Kenneth Williams, The South Bank Show (Part 1 of 5)
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- The South Bank Show's tribute to Kenneth Williams, broadcast on 18th September 1994. Includes interviews with Barbara Windsor, Russell Davies, Fenella Fielding, Barry Took, among others.
... In 5 parts.
... R.I.P. Kenneth Williams (22nd February 1926 - 15th April 1988)
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I met KW quite by chance one day in 1986 in Bloomsbury, very near to Marchmount St. I politely asked him for an autograph and he, much less politely, declined. He was still screeching about my effrontary in approaching him as he walked quickly away. I think of this encounter whenever I think of KW. It epitomises him. He was a deeply private man who needed a public audience, but only on his own terms. Anything else was an intrusion.
His diaries are quite sad. He was often depressed and always ashamed of his sexuality.
KW was such a part of my childhood - Round the Horne, especially. But it's hard to know whether to approach our "heroes". I was in a small "gay" pub in Camden - The Black Cat, back in the early '80's. The only girl with a couple of gay male friends. Close to me, at the bar, was Hugh Paddick. I could tell that my presence unnerved him. All those years of loving his work with KW as Jules and Sand and appreciating their artistry. But I knew that he didn't want me to break his unhappy solitude. So I didn't! And I wanted to tell him how much his work had brought me joy.!
Those where the days and times of happiness. I miss the 60',70'and 80' and what we have now compared to then has gone.
Yeah, rickets, slums, poverty, non-existent healthcare, bigotry, open homophobia, and a myriad of other "good old days" things are all gone or almost gone.
It's amazing how people with rose tinted glasses can just shit on all the wonderful medical and social advances we've made over the last 40 odd years becasue they're too afraid of their own opinion to just say "I liked my youth" and leave it at that.
You're not the only one to express these feelings of longing for this period of time. I know of many others who talk about their fondness for it, and in preference to the here and now (including before the pandemic).
Clearly youth is a big factor, in addition to less dissatisfaction and feelings of greater happiness than today.
Social, economic and technological changes in the world over past 60+ years have rendered this period almost unrecognizable to some extent.
Although technology and social media has shrunk the world and brought people in closer contact with each other, there seems to be a greater disconnect between many people and an increased loss of innocence. It has also opened up the world to all of its full glory, including its shortcomings!
As a result, many desire a return to their age of innocence in their corner of the world, when life was simpler and ignorance was bliss!
@@Syklonus im gay and what we have now is FAR worse
@@Syklonus You might be getting mixed up with the 20s, 30s and 40s. The 60s to the 80s were infinitely better than what we have now. We've going through a cultural nervous breakdown and we've lost our souls. Kenneth Williams was gay and he'd be the first to see that
So misleading at 1.40 when Barbara Windsor reads out about his first home in Caledonian Road 'it was a slum alright', then shows Kenneth Williams in a block of flats, which was actually his next home in Judd St, Euston (which is still there). The home in Caledonian Rd was a terraced house. I grew up around the corner from it and remember it (knocked down now).
I used to play football in Corams fields as a kid nearby.
I absolutely adore Kenneth Williams.
I could listen to Kenneth for hours!
Barbara Windsor is such a doll. Absolutely adorable.
Harry Grout's Mrs . ?
the story that barbara tells about the honeymoon is like a carry on film...hilarious
bowler8 nightmare neighbours next door
I'm convinced I was Kenneth Williams in a past life.
Marvellous, The more KW uploads the better, Thanks ninethenazeing.
Very influential comedian of genius - Paul Whitehouse's got some of his brilliance.
Kenneth Williams was a wonderful complex individual, and he is most definetly a Cult Figure.
Wonderful. Thanks for posting. Always fascinating to take a peek behind the curtains.
The Queen of camp .R.I.P .
Great actor
I could have sworn that I caught a brief glimpse of Edmund Purdom in this video.
Oh Kenny ........though you`ll never know, thanks...
And now we have ant and dec😞😞😞😞😞
i wasnt giving myself aaaaiiiiirrrrrssss
Normally, an interviewer is a voice heard in the background. Melvyn Bragg (what an apt surname) always has to be onscreen, upstaging his interviewee and his subject too.
Well, you can say that, but he clearly generated a very good repartee with the guests here and got the best out of them.
Like Michael Parkinson 🤣🤣🤣
@@ppmppm7010 Far more so than Parky, which is a chat show with an audience
8:39 ?? I think Kenneth looked very much like his mother.
Take a look at these wonderful people and then take a look at todays so called actors and so called celebrities. Woeful.
At 2.20 an early appearance by Edmund Purdom, no less.
00.00 Bluddy hell is that Brian Capron
So did he have a sister? As I always thought Kenneth was an only child!
In his diaries, which I'm currently reading , it says he has a sister called Pat
Half-sister.
His old man gave Ken grief for being homosexual, yet he himself was.......................... a hairdresser. The irony!
Sorry don't see the connection is that a bit of amateur profiling
There is a stereotype..for those looking to be offended