Dame Edna Everage interview / documentary (Arena, 1979)

Arena: La Dame Aux Gladiolas, 19/03/1979 (repeated 2004) - a tribute to the Dame, mixing interview, live performance and archive clips...
Not my copyright, just sharing found ephemera.

[@zoot69uk2001]

Thank you for your wonderful life Barry. Enjoy your well earned rest 👍

[@nathelondon3719]

Brilliant, sharp, fast, absolutely brilliant.

[@dollyrawlins5470]

Thank you so much for this

[@newnewnwo4-life497]

This is like a guide on how to do innuendos and double entendres with absolute perfection!!

[@v.b6028]

I always forget Dame Edna is a character of Barry Humphries & get totally absorbed in her life as a woman who’s like an eccentric friend of my Mum..😂

[@newnewnwo4-life497]

Edna was so sharp here she was really honing her skills as a brutal woman who could wipe the floor with any of her peers

[@Triforce829]

RIP Dame Edna😢😢😢

[@Fatima502]

9:46 "Trussed-me-up-like-a-blessed-chicken". Unforgettable

[@stephenvanwoert2447]

Extraordinary abilities. "Spooky!"

[@JoanneDawes-pg9uf]

Thanks for the laughs ... forever loved ❤ x

[@zazuzazz5419]

Beguiling!! Unforgettable! 🤩

[@timbodedidleo]

:) Edna - "I have a nuclear disarming honesty" !!! rotfl

[@philiprandall473]

I’d love a box of Nivea creme assortment

[@Wanamaker1946]

There is a Whirlpool commercial (only showed in Australia) of Dame Edna sponsoring Whirlpool. Check it out, it’s hilarious. She checks out Kenny’s room.
I remember very well women like this as a boy. Barry has them down pat.

[@janethayes5941]

Arena does the most interesting interviews.

[@kentuckianaboy]

13:04 priceless! Poor Valmei

[@newnewnwo4-life497]

Redge... Caress my knobs will you dahling!?! Tweak my little knobs!!

[@robertcarrington1738]

Is there anyway to see the whole of Edna`s visit to Stratford on Avon?

[@ppotter]

The BBC probably threw the excess footage in the bin 40 years ago.

[@robertcarrington1738]

@@ppotter Many thanks for your swift reply. The programme was my favourite Edna Everidge show with Ann Hathaway`s cottage etc. I`ll never forget the half-timbered car. I`m so sorry that the BBC probably binned this as it stayed in my memory for so long. I did see Dame Edna live at the Prince of Wales theatre for her Edvard Munch tour. On another level, I share Barry Humphries` love of the music of Kurt Weill. Sky Arts did a wondeful documentary on this.

[@ppotter]

@@robertcarrington1738 I'm only guessing, of course, re the BBC stuff... I remember that documentary on Weill. He also recorded several shows (a series possibly) for Radio 2 on Weill and that era, which you may wish to track down. I could listen to him for hours, in whatever guise.

[@3506Dodge]

Was this actually broadcast in 1979?

[@newnewnwo4-life497]

No I dont think this is above a superstar... oh heres a little tinted person hahahahah