Life's a Cavalcade

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I was wondering, the reason why I asked the question was, you are talking to your audience on radio and the only gateway is the mike. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories. Youngsters who have seen me only on television are inclined to be confused when they come to the theatre.

There's not really any that I think, no, I can't really think of an, they were all sort of humorous. That was the last of the Theatre Royal but they were very, very happy days in the Theatre Royal and recording.Sometimes, I think the average was two thousand letters a week and a lot of contact and, of course, we did the Road Show. And the taxi driver got out and he said, "I've taken some fares in my life but I've never taken a robot! And you spoke in to the camera and you sat on your own and I started to tell the story of Sam, the pig, which I'd got at home and I thought this was ideal for children because this was who the programme was going to be aimed at, I thought, and I got three quarters of the way through the story and then I forgot what I was talking about! We used to have a, an iron curtain used to come down and still, they kept the iron curtain in and I remember we had a recording, we were doing a recording and we had a break, we did a bit of the show and then we stopped the show for some reason, I think a technicality, and they dropped the iron curtain in just to separate the audience from the performers, what was going on on stage while they were sorting it out and then they couldn't get the iron curtain back up again!

Originally I did the Stanley Baxter shows with him and David Bell and Bruce McClure, these were all characters who worked for STV. He came up to Scotland from Torquay for one week's variety in 1953 — and stayed in Scotland ever since.That's the thing today that drives me up the wall is when you hear this clapping going on and laughter for no reason and you wonder what they're laughing at where in those days you had an audience and if you didn't make them laugh, well, that was it! And I walked out and the engineer was, there was only one engineer that was there in the ante room checking on it and he looked at me and gave me a funny look and I said, "That wasn't very good, was it? Glen's career continued with a move to Scotland, where he continued to appear on stage as well as in numerous TV plays and light entertainment shows for the BBC and the fledgling STV. She's now 92 and housebound - but, like her husband, as sharp as a tack - but Michael wouldn't have had it any other way. Oh," he said, "we're quite happy for you to get, I thought perhaps you'd like to come behind the scenes and produce and so forth.