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Brief overview

Sally Phillips' British Airways childhood abroad shaped her travelling — and Alan Carr swallows a fly mid-interview.

  1. A British Airways childhood, not a holidayHong Kong, Beirut and constant moves abroad meant England itself was the holiday destination.
  2. Clown school is medicine for the egoPhillips says failure is success there: being average, vulnerable and badly dressed gets a round of applause.
  3. Edinburgh has lost its rough edgesBoth say the Fringe is now too expensive and too slick for word-of-mouth discoveries.
Executive Summary AI
  • Sally Phillips tells Alan Carr she was basically born on a plane because her father worked for British Airways in the 70s, when air travel was still glamorous.1:12
  • She was born in Hong Kong, where her father was airport manager of the old in-the-city airport, and the family lived abroad until she was a teenager, so England was the holiday destination — Lorna Doon country, Dent in the Lake District, and stones nicked off graves.5:06
  • They also lived in Beirut, the Paris of the Middle East where she went to ballet school, and were evacuated when the war started in 1975; Dom Jolly went to primary school there too and they later shared the same Friday night Channel 4 slot.7:11
  • She plugs the hairdresser mysteries, Jim Cartwright's cosy crime for BBC One starting the 17th of July, shot near Warwick and Birmingham, in which she plays Lily Petal, who ran away to London at 16 wanting to sing and dance and ended up cutting the hair of 70s celebrities.17:39
  • Her worst trip was Mexico about 20 years ago as Oxfam's fair trade sweet corn ambassador, where maize farmers handcuffed by the North American Free Trade Agreement asked her to buy them tractors and she got bad salmonella — she was the test run before Coldplay were taken round Mexico to meet the G8 in Cancun.18:41
Key Quote
“So I was born in Hong Kong.”
— Sally Phillips5:06
Key Quote
“We were evacuated when the war started in 1975.”
— Sally Phillips7:11
Key Quote
“It was the Paris of the Middle East.”
— Sally Phillips8:13