"Being Yourself (4)"
Description:
We all think we are unique, so it can come as rather a shock to discover we share our names with scores, maybe even hundreds of people. How can they be us? Are they the same as us? Are we all an illusion?
The idea for this thought-provoking series on how we all construct, internalise and project images of ourselves came about because there's another Clare Jenkins at the BBC - a DVD and video producer - who occasionally receives emails meant for Pennine Productions' Clare Jenkins and patiently sends them on.
Fine Time Fontayne: this actor/writer/performer was born Ian Crossley in a South Yorkshire mining village. The only man in his immediate family not to go down the pit, he took to the stage instead, initially calling himself Ordinary Seaman Whipple. Still known to his Mum and Dad as Ian, in the business everyone calls his Fine Time. Does he, then, have a split personality? Do the other Ian Crossleys - an amateur actor and a fervent Christian - ever dream of changing their name, their identity?
