Nick Park

Desert Island Discs

BBC

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🗓️ 19 December 2010

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Kirsty Young's castaway is the Oscar-winning animator Nick Park. His most famous creations are Wallace and Gromit: Gromit the silent but wise dog; Wallace, his well meaning owner with notably less brain-power. They now hold the same place in the nation's heart at Christmas that Morcambe and Wise once occupied. They are old-fashioned and quintessentially British - as familiar as bread and butter, or hoping the rain holds off - but their appeal is international. The world they inhabit is one of Jacobs cream crackers and tea-strainers - so it's little surprise that in real life too Nick Park's own creature comforts are modest: "The thing is, I have everything I want really. I've got my little house, I've got a campervan, I love the British countryside, I'm not after yachts or things like that." Record: I Forgot that Love Existed - Van Morrison Book: A Collins Bird book Luxury: My own 'Amazing pair of binoculars' Producer: Leanne Buckle.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Kirstie Young.
0:02.0	Thank you for downloading this podcast of Desert Island Discs from BBC Radio 4.
0:06.5	For rights reasons, the music choices are shorter than in the Radio broadcast.
0:11.0	For more information about the program, please visit bbc.co.uk-radio4.
0:30.0	My cast away this week is the animator Nick Park.
0:39.0	Wallace and Grommett are his most celebrated characters.
0:42.0	Grommett, the silent but wise dog,
0:44.0	Wallace is well-meaning owner with notably less brain power.
0:48.0	Surely the only movie star these days,
0:50.0	confident enough to wear a hand at a tank top and driver bread van.
0:53.0	His creations are, yes, old-fashioned, archetyply British and the antithesis of cool,
0:59.0	but his success is international.
1:01.0	His first Oscar win was in 1990 with creature comforts,
1:05.0	in a scene that wouldn't have been out of place in one of his films.
1:08.0	He forgot to pack a bow tie for the ceremony,
1:10.0	so ended up cobbling one together from wrapping paper and sell it tape.
1:14.0	He says of Wallace and Grommett,
1:16.0	I do love their characters, they're like my children.
1:19.0	I love to see them doing well out there in the real world.
1:23.0	You've been called Nick Park,
1:25.0	Preston's answer to Walt Disney.
1:27.0	I'm wondering if you've got any plans for a Wallace and Grommett theme park?
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