Anna Scher's guest appearances

Anna Scher

Desert Island Discs

Desert Island Discs: Archive 2011-2015

Daniel Kahneman

Steven Pinker

Edmund de Waal

Zadie Smith

Malcolm Gladwell

Terry Gilliam

Julian Fellowes

Clare Balding

Alexandra Shulman

Howard Jacobson

Chris Packham

Malorie Blackman

Mary Berry

James Corden

Steve McQueen

OwlTail

Kirsty Young's castaway is the drama teacher Anna Scher.  It's more than forty years since she set up her theatre school and it has launched the careers of Kathy Burke, Martin Kemp, Pauline Quirke and Patsy Palmer to name just a few.  It started out as a lunchtime drama club - and very quickly grew.  Anna Scher says: "There were enormous classes - about seventy in a class - and a lot of those pupils were non-readers and so I fell into improvisation by chance.  I found that it was a very effective way of character training." Producer: Leanne Buckle

Kirsty Young's castaway is the drama teacher Anna Scher.  <br><br>It's more than forty years since she set up her theatre school and it has launched the careers of Kathy Burke, Martin Kemp, Pauline Quirke and Patsy Palmer to name just a few.  It started out as a lunchtime drama club - and very quickly grew.  Anna Scher says: "There were enormous classes - about seventy in a class - and a lot of those pupils were non-readers and so I fell into improvisation by chance.  I found that it was a very effective way of character training." <br><br>Producer: Leanne Buckle