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to my travel podcast, Life's

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a Beach. Every

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week I invite a special guest to

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take us on a journey together to

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their favorite holiday destinations and to reveal

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their top travel tips and tales.

1:48

Well, guess who we've got on

1:50

Life's a Beach today? We've got

1:52

a platinum selling recording artist and

1:54

master of musical theatre, Fluffy Rivers,

1:56

who'll be touring the UK with

1:58

his long-awaited career. Oh

2:01

out with the shop lifting nice of

2:03

the i called a lot the of

2:05

follow that chances I've to Apollo club

2:07

goes royal couple of the hold. As

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said, the whole. Coasters I

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snatched.com K K about

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standing ovation. To the top

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of a lengthy I award winning national.

2:18

Treasure Studies by whom.

2:21

Oh. Come

2:30

on the moon and co. Oh.

2:33

Oh oh oh

2:36

oh oh. Oh.

2:52

Look who we got booted

2:54

my who moon and and

2:56

you fly your land. Use

3:00

to. Be

3:03

speaking few notable give yeah I the

3:05

heebie jeebies know to be reduced. Political

3:11

kind of a Travel around you

3:13

armed and will you like traveling?

3:16

I'm not kidding. Sigma home from.

3:19

Their boots and waiting.

3:21

And. People who were on their

3:24

resume is a nightmare. Yeah, yeah, but

3:26

I might get into places among visiting

3:28

new places and. If. You

3:30

put the right and if you got the

3:32

right seats yeah and you know what you

3:34

doing here then it's fine to is the

3:36

fun I might be on board he has

3:38

month of yeah you got my pillow glasses

3:40

and nine or not some complementary not the

3:43

subs but then i found myself in that

3:45

me to one where they took to bow

3:47

is isn't it crush you got to pull

3:49

that yank the dorm room with me and

3:51

I know with a woman looked at my

3:53

wrists and with lives ruined him enough that

3:55

i have a smoking habit was in guy

3:57

we need a good i read it. young

4:00

kid I was okay but yeah

4:02

she was like we're gone. I

4:05

made the point when I

4:07

was much much younger and I was flying to see some

4:09

friends in LA and these

4:13

are the days when you could smoke on a plane.

4:15

I am an old man and

4:17

and so you know all you're doing is

4:19

praying for the no smoking sign to go

4:21

off. You still have to keep your seatbelt

4:23

on but you can spark up straight away

4:25

but flew all the way to LA at

4:27

the back of the plane and I

4:29

said then I will never do this again.

4:32

If I can't turn left yeah

4:34

I'm not flying. Isn't that grand?

4:37

I had no money. I literally had no

4:39

money and and but I said it's not

4:41

worth it because it ruined the experience. Getting

4:43

there I just couldn't get over it. But

4:45

the great thing is kids when people used

4:47

to smoke on a plane you smoke to

4:50

the back didn't you? Because smoke didn't go

4:52

forward did it? If you were non-smoke it

4:54

was great. The

4:57

terrible thing I did

4:59

I flew Concord quite

5:01

a few times. It was the

5:04

greatest thing. I

5:07

was rehearsing Aspects of Love on Broadway

5:09

and this is sounding so name-dropping but

5:12

I don't care. We

5:14

love name-dropping. So first of all

5:16

you get on Concord and immediately you're

5:18

looking around going so if we go

5:20

down who's getting top billing and

5:22

who is also on board was?

5:27

And I'm going no we're all right. And

5:30

then on comes a member of the Royal Family

5:33

and you think oh no. Anyway

5:35

so I'm flying back

5:38

from New York. I was like that on

5:40

a plane with Jane McDonald. I thought well

5:42

there's me right. And fair enough.

5:44

A fat homosexual also died. But

5:55

this was I mean I'm in rehearsals and

5:58

I'd won an award back in England. So

6:00

they put me on Concord, flew me back,

6:02

went straight from the airport to the Dorchester,

6:04

got an award, got back on Concord

6:07

and it was amazing. Three and

6:09

a half hours you're in New York. Phenomenal.

6:13

But the last time I'd

6:15

flown it, you couldn't smoke on it. And

6:18

I'm going on now. I made friends with all

6:20

the people and they said, let

6:22

me show you what you do. So I went down

6:24

to the galley, which is right at the back, and

6:26

they said, just open the sink and

6:29

it sucks. So I have a fad

6:31

leaning over the sink with the thing

6:33

open. Absolutely. That's amazing.

6:37

And this happens, apparently. Of course

6:39

you would. But

6:43

in lose on the thing, if you open

6:45

and flush and keep

6:47

going, then it sucks it all in.

6:50

Oh, that's good. You pretend you're being sick,

6:52

but actually you're just like, oh, that food

6:55

was disgusting. But

6:57

I no longer smoke cigarettes. Oh, that's

6:59

good. It was amazing. And you'd always

7:01

see the most extraordinary people. Yeah, I

7:04

bet. First thing, Joan Collins. I

7:06

imagine she'd fly off. Oh, she would never off. She

7:10

was a trolley dolly at one point. She's

7:13

actually homeless. She's kept flying back and

7:15

forth. No,

7:21

it was and you literally would

7:23

see everybody. I remember

7:26

the biggest boost to my ego ever

7:28

was getting on it. And this bloke came on and

7:30

he was sitting next to me and he had his earphones

7:32

in and he went, my

7:34

God, I'm listening to you. I

7:37

went, oh, hello. And his

7:39

name was Rob Harling and he wrote

7:41

Steel Magnolias. Oh, and he said,

7:43

I'm just going. I'm just about to do soap

7:45

dish. Remember, Sally Field

7:48

and whoopee gold, Robert Downey Jr. And

7:50

he was showing me the script and

7:52

I'm going, this is the life. I

7:54

was boned for. This

7:57

is why I don't turn right. Wow.

8:00

I don't know, maybe. Stressed

8:02

about flying? Need that

8:05

nicotine hit now? Why

8:07

not go to the box, slip

8:09

down on your knees, and start

8:11

puffing on that cigarette down the toilet

8:14

pan? Inhale those

8:16

fumes before they go. Down

8:18

the u-bed, linger it, rain-smiths off, can you

8:20

crack nachis after you've been to a rough

8:23

life, and kept floating bombing? Now,

8:25

listen, you were born in Bromscrove. I

8:27

was. Is that local roadbus? Is that the

8:29

accident? Yes, very much so. I got moved

8:31

away when I was three, so it never

8:33

affected me. And we moved

8:35

down to Pymouth, which is even worse, actually. You

8:38

talk like that down there, right, my love? Beautiful,

8:41

proper job. So where did your holiday,

8:44

when you were king? I suppose in Pymouth, that

8:46

is like the holiday place. Well, you'd go down

8:48

to Newquay, or you'd go down Cornwall on days

8:50

out. Tim Taggill was a favourite. Oh, yeah. You

8:52

know King Arthur and all that. But

8:55

we never really went on family holidays.

8:59

You know, we'd have weekends, but we never

9:01

sort of went away. Our holidays, we just

9:03

loved going to stay with my grand in

9:05

Wales, in South Wales. We did

9:07

go on one big family holiday once

9:10

to Sardinia. And

9:13

I would have been eight. My

9:15

mum was very pregnant with my sister. And

9:18

it was the Forte village, now very cool.

9:20

It had just opened. The

9:22

Forte village in Sardinia. And

9:24

I remember that they had this, like

9:28

not a pyramid, but like a temple or something.

9:30

You were meant to walk up. It was so

9:32

hot. My mum out here pregnant. And

9:34

halfway up, she's like, just

9:36

giving it all of that. So eight

9:38

years old, I'm not able to make the

9:41

top. I'm there, whooping my mother's brow, as

9:43

my father and my brother go. Karen,

9:46

yeah, you look after mum. You'll be fine.

9:49

Because I was in Sardinia, isn't there a hermit

9:51

who lives on that island? You can see the

9:53

little house. We call him Dad. We

9:57

left him there. Oh

10:00

my God! Am

10:03

I a loser? Yes,

10:05

because I was in the Costa

10:07

Smeralda, that bit. That was really nice.

10:09

I never did that. No, there's a hermit. Yes, lovely,

10:12

yeah, the man that was a hermit. You can just

10:14

see his little house on the island. He didn't like

10:16

come off. Could you be a hermit? Oh

10:18

no. Can I do me? No. People

10:21

would like me to be a hermit. But does

10:23

Amazon still deliver to a hermit? If

10:26

there was a livery, I could be a hermit. Yeah,

10:31

it could work. So listen, when you went

10:33

on these holidays, when you were old, a

10:35

teenager, did you have any holiday romances? Did

10:37

I have holiday? Oh yes, of course one

10:39

did. We had this one

10:41

brilliant holiday, my first year in drama school,

10:44

and it was, all right, we're all going

10:46

to the Greek islands, big

10:48

group of us, and we got to Brindisi, to

10:50

the port. We said, right,

10:52

we're all going to go off on different boats to

10:54

different places, meet on this island, gather

10:57

people up, tell our adventures, and then

10:59

carry on again. It was

11:01

Britain. And we have ended up with this great

11:03

crowd of people who we all just toured around

11:05

the different islands. Oh, that's nice. It was really

11:07

cool. Now where is your

11:10

favourite place to go? Mallorca. Hundreds

11:12

of them. You didn't even think about that. You didn't have

11:14

to think about that. Why Mallorca? Well,

11:16

we went there. Kath and I went

11:19

there. Actually, Kath went first while

11:21

I was doing a gig overseas. She and

11:23

my musical director's wife said, we're

11:25

not just sitting around doing nothing, so

11:28

we're going to go to Mallorca. And they

11:30

went and they stayed and they lived there.

11:32

A hotel called the Marisale, quite

11:34

near Parma. So we

11:37

said, oh, we'll go. So we

11:39

went and joined them there. And it

11:41

was fantastic. And then we found,

11:43

we rented, I don't like hotels. I like villas.

11:46

I like to get up. Why don't you like hotels?

11:48

Because I want to get up in my pants when

11:50

I want to, make breakfast when I want to. You

11:52

guys still do that at a hotel? Yes, and that's

11:54

why they won't have you back. That's

11:57

why you're blacklisted. Were you walking around that

11:59

or you could... I need that, eh? Oh

12:01

no, I like that! But no, I like being in... I

12:05

like cooking, I like... I've

12:07

seen a thought. I thought you were down to

12:09

earth. I like villas, I don't

12:11

turn left, I've always got a concord. Well

12:14

look! Do you ever rough it? No!

12:17

Of course I rough it! You're

12:20

from Brunch as well. You're just kind of

12:22

thin. Don't you? I

12:25

once went to a McDonald's. I've been

12:27

your drive-through, Greg. I love you! I

13:02

feel good! Dad, are you singing into your

13:04

stereo? Yes

13:07

I am, like I knew that I would! No,

13:09

I dance too? Come

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13:13

morning on a high note. Yow! Songs,

13:17

dances, and die jokes? It's so

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13:22

a you! Mmm.

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Silk almond milk. With

13:26

calcium, vitamins A, D, and E. Um,

13:29

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14:01

I think villas are less yugy than hotels.

14:04

Yes, I get it. I get it because and then

14:06

you know you get there and it's listen It's nice

14:08

to have people there. We seem to knock on the

14:10

door when you're doing something and yeah, do you know

14:12

what I mean? I thought they're waiting for you to

14:14

be made. I want to know where I'm

14:16

gonna be sitting by the pool. I don't want to be going

14:18

down at 6 in the morning. Yeah, you're right. You are right.

14:21

We... Just

14:23

think of the bottle. We went to Cyprus

14:25

and we were at this lovely... the Obama

14:28

I think then. Was it the Obama? The

14:30

Obama! No, not Obama.

14:33

The Obama... I can't remember the name

14:35

of the hotel. Can I check in? Yes you can. But

14:38

there was... And it

14:40

was a lovely, lovely hotel.

14:42

Really amazing hotel. But we'd

14:44

get up and all

14:46

the beds, all the decent beds were going on. And do

14:48

you know who was the worst one for doing it? David

14:51

Dickinson. No! Yes,

14:53

David Dickinson. If he needed to tan

14:55

even more. I mean, he's like

14:57

a teak. We'd see him. We'd

14:59

see him and I'm going, I'm not having

15:01

it. And I did that thing. I snuck

15:03

out before breakfast and put my towels on

15:06

his bed. Good. Good. So

15:09

I don't like hotels much. And

15:12

also, you know this, we're travelling so much on

15:14

the road and so on. You

15:16

can do a PhD in hotels. Yes, yes. And

15:18

they're all much of a much. Some nicer than

15:20

others. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But... That

15:22

is the one thing, isn't it, when you do

15:24

travel. And I was reading Billy Connolly's biography and

15:26

he was saying, you know, when

15:29

you're a stand-up comedian or any performer, travelling

15:31

just becomes, you get on that plane

15:33

and it feels like you're off to

15:35

work, whereas he said he just prefers staying

15:37

at home. And everyone thinks that you

15:39

get to see all the most exotic

15:41

places. No. You see

15:43

the inside of hotel rooms. Yeah, yeah. And

15:47

you see lobbies and the hotel bar and the

15:49

venue. I did a Canadian tour. He said, you're

15:51

going to see three things on this tour. He's

15:53

like, woohoo! He says, the foyer, your bedroom and

15:55

the venue. I only saw one Rocky. You know

15:58

what it's called? The Rockies. Yeah. one

16:00

rocky because there was a man. Was

16:02

that the one with Dolph Lundgren? Yes! Oh! What's

16:12

the worst place you've been? And we're not naming a shame,

16:14

this is a very positive... I blooming am, I'm sorry. No,

16:18

no, is there been any where you've gone, okay,

16:20

maybe the Ashwood Tower's a bit disappointing,

16:22

or you know... Um, I'm just trying

16:25

to... I mean, I've had a disastrous holiday where...

16:30

Oh, never forgiving. So I persuaded, Kath

16:32

and I were kind of early into

16:34

our relationship, and

16:37

I said to her, we should go away for New Year. Take

16:40

Emma, her daughter, and her boyfriend Dean, we're going

16:42

to go away for New Year. And

16:45

she's very good mates with Timothy

16:47

Dalton. She phones... Oh, yeah.

16:51

She phones Timothy Dalton, and says, we're going

16:53

to go to the Caribbean, where should we

16:55

go? And he'd just been filming

16:57

Living Daylights, or the other one. Yeah. He'd

17:00

been filming a Bond film. And he said, oh, we

17:02

had the most... I stayed afterwards at

17:04

the Emerald, the Nelson, or the

17:06

Emerald... I

17:08

can't remember the name of the blooming place,

17:11

at this lovely hotel in Antigua.

17:13

Go there. And

17:16

I thought, well, if blooming Bond is safe...

17:18

Yeah. So it was quite cheap as well.

17:20

I thought, this would be terrific. We

17:23

arrive, and Tim is like, this action man who

17:25

likes deep sea fishing. So

17:29

we walk in to piles of fish guts.

17:33

People... I mean, I'm not kidding you. People sleuthing themselves

17:35

down. The worst rooms you've

17:38

ever... I mean, just a cot in a

17:40

room. And can we get a cup of tea?

17:45

Well, there's a kettle over there. I

17:47

mean, it was as rough as old boots.

17:49

And Kath, who likes the nice things in

17:52

life, went, no. No,

17:55

I... Bear in mind, this

17:57

is the 29th. of

18:00

December. Yeah, you ain't gonna find anywhere else.

18:02

So I said, listen, you guys, I'm just

18:05

gonna, I'm knackered, I just finished a tour,

18:07

I'm knackered, I'm gonna lie down, come back

18:09

when you saved our lives. So

18:11

the three of them went off touring round, came

18:14

back with a load of KFC. Because we

18:16

couldn't get anything to catch. You had to

18:18

go and catch your own food before you.

18:20

None of us are particularly, you

18:24

know, deep sea fishermen sports guy that. She

18:27

came back with a load of KFC.

18:30

So we found a hotel who

18:32

have got a room, and we can go

18:34

and stay there. It's called the Colonia. So

18:36

we drove up in this dodgy

18:38

old taxi to this this hotel, just

18:41

thrilled that it was an actual hotel and it

18:43

had a bedroom and then going so

18:45

we sat in the foyer of this

18:47

hotel waiting for them to do all the night,

18:51

wait for them to do. And all

18:53

of us going, oh, a bit itchy.

18:55

Oh no. Attacked by a load of

18:57

mosquitoes. I mean, but properly.

18:59

Yeah. A&E. A&E.

19:02

Yeah, Emma had a really bad

19:04

reaction. Oh, old back she was

19:06

wearing back the sea. Yeah. Completely

19:09

just as I, and then finally, we got

19:12

there, got a little color mind given

19:15

all the antihistamines, got home, woken

19:18

at 7.30 by a steel band

19:20

outside our window. And

19:23

it was like never ever again. But

19:28

I think it was, I think it was.

19:33

So I was worried then you're going to end

19:36

with and then David Dickinson turned up. Not

19:39

even he would have stayed there. So

19:41

that was it. So we learned our

19:43

lesson. But listen, I feel I mean,

19:45

I've been to A&E, absolutely gorgeous, but

19:47

those mosquitoes are a different breed. They

19:49

are proper. They're like waiting in the

19:51

toilet with a cosh. You know what

19:53

I mean? They're waiting for you to

19:55

come out and get him. Mugs,

19:58

oh, mug. Are You one of those that they. It

20:00

goes yeah yeah they look up my

20:02

ankles and think Big Mac mail months

20:04

six months whom is just not fair

20:06

and speaking at all when you're going

20:08

on soul of yes I am vs.

20:10

I've not seen the price you paid

20:12

some gorgeous veggies and ah sing and

20:14

landed the Apollo. The air isn't a

20:16

lovely I love that. What I'm not

20:18

really is now I did. So I

20:20

have a i have a record at

20:22

the at the Apollo. I was the

20:24

last person to play it as the

20:26

Hammersmith Odeon. Yeah, the first person to

20:28

play as the opponent. Surveys on

20:31

a Sunday and Monday night. So

20:38

I've got final night yeah you're Paulo.

20:40

Finalize the urgent food out of the

20:42

at the opponent is a really special

20:44

room because you when you think the

20:46

pavement be owes ballet yet I have

20:48

me once played that he has a

20:50

slight the Palladium yeah the Albert Yang

20:52

and also it's are just have to

20:54

walk over the bridge and I'm home.

20:56

Awesome So he said yeah. So

20:59

when you play in there that says

21:01

is it March to get March seventeenth

21:03

All one doesn't consider enemies. Are you

21:05

adventurous when you go? Away.

21:08

I'm on holiday. Willie labs lot. the

21:10

cricket said the testicles and they yell

21:12

and the fresh meat was he called

21:14

yeah sweetbreads. Analogy: eating weird

21:16

things up. God

21:20

awful. same as that our do. We

21:22

had a lovely holiday in Mexico and

21:24

because I walk around with the cricket

21:26

said yeah they sit and to say

21:29

on i do have a mean. I'll

21:31

try and he said yeah you have

21:34

the worst one I did that was

21:36

in Shanghai when they had bullfrog. Oh.

21:39

Bullfrog Noodles. and

21:42

like not what it's it's a local

21:44

delicacy so i need to try this

21:46

cause she did was make it even

21:48

more excited exactly like edicts i was

21:50

gritty and it was all over a

21:52

good and i was sick but at

21:55

least i can say have tried to

21:57

drag because nobody who that which i

21:59

slide situated If the chicken grew up in Chernobyl. I

22:07

was going to say then, because one

22:10

of the questions they have, you have

22:12

a holiday with anyone famous, but clearly

22:14

you have David Dickinson and

22:16

Timothy Daughan. But he wasn't with us, we'd

22:19

have murdered him. What's

22:21

Alcee Bow like? On holiday, we've never holidayed.

22:23

What we have, I mean we've travelled around

22:26

Japan together and Australia

22:28

together. What's he like, do you get on

22:30

with him? Oh God, yeah. You have to. But

22:32

he's very different from me, you know. He's going

22:34

to be up in the gym first thing in the

22:36

morning. I'm not. What?

22:40

I know where that comes from. But

22:43

this lies and young and youthful figure.

22:45

Yes. He's just genetic. I'm blessed. Yeah,

22:47

you are. Honestly, it's a real gift.

22:55

Have you been with anyone else? Well, we had a

22:57

really cool one. We went to St Bart's. Oh

22:59

nice. Which is the most expensive

23:01

place on God's green earth. I won't

23:03

ever go back. It was ludicrous. Yeah.

23:06

Hence the people that go there. But

23:08

we come out in the morning out

23:10

of our room and there's Hugh Chapman

23:13

in the room next door with his

23:15

lovely wife and his son. And

23:18

yeah, I mean that's not... That is

23:20

amazing. I know you. Yeah. So

23:23

we avoided each other for the entire holiday.

23:26

You kind of think, oh well if they're

23:28

here it must be a good choice of

23:30

place. That's amazing. And you do see people,

23:32

depending on where you are. Oh, one of

23:34

the best ones was bumping into Joan Rivers.

23:38

Oh, I would have loved to bump into her. At

23:40

this brilliant

23:43

hotel called the Grey Cliffs, I think

23:45

it was in NASA. And

23:49

this hotel is one of the oldest

23:51

hotels and it's underneath in the basement

23:53

is the cigar factory. With all the

23:55

people rolling them on their thighs and

23:58

all of that going on. cowards

24:00

and Duke and Duchess of Windsor had

24:02

all gone in the swimming pool and

24:04

it had the most extensive water menu

24:07

in the world. That's posh. A water

24:09

menu. I mean every water. I like

24:11

a chocolate on my pillow. That

24:14

blows me away. I'm like oh very nice. But

24:16

then the trouble is you sometimes go to sleep

24:18

with it on the pillow and you wake up.

24:20

Oh Alan, yeah. People think you've

24:22

had a night. Yeah, where's the pen-a-man?

24:24

I wish I put my pen-a-man on

24:26

last night. That has happened. So

24:29

this extensive water menu. Yeah. Which

24:31

they know that. If you want

24:33

from a particular iceberg in... Why

24:36

don't you do a hotel show

24:38

like that Richard E. Grant? I

24:40

mean you go to the best places. It's

24:42

amazing. Oh well, yeah. I like to

24:44

go to nice... I don't go off... I

24:46

mean you know very rarely we will do

24:49

the hotel. Well you work bloody hard. I

24:51

do work hard. The poshest I think we've

24:53

been to was Splendido. Do I

24:56

mean the Splendis? I'm terrible with

24:58

names. These hotels. You're saying them

25:00

with confidence. People are going to

25:02

be googling these. What? Hotel Obama?

25:05

On the Amalfi Coast. Anyway,

25:07

we had the Gypsy Kings

25:09

were jamming. Yeah. Because they were about to

25:12

do a gig. Rod Stewart was there. This

25:14

is amazing. Yeah. John Cleese

25:17

was there. Yeah. It's

25:19

funny where this kind of sort of thing

25:21

is. Yeah. Where are you all the time?

25:23

I don't think it's for anyone. I

25:26

think people avoid me. I think they hear the

25:28

voice and then they hide it. No one was

25:30

at the resort. It was like a ghost town.

25:33

Oh God. It's hell of a walk around in his pants

25:35

at the all you can eat buffet. Listen,

25:39

you got two Olivier's. One for

25:42

Hairspray and one for Sweeney Todd.

25:44

I went to New York and we watched

25:46

Sweeney Todd on Broadway. I was like, oh,

25:49

it's not my favorite musical, but you've got

25:51

to go and see a musical. I absolutely

25:53

loved it. Did you love it? It

25:55

was the biggest challenge of my life. I loved

25:58

every second. I've never worked hard. Yeah,

26:00

I had this idea. I just

26:03

finished doing hairspray in the

26:05

West End and that had gone really well and

26:07

I thought what is The

26:10

absolute opposite yeah of Edna term

26:13

blade blad overweight agraphobic mother of

26:15

one from Baltimore and Kath

26:17

had seen a Smaller

26:20

production of Sweeney when I was doing

26:22

woman in white on Broadway With

26:24

Patti LuPone and Michael Saveras and she said you

26:26

need to do Sweeney and I thought no It's

26:29

it's it's like the King Lear of

26:31

these. Yeah. Yeah, anyway This

26:35

and I went I'm gonna try

26:37

now. I knew no one

26:39

would cast me the Sweeney, you know if there

26:41

was a big production yet name Michael

26:44

Ball, you know the Nice

26:46

dimpled boy from from the bombs from from

26:48

promsgrove who's just been a mother of one

26:51

if not is not is not the

26:54

natural choice for serial

26:56

killer, but I really felt I could and so

27:00

I had this idea Imelda Staunton came on my

27:02

radio show and We got

27:04

on really well and while a record was playing I

27:06

said so if I can get a production together of

27:09

Sweeney Would you do mrs. Lovett?

27:11

Oh Took

27:14

the idea down to Chichester

27:17

festival. Yeah, which is just Brilliant

27:20

place and They went yeah,

27:22

they got the rights Steve Sontime

27:25

got involved Jonathan Kent directed and

27:27

it was a Glorious

27:29

perfect experience. Wow. And what a

27:32

show. Oh, I know wait. What's

27:34

your ass? What's your hurry? I'm

27:40

just saying we're redoing it Alan. I look

27:42

good in drag I Feel

27:47

like looking like Rose West but Please

27:57

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time I was blown away by

29:37

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29:40

it's not really a musical Israel

29:42

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29:44

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doing leaks dark and that solves

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everything on the all relied on

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the Sally Gallo is it's a

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it. Was adamant that yes, what

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30:01

maneuver analysis of the I got ya. Gotta

30:04

serve as Sfs as if it's ah,

30:06

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30:09

Bloodthirsty. Said yes and that's

30:11

mentioned Judi Dench kind of had

30:14

gone game. you'll Live album. Ah

30:16

and that's what's the wanted to

30:18

write and. He can't

30:20

help but be I'm He's the greatest louis

30:22

in my desk as he and. He

30:25

took sunday was so brave with melodies

30:27

and harmonies, it's the most difficult thing

30:30

to learn. Have you read Barbra Streisand

30:32

spell on as I interviewed already? I

30:37

watch your like that I wasn't

30:39

your live know I interviewed her

30:41

health issue with amazing was normal

30:43

know she was Barbra Streisand Six

30:46

on on the only person. Know

30:49

I was a bit with salt with them. Spielberg.

30:51

but the only I was I was

30:54

really. I am

30:56

one wanted this to be perfect or yeah

30:58

what are you know from from a kid

31:00

know that was. That. Was

31:02

my icon yeah to gray as

31:04

his voice mabel to act through her

31:07

salt and ended a remarkable person. Yeah

31:09

yeah I wanted to get it right.

31:11

Yes and Seuss lovely of I got

31:14

the ot other pope eligible for Allied

31:16

South with forty eight hours and then

31:18

some time mean it with a galley

31:21

is absolutely fascinating that she's like and

31:23

then sometimes it's like he's left a

31:25

voice notes on the phone in

31:28

Iran bags issues I can then I

31:30

don't get this pastrami sandwich. I love

31:32

pastrami. Where was I? Oh yeah like it's

31:34

as though like if I jealous but anecdotes

31:37

that I've never known a Judy Garland they

31:39

she gets rid up Stephen so that when

31:41

she sees the to news sites the lever

31:43

a doctor that's given it's safe to say

31:45

ones that are signs up a little that's

31:48

sat back and written really few love purchase

31:50

it just it's just that if you like

31:52

entertainment get that ball. Yes for the brilliance

31:54

the she was totally lovely. Just as your

31:56

expect what we were meant to is one

31:59

of those things. So it was down the

32:01

line, so I wasn't face to

32:03

face. I would have probably weed if

32:05

they were face to face. And

32:08

they said strictly, it was the only interview that

32:10

she was doing in this country, but

32:12

they had a load of them backed up, that

32:14

they said, you've got 10 minutes. Yeah. And

32:17

I went, what can I do with 10 minutes? I know, and you

32:19

want to say something original, but you don't want to say what everyone

32:21

else is doing. And I thought, I thought, sod it. 50

32:25

minutes we did. And

32:27

her people are going mental,

32:29

my people. And I'm

32:31

talking to Barbara about cooking hoisin

32:33

duck. Yeah. And they're going, I'm

32:35

going, no. I'm never going to talk to Barbara

32:37

Streisand again. I'm going to do this nice

32:40

and when she was doing this. And she's going, so who's David

32:42

Dickinson? He took your sun lounge on. He

32:44

sounds like an asshole. Kill him. What

32:49

a mushugun. This

32:53

is your captain speaking. We are on

32:55

our final approach to our destination. Cabin

32:57

crew, get ready for landing. Cabin crew,

32:59

get ready for landing. Well,

33:11

we're about to start our descent. And

33:14

we've only got time for quick fire round

33:16

now. OK. Tea

33:19

bag or tequila? Tea bag. Tea

33:21

bag, OK. Alcar or Alcatraz?

33:23

Would you rather go on holiday with

33:25

me or go to prison? Wow.

33:30

Wow. I would love to go on holiday

33:32

with you. No, I seriously would. I'm good

33:35

friends with David Dickinson. Hey, David. Lad,

33:39

lad, lad. Wicked. Let's

33:41

go up the loop. Let's

33:44

get tattoos. Yeah. Oh, wow.

33:46

Have you got any? No. No,

33:48

me neither. I did want to not resuscitate on

33:50

my chest. I think that's taken as a razor.

34:03

Yeah they I know what I

34:05

want. A road I target the

34:07

house Mahal of Taj Mahal. Will

34:10

you do culture things? To.

34:15

Know if I have yet to

34:17

know if Iran cut was as

34:19

if it a cultural gonna last.

34:23

Last but not lead to pump or of

34:25

them are you quite good at keeping? I'm

34:27

wondering if. You

34:33

bring up the were you give you

34:36

your terrible deliver the was ah disease

34:38

and rid of acquaintances huge with to

34:40

move to temple using ha ha No

34:42

noticeably were kept having a to buy

34:44

now that. And

34:47

that much. As

34:50

if you'd like to go collect your

34:53

emotional baggage carousel. that would be was

34:55

like that. It's Guy yesterday having. A

35:00

time palin. I

35:08

feel that was that

35:10

I guess toy. Or

35:12

let's just say. Hey.

35:17

Guys.