I thought I thought I might actually get to doing some babysitting myself would
you like to have had more no I'd like 20 yes I'd like them now in fact I asked
some of those mums if they didn't want them just at the moment have a little
hole I think that's the thing just to have a little hole before we talk about
your new dot-com with it I'll have to tell you I'm computer illiterate but we
will talk about that in a minute I want to ask you about your life as the wife
of a conductor a very famous musical conductor it is that unusual feeling for
you to go into that world it's extraordinary because it's um it's sort
of partly familiar and that they have great disciplines and timetables and the
same sort of rehearsal periods and the stresses of performance but in a way
they're so much senior to us as actors because all of them actually can do it
do you not I mean all of us are blagging our way through it kind of only victus
Panetti it doesn't I mean he's brilliant most of us are kind of thinking I hope
they didn't discover me whereas all musicians and singers and dancers
actually have a craft they can practice and they have to be good at and although
my husband's a conductor of course he's also a pianistic a French horn he can
play lots of instruments and things and understands all about boeing's and
things like this and says Darbo please and things like this and I can't even
read music but I can follow it but this is a singer so she knows what she's
talking about it just seems to me to be a thrilling kind of combination to be
nearly like them but not quite like them and also respect him hugely for the had
bet you do and also when you're abroad I guess I know you're known worldwide but
maybe the the height of it isn't just as much as here and there in America but do
you find yourself taking a kind of Iraq last Road subservient drone I'm the
conductor's wife and I always sit on my own first nights and operas just on my
own again thank you and they go she's on her own poor old stick and you get so
proud so nervous you know well mind you in the arts world
I gather very soon in fact on this very channel you're going to be showing us a
private view really of Prince Philip's paintings fascinating so how did that
come about I was invited to do it to interview
people about their collections people who are both in
and have an interesting collection of paintings and after Princeville if I
talk to Lord Rothschild who of course has the most extraordinary collections
at his house and there was something very wonderful because Prince Philip is
is is really badly done by in the press he's the kindest friendliest most
courteous person and somehow they always manage to get a horrible picture or to
say something snidey but he's so charming
he's so delightful he's so sort of like twitted and friendly but it's he's a bit
of a you know dish I always did there's Majesty and I just Hank he's the most
charming and delightful person but it's his collection really impressive it was
interesting because he's he's a passionate supporter of all kinds of
Aboriginal art and and life painting in an animal and bird paintings and things
like the sea so he's rather a good painter himself too and I you you been -
well humbly but yeah but interested so interested in it yes now this time as
Patsy changed her life worldwide I kind of am bunching myself up to dare to go
to Australia they were so generous I mean the world
has been fantastic to the show but in Australian Sydney every year at the
Mardi Gras parade they have a raft a whole truck full of Patsy's I mean it
most of whom were men and although you can great designer so it's very
nerve-wracking when I go there got Batsy love really pony get yourself looking
good darling so I have to just dress up a bit more but it's it's been
extraordinary because you know it's people say are you anxious about being
typecast the truth is to be remembered for anything as an actor is wonderful
because we will appear in a lot of things in it we fly by removing
wallpaper a lot of the time which is such a strong character I imagine when
you're doing your shopping in the local supermarket you know they're busy
watching to see what does Patsy buy they've got use Tamir on there that you
know they just go to out of there she is a horrible thing you know because I
always look a bit ratty a bit sort of scraggly I mean I'm as friendly as
anything in lucky there are people pushing their babies about so it's very
nice it's very happy and very normal but I think this country is not very
starstruck you know I'd rather good expect you're the same because you're a
friendly person Gloria so when people come up after them and talk to them you
- I said please stop and talk like I'm really busy Joan I could eat just not
for goodness sake but nevertheless I mean she is a heck of a character and
one I should imagine that in one form or another
we'll stay around in your life I think so she she struck so many resonances
with people and so many people have come up to me and said oh my best friends
just like you are I'm just like your we're just like you too and we go out on
the town and my hair stands up slightly I think crikey
but liberating is liberating lay oh fantastic because up till then really
I'd paid an awful lot of smart people's girlfriends and well dressed people in
subtle clothes and and there was something just I think there's a bit of
that kind of rebel in all of us you know you're just badly behaved