Description

Fenella Fielding Audiobook
Do You Mind If I Smoke?

VOICED BY FENELLA FIELDING

Written by Fenella Fielding and Simon McKay

5 DISCS. Play length approx: 6 hours.

This audiobook tells the story of Fenella’s life; the best bits and the worst bits… all in her own voice. Best known for her 1960s film appearances in classic comedies including Carry On Screaming, Doctor in Clover and Carry On Regardless, Fenella Fielding was the telephone operator and loudspeaker voice in The Prisoner and voiced the Blue Queen in Dougal and the Blue Cat. Her illustrious theatre career includes a stunning breakthrough performance in Valmouth and the lead roles in Let’s Get a Divorce and Colette. The Times called her Hedda Gabler ‘one of the theatrical experiences of a lifetime’. She is fondly remembered for several appearances on The Morecambe & Wise Show, as well as playing The Vixen in Uncle Jack and appearing in Skins in 2012. Her memoirs include childhood stories; striking out as a young adult: living alone, compromising situations… and there’s a whole chapter about London tarts and gangsters. Fenella describes the Sixties: Vidal Sasoon, Mary Quant and the photographers. The stage shows she appeared in. A chapter about working with Kenneth Williams. The Carry Ons… not just the ones you know about, but what about the ones she turned down and why. Plus, relationships, eyelashes, her voice and – smoking! The stories are witty, tender and beautifully observed scenes from her life and all told in that unmistakable and ever alluring voice.