JOANNA LUMLEY – Desert Island Comedy Flicks
Hosted by Clive Tulloh
Sunday 18th October, 5.30pm
Actress, activist, presenter and author, Joanna Lumley’s come a long way since her early film role in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, in which she was credited simply as ‘The English Girl’. Made a Dame for her services to drama, entertainment and charity, she’s now an English Woman admired everywhere for her eloquence, wit and poise. Post Bond-Girl, she went on to appear in Curse Of The Pink Panther, Shirley Valentine, James And The Giant Peach, and The Wolf Of Wall Street. On tv she went from Purdey in The New Avengers, and Sapphire in Sapphire And Steel, to the immortal Patsy in Absolutely Fabulous, for which she was awarded two BAFTAS. She re-united with Jennifer Saunders for Jam & Jerusalem and then with Saunders and Lucy Punch for the current big hit, Amandaland. (She and Punch first met when they played stepmother and daughter in the Cinderella satire, Ella Enchanted.) At the Aldeburgh Cinema she’ll be choosing clips from her favourite comedy films in Desert Island Comedy Flicks, a variant on the long-running Desert Island Flicks strand, which has featured Lenny Henry, Richard Curtis & Emma Freud, and Michael Palin.
CLIVE TULLOH
TV producer Clive Tulloh and Joanna Lumley are no strangers to Desert Islands. For the sake of a TV show, Clive once marooned her on just such an Island, where she had to live alone for ten days (occasionally visited by Tulloh for updates). Since then, they’ve made over thirty hours of travel documentaries together. Shortly after leaving Aldeburgh, they’ll be heading to South America for their new ITV series, Joanna Lumley’s Argentina.
Tickets: £30 (£25 Friends of Aldeburgh Cinema)
Booking opens Thursday 23rd July.
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