Anne Charleston

Since leaving the programme for the second time in 2001, she has appeared in Emmerdale and the relaunched Crossroads.

She appears at Eastbourne’s Congress Theatre in Calendar Girls from Monday until Saturday, July 17.

She plays Jessie (Miss January) alongside a cast that includes Gemma Craven, Letitia Dean, Charlie Dimmock, Hannah Waterman and Dean Gaffney.

Call 01323 412000 for tickets.

Do you remember the first record you bought? What was it, and where did you buy it?

The album of South Pacific [Rodgers and Hammerstein’s 1949 musical], which I bought in Melbourne.

Tell us about any guilty pleasures lurking in your CD or film collections – something you know is a bit naff but you can’t help yourself.

The Quiet Man [John Ford’s 1952 Irish-set romantic drama]. I know it’s a little kitsch but I love it.

Do you have a favourite film?

[Michael Powell and Emerich Pressburger’s 1948 film] The Red Shoes. At the age of seven it changed my life.

Is there a TV programme couldn’t you live without?

Replays of Friends.

What’s your favourite album ... and why?

Pavarotti’s Greatest Hits – I find his voice just wonderful.

Is there a song or individual piece of music you always come back to?

The Queen Of The Night’s Aria from Mozart’s Magic Flute.

What are you reading at the moment?

Walks Through Lost Paris by Leonard Pitt [in which Pitt documents the immense changes that have taken place in Paris’s architecture].

Favourite book ... and why?

It has to be Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights.

Is there a live music or theatre experience that stays in your memory?

Ken Stott and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio in A View From The Bridge [this production of Arthur Miller’s play proved a hit at Brighton Festival last year].

It must have been terrifying to face the prospect of disrobing in front of the audience. Is that something that gets easier as you go along?

It’s such a small part of the play that I hardly think about it now!