Dame Sheila Hancock
Full Disclosure with James O'Brien
Global
4.6 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 February 2024
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
This interview truly stands out. Dame Sheila Hancock is one of the most respected actors and writers of our time. She became a household name in the 1960s in the BBC sitcom The Rag Trade. Since then she has starred in everything from Carry on Cleo, the award-winning Cabaret, The Sixth Commandment and Edie. Now at 91, Dame Sheila sits down with James to look back on her life. From being a wartime evacuee who joined a gang to dealing with stage fright, being nominated for a Tony in her Broadway debut, Entertaining Mr Sloane and writing her first book aged 70. Dame Sheila has led an extraordinary life.
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| 0:32.1 | This is a Global Player Original podcast. |
| 0:45.3 | Music. Global Player Original podcast. Hello and welcome to full disclosure, a podcast project conceived entirely to let me spend more time than I'd ever get on the radio with fascinating people. |
| 0:54.2 | This week's guest, Dame Sheila Hancock. |
| 0:56.6 | I have tried this line with a couple of previous guests, but I think in your case it's |
| 1:01.8 | especially pertinent. There's quite a lot to get through. |
| 1:04.7 | Well, if you're going to do my whole life, I mean, the thing is that I've forgotten most of it. |
| 1:09.4 | So I'm not the best person to interview. |
| 1:11.6 | I keep hearing things. |
| 1:12.7 | Like I listen to Radio 4 Extra sometimes, and they do old plays. |
| 1:17.0 | And I swear to God, I listen to an entire play, not being able to sleep about 3 o'clock in the morning. |
| 1:22.4 | I thought, that was quite good. |
| 1:23.6 | And at the end, it said, Judith was played by Sheila Hancock. |
| 1:27.1 | No, just don't remember a single thing about it. |
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