Ronnie Le Drew
Season 3 Episode 8The man behind everything from Zippy and Sweep to goblins from the Labyrinth, Ronnie Le Drew, joins Robin and Josie this week. There’s much chat of puppets, naturally, via the work of Roald Dahl, Simon Callow, Anna Kemp and others plus Ronnie’s own upcoming autobiography on Unbound.
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Reading List
Ronnie recommends:
The Soldier’s Tale by Igor Stravinsky
Zippy and Me by Ronnie Le Drew
Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare
The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys
The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me by Roald Dahl
Dogs Don’t Do Ballet by Anna Kemp
Charles Laughton: A Difficult Actor by Simon Callow
The Night of the Hunter by Davis Grubb
A Fart in a Colander: The Autobiography by Roy Hudd
The Sugar Girls by Duncan Barrett and Nuala Calvi
Robin recommends:
The work of Roald Dahl
The Little Book of Bagpuss by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin
The three volume Orson Welles biographies by Simon Callow
The Freewheeling John Dowie by John Dowie
The Lorax by Dr Seuss
Josie recommends:
Dictionary of Puppetry by A.R. Philpott
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