Carry On Cleo

Through all this, the singing was never far away either, with her composing, recording and performing for many years in residential homes and day centres.

Oh, and she was Amanda Barry's stunt double in Carry On Cleo.

Phew! After all this, there's still much more that I could tell you.

Nikki van der Zyl crammed enough lifetime into her one that would keep her whole team busy, and luckily would end up getting it all down in a book for your ears only in 2013.

Did you say it was his older brother, wasn't it, Michael, that wrote the script to this? Yes.

I think it just proves that before that Doctor Who character, I mean, he appears in Carry On Cleo, doesn't he? And Cowboy and a couple of others round about this time.

It just proved that he could appear as this shifty comic supporting character way before.

I mean, I know him and love him from the Navy Lark on the radio.

The, Anne of the Thousand Days had been shot at Pinewood, and they were able to make use of the sets.

In the same way that, going back to the Carry On films, I'm gonna mention them again in a second, that, um, Carry On Cleo was shot on leftover sets from Cleopatra.

Cleopatra, yeah.

You know, when they abandoned Pinewood and went off to Italy or wherever [laughs] they went to shoot it, they left the sets behind, and the Carry On, Carry On Cleo team managed to use those sets, which is why that film looks a million dollars.

It does [laughs] 'cause it did-

At least-

And it's very camp as well, I think.

You know, I love movies, Airplane, Carry On Cleo, you know, just The Chief Detective, like all those... kind of campy, silly movies.

So we have, you know, definitely have that energy.

For sure.