Running time: 29:53 mins
Guest
Gemma Arrowsmith
Named Characters and References
Zara de la Mer
Tippi Hedren
Alfred Hitchock
Jennifer Lawrence
Keywords
Michael, assistant of 47 years, not wearing shoes, socks or a top
Supercentenarian, born sometime in 1907
Hometown of Pocklington, East Riding of Yorkshire
Acting ages a person more quickly, scrabbling around for work
William Cuthbert Armstrong, industrialist and inventor of shoes with individual toes
Sinking a paper boat with marbles at school
Parts in silent movies like ‘Girl in building’
Alfred Hitchcock working with cantankerous bitches
Tippi Hedren killed a key grip
Extreme dietary requirements, e.g. blue food
BBC science-fiction show, Paul from Andromeda, created by John McArthur, writer of the worst Doctor Who serials, e.g. The Beast from Barnstaple
Resting for 50 years
Co-workers fear for their lives when Zara’s on set
BBC1’s Casualty, playing a lady who falls from a roof when fixing a TV aerial
No agent, but confusing outgoing answerphone message
Be the squeaky wheel and get a statue made of you
Statue of Zara giving two fingers to the village, leaving no bird un-flipped
Making actors quit and fill out forms for a law conversion course at the University of Bedford
