Dame Elaine Paige
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864 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 24 Jul
Dame Elaine Paige’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And obviously mum said, I don't think so, darling.
You know, that's too precarious.
uh with a family and you know we're going to have a family blah blah so so that was that out the way but but he he always and so all my childhood um there was music there was music in the house and he was never there on a friday night or a saturday night because he was always out gigging come what may no matter what the weather when we used to have those pea supers you remember those fog where you literally couldn't see your hand in front of your face
Dad would still go out to drive with Joe Passi.
One of them would drive and the other one would walk with a great big fog lamp in front of the car.
And they would pootle along, I mean, yeah, to get to the gig.
Drum kit and the bass in the back, yes, yes, madness.
My mother was a milliner.
Oh, does that mean a hat maker?
Yes, that's what a milliner is, Charles.
Yes, she made hats, yes.
Oh, what sort of hats?
All kinds of hats, depending on the season.
I can remember, I mean, she used to, she always used to say that she trained in the West End.
She was very proud that she had to go to the West End, to Dover Street, I think it was.
Yes, she was very proud of that.
And she would tell me that, you know, we led a sort of pretty modest life.
There wasn't a lot of money around or anything.
And she told me once that sometimes she would get the train back from, I suppose, Bond Street or wherever it was to Finchley and then would walk from Finchley.
which is some miles, all the way along Finchley, North Finchley, past Totteridge, all up there, along, down, up Barnet Hill to Barnet.
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