Robin Askwith: The legendary actor with a life you couldn't make up

Full Disclosure with James O'Brien

Global

Society & Culture

4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

A chance encounter with the director Lindsay Anderson changed Robin Askwith's life forever. It led to his first acting job, playing the schoolboy Keating in Anderson's film if.... which became one of the most popular British films of all time.

If.... kickstarted Robin's incredible career that spans an extraordinary period of time. Over the past 50 years, he's appeared in everything from Pier Paolo Pasolini's The Canterbury Tales to the Confessions comedies to Inside No. 9, The Madame Blanc Mysteries and even a stint in pantomime that saw him batting bread rolls with Ian Botham. Now he's enjoying something of a renaissance moment. And boy, does he have some stories to tell...

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0:00.0	Lou and Airport Express from St Pancras featuring little prices.
0:05.0	Only got 32 minutes to go.
0:07.0	Comes every 30 minutes, you know.
0:08.0	So turn up your radio.
0:10.0	We'll turn the price way down low.
0:12.0	Fuck ahead and get a deal, yo.
0:14.0	Starts when my turner and you're good to go.
0:16.0	Nothing worse than traffic.
0:17.0	So slow.
0:18.0	Would it happen on a train?
0:19.0	Heck no.
0:20.0	32 minutes, t, t, t, t, t. Because it on a train? Heck no. 32 minutes, tut, tut, tut, no traffic,
0:22.1	because it's a train, tut, tut, tut, tut.
0:24.8	Lunar Airport Express, 32 minutes to goal.
0:32.1	This is a global player original podcast.
0:44.0	This is a global player original podcast. Global Player Original Podcast Hello and welcome to full disclosure.
0:49.7	A podcast project conceived entirely to let me spend more time than I'd ever get on the radio with interesting people.
0:50.9	And I'm always wary.
0:55.4	I don't want to turn into sort of Len Goodman on Strictly Come Dancing and say you're my favourite.
1:00.2	But I, Robert Asquith, I've been looking forward to this one a lot.
1:02.6	That's what Michael Sheen said when I work with him.
1:05.3	An awful lot. Oh, bless you. Well, there you go.
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