BBC Radio 4 - Desert Island Discs, Celia Imrie

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Celia Imrie

Duration:: 45 minutes

First broadcast:: Sunday 13 February 2011

Immediately recognisable as one of Britain's most versatile actresses she's worked in television, theatre and films over the past four decades. While she's taken roles at the Royal Shakespeare Company and in big budget films, it's her instinct for TV comedy - working alongside Victoria Wood and Julie Walters - that has made her a household name.

Audiences loved the spoof soap opera Acorn Antiques and she won an Olivier Award for her role in the stage production. In the early days, though, she remembers the camera crews were unsure what was going on. "I do remember the cameramen watching what had been a very slick show up until Acorn Antiques and then just thinking, 'Why is this bit so bad? Why is the scenery swaying in the background?'"

Record: Tiptoe Through the Tulips
Book: The Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Luxury: A cut glass crystal chandelier with candles

Producer: Leanne Buckle.

Bette Midler Is that all there is?
Composer: Leiber and Stoller
Bette Midler Sings the Peggy Lee Songbook, Columbia
Jonathan & Darlene Edwards Tiptoe through the Tulips
Composer: Burke/Dubin
Jonathan and Darlene's Greatest Hits Volume II, Corinthian records
Jimmy Shand Mrs Cholmondeley’s Reel
Composer: Trad
Guid Luck Go Wi’ Ye, Grasmere Records
Wynonna I’m So Lonesome I could Cry
Composer: Hank Williams, Sr.
Wyonna Sing – Chapter 1, Curb Records
Fritz Kreisler Schön Rosmarin
Artist: Fritz Kreisler with the Victor Symphony Orchestra
Kreisler: Violin Works, Naxos
Barbara Windsor It’s Nicer in Nice
Composer: Leslie Bricusse
The Boyfriend/Goodbye Mr Chips/ original soundtracks, MGM CD
Giacomo Puccini Tosca Act 2 (finale)
Artist: Maria Callas & Tito Gobbi with the Paris Conservatoire Orchestra conducted by Georges Pretre.
Puccini: Tosca, EMI CMS
The Royal Artillery Orchestra conducted by Major Frank Renton, RA. March of the Toys
Composer: Victor Herbert Arr. F .A Renton
Digital Marching Strings: Royal Artillery Orchestra, Bandleader

BBC Radio 4Sun 13 Feb 2011 11:15 BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4Fri 18 Feb 2011 09:00 BBC Radio 4

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