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Speaker 1: This is gem Nation with It's been lovely seeing all

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Speaker 1: the accolades for Angela Lansbury. Lots of people so moved

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Speaker 1: by her passing. She was in her nineties, so her

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Speaker 1: death's not a surprise, but what a great retrospective people

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Speaker 1: have been talking about all those incredible roles. Did you

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Speaker 1: see her in her nineties? You may have seen on

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Speaker 1: the news last night her singing Beauty and the Beast,

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Speaker 1: Oh just beautiful. She played the old pot, she played

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Speaker 1: the teapot, Oh lovely. Did you know that she was

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Speaker 1: Malcolm Turnbull's cousin. I did not know that she was.

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Speaker 1: I think she's actually the cousin to Malcolm Turnbull's mum.

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Speaker 1: I think it might be. Yeah, so the cousins? Whoa

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Speaker 1: Malcolm Malcolm? You know this other information I discovered yesterday.

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Speaker 1: I'll start with this the way I first read it.

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Speaker 1: Angela Lansbury told a story about her daughter falling under

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Speaker 1: the spell of a Hollywood dead beat. He'd pick up

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Speaker 1: the girl, Angela's daughter from school, get her to steal

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Speaker 1: money and food from her parents. Worried, Lansbury moved the

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Speaker 1: entire family to Ireland. The guy was Charles Manson. She

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Speaker 1: says that her daughter and her son were going through

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Speaker 1: some drug situations, and this is what she said. It

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Speaker 1: started with cannabis but moved to heroin. There were factions

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Speaker 1: up in the hills above Malibu and were dedicated to

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Speaker 1: deadly pursuits. It pains me to say it, but at

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Speaker 1: one stage Dedri was in a crowd led by Charles Manson,

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Speaker 1: so she said to a husband they needed to leave.

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Speaker 1: So she said, we up sticks and moved the family

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Speaker 1: to a house I found in County Cork. I was

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Speaker 1: drawn to Ireland because it was the birthplace of my

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Speaker 1: mother and was somewhere where the children wouldn't be exposed

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Speaker 1: to bad influences. So imagine telling you teenagers you're going

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Speaker 1: from Hollywood High to County Cork. She said. I refused

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Speaker 1: all work for a year and simply kept house. I

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Speaker 1: bought Elizabeth David's cookbooks I want to do that, and

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Speaker 1: learned how to cook properly. It was a wonderful time

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Speaker 1: in my life. And she saved her kids from Charles Manson.

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Speaker 1: What a woman. That's amazing. She's always or often had

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Speaker 1: to play older than her actual age. First big break

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Speaker 1: was at the age of seventeen, when she was in

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Speaker 1: the film Gaslight. That term we're all using now, but

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Speaker 1: women being gas lit where someone makes you feel you're

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Speaker 1: losing your mind. It's an amazing film. It's got Ingrid

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Speaker 1: Bergman and I remember seeing it years ago. It's this

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Speaker 1: black and white film that was Angela Lansbury's first movie,

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Speaker 1: and she was seventeen but had to tend to be

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Speaker 1: older because she had to smoke, and you won't have

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Speaker 1: to smoke until you're eighteen, and they made a smoke. Well.

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Speaker 1: She was also in Blue Hawaii with Elvis. She was

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Speaker 1: only ten years older than him, but had to play

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Speaker 1: his mum. Now, speaking of people playing older than their age,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to give you some information not about Angela

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Speaker 1: Lansbury that's going to blow your mind. Are you ready?

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Speaker 1: I read this yesterday. El McPherson is older than Ruth

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Speaker 1: Kracknell was when Mother and Son first aired on television. Well,

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Speaker 1: I can hear your brain hurting. Elle McPherson is now

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Speaker 1: older than Ruth Cracknell was when Mother and Son started. Well,

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Speaker 1: Elle's in the late fifty Ruth Cracknell was in her

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Speaker 1: late fifties but pretending to be older. Fifteen years older

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Speaker 1: but Ruth Cracknell was younger than I am when she

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Speaker 1: played Mother and Son. You're older than Ruth Crackley. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And then I went down this deep dive and someone

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Speaker 1: else said, what about this Brad Pitt is older than

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Speaker 1: the guy playing Darren's boss, Larry Tait and Bewitched Old Larry.

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Speaker 1: Brad Pitt is now older Larry Tate. How old are

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Speaker 1: we that we're talking about p I will just answer

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Speaker 1: to the name Methuselah. If you need me, I'll be

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Speaker 1: lying down