<p>Ed Tudor Pole entered punk rock from stage school and always felt he was playing a part. After being hired to act in the Great Rock’N’Roll Swindle, he formed Tenpole Tudor and had a brief and dramatic moment in the sun, all recorded in his rollicking memoir ‘The Pen Is Mightier.’ He talks here about …</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>… his “quite posh” ancestry and a great-grandfather bankrupted by the Wall Street Crash.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>… a “Damascene conversion” to the Rolling Stones and ten hours in the burning sun at their Hyde Park show, aged 14.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>… being at RADA with Timothy Spall, Imelda Staunton and Juliet Stevenson.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>… The Great Rock’N’Roll Swindle audition and the “really horrid” Nancy Spungen’s striptease.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>… how everyone’s related to Edward 111.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>… the secret of a One-Man Show – adopt the voice of Will Hay and “let the audience do the work!”</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>… why “most actors are awful people and all crippled in some way” and his time in theatre was “like being a cow in a field of sheep”.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>… how Stiff’s Dave Robinson hated punk and wanted Tenpole Tudor to be a novelty act.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>… three months with five acts in a coach on the Stiff Tour.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>… how the success of Swords Of A Thousand Men didn’t affect their ticket sales - “it was bought by 350,000 12 year-old boys who weren’t old enough to go to gigs”.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>… why the Tenpole Tudor split broke his heart.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>… as Socrates said, “the unexamined life is not worth living.”</p><br><p><strong>Find out more about how to help us to keep the conversation going: </strong><a href="https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>… surprise paydays like the use of Who Killed Bambi? in the Zero Day soundtrack to accompany Robert De Niro’s nervous breakdown.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Order ‘The Pen Is Mightier’ here …</p><p>https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pen-Mightier-Autobiography-Punk-Rocker/dp/0857306057</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>

Word In Your Ear

Mark Ellen, David Hepworth and Alex Gold

Ed Tudor Pole – singer, actor, serial showman – saw the pop and punk wars as ‘pure theatre’.

APR 2, 202539 MIN
Word In Your Ear

Ed Tudor Pole – singer, actor, serial showman – saw the pop and punk wars as ‘pure theatre’.

APR 2, 202539 MIN

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<p>Ed Tudor Pole entered punk rock from stage school and always felt he was playing a part. After being hired to act in the Great Rock’N’Roll Swindle, he formed Tenpole Tudor and had a brief and dramatic moment in the sun, all recorded in his rollicking memoir ‘The Pen Is Mightier.’ He talks here about …</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>… his “quite posh” ancestry and a great-grandfather bankrupted by the Wall Street Crash.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>… a “Damascene conversion” to the Rolling Stones and ten hours in the burning sun at their Hyde Park show, aged 14.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>… being at RADA with Timothy Spall, Imelda Staunton and Juliet Stevenson.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>… The Great Rock’N’Roll Swindle audition and the “really horrid” Nancy Spungen’s striptease.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>… how everyone’s related to Edward 111.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>… the secret of a One-Man Show – adopt the voice of Will Hay and “let the audience do the work!”</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>… why “most actors are awful people and all crippled in some way” and his time in theatre was “like being a cow in a field of sheep”.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>… how Stiff’s Dave Robinson hated punk and wanted Tenpole Tudor to be a novelty act.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>… three months with five acts in a coach on the Stiff Tour.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>… how the success of Swords Of A Thousand Men didn’t affect their ticket sales - “it was bought by 350,000 12 year-old boys who weren’t old enough to go to gigs”.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>… why the Tenpole Tudor split broke his heart.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>… as Socrates said, “the unexamined life is not worth living.”</p><br><p><strong>Find out more about how to help us to keep the conversation going: </strong><a href="https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>… surprise paydays like the use of Who Killed Bambi? in the Zero Day soundtrack to accompany Robert De Niro’s nervous breakdown.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Order ‘The Pen Is Mightier’ here …</p><p>https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pen-Mightier-Autobiography-Punk-Rocker/dp/0857306057</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>