Les Dennis

But I, you know, I decided that, you know, I would learn on the job.

And lots of actors said to me, this is where you learn.

This is where you learn.

This is where, you know, I went to the RSC and worked with all those brilliant, well-trained actors.

And they all said to me, look, you know what you're doing is the right thing.

To go to the Royal Shakespeare Company and to actually be there with my niece.

My niece, Jodie McNee, was playing the lead in Venice Preserved and I played her father.

So my mum, if she'd been still around, she would have been so thrilled to have...

granddaughter and son at the rsc was she interested in the arts oh she loved it yeah absolutely she had a really good voice and um had when she was i think 14 had the chance to sing solo at the liverpool cathedral and and and and then to go on a talent show that was around then called um

what was it called?

It was called Carol Levis discovers.

And, um, and he met her and said, come, come tomorrow and I'll audition you.

And she ran home and told her mom and she said, no, you start work tomorrow in the Bobbins works.

Yeah.

It's a really good episode.

And Ricky, you know, always very kindly when I see him says, oh, it's everybody's favourite.

And it's nice to have that because so many of the big, the A-listers were just doing cameos.

But this one, they wrote it around me, which was great.

I had friends who were going, are you sure you shouldn't be doing this?

You know, they're taking the mickey, don't do it.