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Speaker 1: This is jam Nation with Jonesy and Amanda.

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Speaker 2: Well, we know her from Doctor Quinn, Medicine Woman, among

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Speaker 2: many other things. But now Jane Seymour is Harry Wilde,

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Speaker 2: a recently retired whiskey drinking university professor who discovers a

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Speaker 2: knack for solving crimes. Well, Jane Seymour, Hello, Hello.

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Speaker 3: That is quite the resumeer, it really is.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a great role. She's called Harry by her friends,

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Speaker 1: but her real name is Professor Harriet Wilde. She's professor

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Speaker 1: of English literature at Trinity and Dublin, and she's fed

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Speaker 1: up with all her students, you know, deciding to party

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Speaker 1: rather than show up, and you know, spending wasting the parents'

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Speaker 1: money and her time and brain. So she quits and

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Speaker 1: doesn't know what she's going to do, accidentally gets mugged,

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Speaker 1: ends up having to stay with her son, who's an

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Speaker 1: actual detective, realizes he has no idea how to solve

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Speaker 1: a crime that she sees on the tully and on

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Speaker 1: his kitchen counter. Realizing her knowledge of English literature, very

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Speaker 1: sort of esoteric Elizabethan literature that no one would know

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Speaker 1: is something to do with this crime, and he won't

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Speaker 1: lest some chucks her out, and so she ends up

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Speaker 1: having to find the kid that mugged her, gets him

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Speaker 1: to be a sidekick, and she solves the crime and

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Speaker 1: from then on they become a team because they're very

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Speaker 1: successful at doing it, but a major irritant to her son,

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Speaker 1: who is an actual detective, always in peril of losing

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Speaker 1: his job because Mom keeps coming in and interfering. And

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Speaker 1: it's very comedic and it's fun, and she likes a

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Speaker 1: lot of red wine. She is an independent practitioners I liked,

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Speaker 1: but you know, if she sees a guy she fancies

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Speaker 1: at the pub or at the college, she just has

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Speaker 1: him and then when she doesn't want him, she tells

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Speaker 1: him to go and that's about it. And she has

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Speaker 1: a granddaughter who she's determined to upend the rather uptight

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Speaker 1: sort of academic schooling that her daughter in law is

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Speaker 1: rather stuffily giving her. So it's very comedic.

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Speaker 2: You must have loved a role like this, and I

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Speaker 2: think we need more roles like this where women can

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Speaker 2: be over the age of fifty, they can be sexy,

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Speaker 2: they can be feisty, they're smart, they're funny, and being

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Speaker 2: someone's grandmother doesn't make you an old lady.

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Speaker 1: Oh, certainly not Harry. I mean, you know, Harry does

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Speaker 1: what she wants when she wants, and you know, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'm seventy one and Harry's at least, you know, close

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Speaker 1: to that age. And she just goes running after the

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Speaker 1: bad guys with the stun gun that only works if

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Speaker 1: she touches them with it, but mostly she uses her

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Speaker 1: brain to figure out how to get information out of

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Speaker 1: them or stall them or whatever she has to do.

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Speaker 1: And it's such a fun, fun character and very intelligently written,

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Speaker 1: so you inadvertently find yourself whilst it's going on going, Oh,

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Speaker 1: I might want to read Wuthering Heights that's in Shakespeare,

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Speaker 1: or hadn't thought of that? And she's always correct. If

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Speaker 1: you go on my Instagram Jane Seymour, yesterday we put

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Speaker 1: lessons from Harry. We we all the Every time Harry

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Speaker 1: corrects someone, sometimes in the middle of murder, she'll just say,

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Speaker 1: you know, well, not good or something like that, or

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Speaker 1: hang not hung.

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Speaker 3: And that's the key. In an era of where everyone

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Speaker 3: says one hundred percent and all that stuff, it's good

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Speaker 3: to have good English come back into the vernacular as

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Speaker 3: it were.

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Speaker 1: Yes, you know, one has to wonder who's actually speaking

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Speaker 1: English these days because of the English is English, you know,

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Speaker 1: but it takes place in Ireland, which and as Ireland.

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Speaker 1: Quite often they make films in Ireland and pretend it's

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Speaker 1: England or somewhere else. And we were originally going to

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Speaker 1: make this in Cambridge and then we just thought, no,

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Speaker 1: it's much more colorful in Ireland. And the characters, the

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Speaker 1: other actors are phenomenal. And the young man that plays

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Speaker 1: opposite me, Rohan Ned, he plays fifteen but is actually

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Speaker 1: twenty six. He happens to be completely English. She sounds

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Speaker 1: just like me. But he never never broke from the

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Speaker 1: Irish accent, and the entire crew were convinced. They not

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Speaker 1: only that he was Irish, but they knew exactly what

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Speaker 1: street he was from and what school he went to,

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Speaker 1: and you know, they couldn't believe him when he changes

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Speaker 2: The sliding doors of your life must be so interesting.

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Speaker 2: We were talking earlier about Live and Let Die. The

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Speaker 2: first time we saw you on screen. If that moment

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Speaker 2: that catapulted you to fame, would you have found your

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Speaker 2: way either way? Or do you look at that as

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Speaker 2: such a lucky moment.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's very interesting. I mean, before that, I

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Speaker 1: unidin Line. Oh before that, i'd played yeah and before that,

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Speaker 1: and that's where they found me, so it wasn't like unknown.

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Speaker 1: And before that I'd started in a series about the

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Speaker 1: Strauss family and all that I'd been spotted as as

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Speaker 1: a chorus girl with one line in the scene with

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Speaker 1: Maggie Smith and Richard Attenborough's first film. So that was

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Speaker 1: that was the big moment. But you know, Levin Let

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Speaker 1: Die definitely became a you know, major international thing, and

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Speaker 1: you know, I think that was a big moment. But

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Speaker 1: I think, you know, coming to America and doing things

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Speaker 1: like East of Eden and somewhere in time, you know

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Speaker 1: that it could have, I could have, you know, been

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Speaker 1: a one film thing. But but it wasn't. You know,

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Speaker 1: I did a lot of Shakespeare and Ibsen and Goldoni.

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Speaker 1: I had never intended basically to be a bond girl.

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Speaker 1: That was not my intention. I went to drama school

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Speaker 1: and I trained as a ballet dancer, and my intention

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Speaker 1: was at first to be a ballerino, and that didn't

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Speaker 1: happen because of injuries. I thought I was going to

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Speaker 1: be a Shakespearean actress. And so my nickname from Roger

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Speaker 1: Moore was Baby Bernhardt, like the famous actress Sarah Bernhardt

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Speaker 1: reayly before any of our time. But you know, he

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Speaker 1: used to tease me because I obviously thought this was

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Speaker 1: a serious acting job, being a bond.

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Speaker 3: And but you spoke as solitaire. You spoke so well.

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Speaker 3: You spoke so well, and you speak well now, But

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Speaker 3: you spoke so well.

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Speaker 1: I spoke very high.

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Speaker 3: You spoke very high, which you were young, very young,

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Speaker 3: and almost.

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Speaker 1: Fired me talking like that. He had a very high voice,

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Speaker 1: and I don't know what happened. I it's getting very

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Speaker 3: Noah, it sounds great. And I look at the length

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Speaker 3: and breadth of view, like from that to this to

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Speaker 3: wedding Crashes. It's just you are just you've straddled everything

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Speaker 3: in a big good sense.

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Speaker 1: Yes, in the good sense, you know what. I've had

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Speaker 1: amazing opportunities. But you know, I've never been afraid to

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Speaker 1: try something different. And I think when I did Wedding Crashes,

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Speaker 1: everyone went work. She's funny. And after that I did

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Speaker 1: a ton of comedy. I'm still doing a lot of comedy.

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Speaker 1: But then I was in Australia doing that beautiful film

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Speaker 1: Ruby's Choice, which was not really comedic at all. It

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Speaker 1: was a woman with demento. People loved that movie. And

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Speaker 1: times here in America so far, and people came back

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Speaker 1: to watch it twice. They loved it so much. So

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Speaker 1: now I'm doing a wide variety of roles and and

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Speaker 1: I'm so lucky, you know, because I'm basically a character

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Speaker 1: actress that looked like a leading lady.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well you are doing excellent. Your house looks beautiful.

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Speaker 3: You look fantastic. Harry Wilder. Screening now on Acorn TV

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Speaker 3: and Apple TV. Jane Seymour, it has been a treat.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 1: Oh thank you. I wish it was back out there.

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Speaker 1: I've got a lot of ouzzy friends coming out here

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Speaker 1: this weekend, so ch hi to everyone, love you to

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Speaker 1: thank you.

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Speaker 3: Jane