried to pick myself up, I was smacked down again”. His mainstream credits range from TV roles in the Vicar of Dibley and Rev, to screen credits for The Last King of Scotland and Harry Potter. Wheelchair basketball's his sport and this year he partnered Claire Balding anchoring the television coverage of the 2012 London Paralympics. Now his resilience was gone. They should put us Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, it doesn’t matter what, but 9.30pm on BBC1, and we would be delivering consistently five million.”, But isn’t the era of mass viewing – of Only Fools and Horses topping 20 million on Christmas Day – over?

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