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The audio starts after 7 seconds. John Peel talks to Sue Lawley on BBC Radio 4 about his life at public school, his work as a DJ in the States in the early 1960s, his family, his passion for Liverpool Football Club and, of course, his lifelong passion for music. This was broadcast on 14th January 1990.
Hollywood superstar Martin Seen appears on the BBC Radio 4 cult show Desert Island Discs.
- published: 07 Nov 2014
- views: 1722
The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is the Rt Hon Enoch Powell - politician, poet and classical scholar. He'll be looking back on some of the incidents and issues which have made him one of the most controversial politicians in post-war Britain - among them, his so-called Rivers of Blood speech on immigration policy, and his exhortation to the electorate to vote Labour after his resignation over Britain's entry into the EEC.
Favourite track: The Renunciation of Siegfried (from Götterdämmerung) by Richard Wagner
Book: Old Testament In Hebrew & Greek
Luxury: Smoking device to smoke fish
- published: 09 Apr 2013
- views: 10043
This is (By The) Sleepy Lagoon composed by Eric Coates and performed by Eric Coates and the Symphony Orchestra.
The original version was recorded by Coates for introducing the BBC radio series Desert Island Discs, which has run since 1942, and the theme is still in use today.
Upon hearing the melody, Jack Lawrence wrote the song lyrics to it, and it became a hit for bandleader Harry James reaching no1 in the Billboard magazine Best Seller chart in 1942.
Other hit versions were recorded by Dinah Shore, David Rose, Fred Waring, Glenn Miller and others.
The song made the Billboard Hot 100 in 1960, in a version by the Platters, found originally on the flipside of the 1960 top ten "Harbor Lights".
The song is used at one of the rides (The Magic Clock) in De Efteling in The
Netherlands, one of Europe's largest theme parks.
- published: 29 Aug 2009
- views: 81545
Released 21 July 2013
Russell Brand, comedian & actor, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs (BBC Radio 4).
- published: 26 Dec 2014
- views: 3997
Legendary Irish Singer Songwriter Christy Moore does his desert island discs with Kirsty Young.
- published: 24 Jan 2014
- views: 20636
Dustin Hoffman talks about, amongst other things, how he started off as a young actor with Gene Hackman and Robert Duvall in early 60's New York.
- published: 18 Dec 2012
- views: 948
Desert Island Discs is a BBC Radio 4 programme first broadcast on 29 January 1942.
It is one of the longest-running radio programmes in the world (surpassed by shows such as the Grand Ole Opry, 28 November 1925 and in the UK by Sunday Half Hour, 14 July 1940). It holds the record for the longest-running factual programme in the history of radio. Originally devised and presented by Roy Plomley, each week a guest ("castaway") is asked to choose eight pieces of music, a book and a luxury item for their imaginary stay on the island, while discussing their lives and the reasons for their choices. The programme's theme is "By the Sleepy Lagoon" composed by Eric Coates in 1930. Since 2006 the show has been presented by Kirsty Young.
Guests are invited to imagine themselves cast away on a desert island, and to choose eight pieces of music, originally gramophone records, to take with them; discussion of their choices permits a review of their life. Excerpts from their choices are played or, in the case of short pieces, the whole work. At the end of the programme they choose the one piece they regard most highly. They are then asked which book they would take with them; they are automatically given the Complete Works of Shakespeare and either the Bible or another appropriate religious or philosophical work.
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37:04John Peel's Desert Island Discs
John Peel's Desert Island DiscsJohn Peel's Desert Island Discs
The audio starts after 7 seconds. John Peel talks to Sue Lawley on BBC Radio 4 about his life at public school, his work as a DJ in the States in the early 1960s, his family, his passion for Liverpool Football Club and, of course, his lifelong passion for music. This was broadcast on 14th January 1990. -
37:58Martin Sheen | Desert Island Discs
Martin Sheen | Desert Island DiscsMartin Sheen | Desert Island Discs
Hollywood superstar Martin Seen appears on the BBC Radio 4 cult show Desert Island Discs. -
41:12Enoch Powell BBC Desert Island Discs Broadcast 1989
Enoch Powell BBC Desert Island Discs Broadcast 1989Enoch Powell BBC Desert Island Discs Broadcast 1989
The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is the Rt Hon Enoch Powell - politician, poet and classical scholar. He'll be looking back on some of the incidents and issues which have made him one of the most controversial politicians in post-war Britain - among them, his so-called Rivers of Blood speech on immigration policy, and his exhortation to the electorate to vote Labour after his resignation over Britain's entry into the EEC. Favourite track: The Renunciation of Siegfried (from Götterdämmerung) by Richard Wagner Book: Old Testament In Hebrew & Greek Luxury: Smoking device to smoke fish -
38:18Ian McEwan Interview - Desert Island Discs BBC Radio 4
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3:24Classic BBC Radio Theme ~ Desert Island Discs
Classic BBC Radio Theme ~ Desert Island DiscsClassic BBC Radio Theme ~ Desert Island Discs
This is (By The) Sleepy Lagoon composed by Eric Coates and performed by Eric Coates and the Symphony Orchestra. The original version was recorded by Coates for introducing the BBC radio series Desert Island Discs, which has run since 1942, and the theme is still in use today. Upon hearing the melody, Jack Lawrence wrote the song lyrics to it, and it became a hit for bandleader Harry James reaching no1 in the Billboard magazine Best Seller chart in 1942. Other hit versions were recorded by Dinah Shore, David Rose, Fred Waring, Glenn Miller and others. The song made the Billboard Hot 100 in 1960, in a version by the Platters, found originally on the flipside of the 1960 top ten "Harbor Lights". The song is used at one of the rides (The Magic Clock) in De Efteling in The Netherlands, one of Europe's largest theme parks. -
36:06Douglas Adams Interview - Desert Island Discs BBC Radio 4
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42:36Russell Brand Desert Island Discs BBC Radio
Russell Brand Desert Island Discs BBC RadioRussell Brand Desert Island Discs BBC Radio
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38:52Sister Wendy Beckett Interview - Desert Island Discs BBC Radio 4
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37:32John Updike Interview - Desert Island Discs BBC Radio 4
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33:44Russell Brand on Desert Island Discs with Kirsty Young
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34:39Christy Moore | Desert Island Discs | 2007
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10:04Dustin Hoffman- Desert Island Discs- BBC Radio- December 2012 (2 of 3)
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27:38DAVID GILMOUR on Desert Island Discs
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31:38JANET BAKER's BBC Interview : What would your "desert island" discs be?
JANET BAKER's BBC Interview : What would your "desert island" discs be?
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John Peel's Desert Island Discs
The audio starts after 7 seconds. John Peel talks to Sue Lawley on BBC Radio 4 about his life at public school, his work as a DJ in the States in the early 1960s, his family, his passion for Liverpool Football Club and, of course, his lifelong passion for music. This was broadcast on 14th January 1990. -
Martin Sheen | Desert Island Discs
Hollywood superstar Martin Seen appears on the BBC Radio 4 cult show Desert Island Discs. -
Enoch Powell BBC Desert Island Discs Broadcast 1989
The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is the Rt Hon Enoch Powell - politician, poet and classical scholar. He'll be looking back on some of the incidents and issues which have made him one of the most controversial politicians in post-war Britain - among them, his so-called Rivers of Blood speech on immigration policy, and his exhortation to the electorate to vote Labour after his resignation over Britain's entry into the EEC. Favourite track: The Renunciation of Siegfried (from Götterdämmerung) by Richard Wagner Book: Old Testament In Hebrew & Greek Luxury: Smoking device to smoke fish -
Ian McEwan Interview - Desert Island Discs BBC Radio 4
From the British Broadcasting Corporation. -
Classic BBC Radio Theme ~ Desert Island Discs
This is (By The) Sleepy Lagoon composed by Eric Coates and performed by Eric Coates and the Symphony Orchestra. The original version was recorded by Coates for introducing the BBC radio series Desert Island Discs, which has run since 1942, and the theme is still in use today. Upon hearing the melody, Jack Lawrence wrote the song lyrics to it, and it became a hit for bandleader Harry James reaching no1 in the Billboard magazine Best Seller chart in 1942. Other hit versions were recorded by Dinah Shore, David Rose, Fred Waring, Glenn Miller and others. The song made the Billboard Hot 100 in 1960, in a version by the Platters, found originally on the flipside of the 1960 top ten "Harbor Lights". The song is used at one of the rides (The Magic Clock) in De Efteling in The Neth... -
Douglas Adams Interview - Desert Island Discs BBC Radio 4
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Russell Brand Desert Island Discs BBC Radio
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Sister Wendy Beckett Interview - Desert Island Discs BBC Radio 4
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John Updike Interview - Desert Island Discs BBC Radio 4
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Russell Brand on Desert Island Discs with Kirsty Young
Released 21 July 2013 Russell Brand, comedian & actor, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs (BBC Radio 4). -
Christy Moore | Desert Island Discs | 2007
Legendary Irish Singer Songwriter Christy Moore does his desert island discs with Kirsty Young. -
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Dustin Hoffman talks about, amongst other things, how he started off as a young actor with Gene Hackman and Robert Duvall in early 60's New York. -
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Kylie Minogue Desert Island Discs © BBC
Kirsty Young's castaway is Kylie Minogue. With seven number ones and ten million singles sold in the UK, she is the third-biggest selling female artist in Britain and has sold around 70 million records worldwide. Born in Melbourne in 1968, Kylie and her sister Dannii began their careers as child actors on Australian television. At 17, Kylie landed the role of Charlene Mitchell in the soap opera Neighbours and her on-screen wedding to Jason Donovan's character Scott Robinson was watched by twenty million people in the UK alone. Her recording career began after she was spotted singing at a charity event in 1987. Within months she had released a cover version of "Locomotion" which became the biggest-selling Australian single of the decade. Following the single's success, her first hit with... -
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Desert Island Discs - 70 Years of Castaways
Desert Island Discs - 70 Years of Castaways http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/ 'For seventy years now Desert Island Discs has managed that rare feat -- to be both enduring and relevant. By casting away the biggest names of the day in science, business, politics, showbiz, sport and the arts, it presents a cross-sectional snapshot of the times in which we live. As the decades have passed, the programme has kept pace; never frozen in time yet always, somehow, comfortingly the same.' Kirsty Young BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs celebrates its seventieth birthday in 2012. Since the programme's deviser Roy Plomley interviewed comedian Vic Oliver in January 1942, nearly 3,000 distinguished people from all walks of life have been stranded on the mythical island, accompanied by only eight records, o... -
Derek Walcott Interview - Desert Island Discs BBC Radio 4
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Eric Coates: By the Sleepy Lagoon - BBC Proms 2012
BBC Proms 2012 from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Keith Lockhart conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra in Eric Coates' By the Sleepy Lagoon - Desert Island Discs' famous signature tune. This concert was broadcast live on BBC Radio 3; it is available on-demand for seven days after broadcast. Radio 3 is streamed in HD sound online. For more from this Prom with full details, programme notes and recommended links: http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/whats-on/2012/september-03/14482 -
Johnny Vegas on Desert Island Discs: October 3rd 2010
Actor, writer and comic entertainer Johnny Vegas appears on the BBC radio programme Desert Island Discs, hosted by Kirsty Young. -
BBC “Desert Island Discs” 1970: Quentin Poole, Head Chorister of King’s College Cambridge
Broadcast 26 December 1970. The BBC radio series “Desert Island Discs” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_...) was created by presenter Roy Plumley in 1942 and has been running ever since. Its current presenter is Kirsty Young. The format is simple: each week’s guest chooses eight records they would take with them if they were to be stranded on a desert island. This edition from 1970 was remarkable in that Quentin Poole was (and still is) the only chorister ever to have appeared on the programme. He is also the youngest person ever to have been invited to take part. -
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John Peel's Desert Island Discs
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 37:04
- Updated: 16 Mar 2013
- views: 79196
The audio starts after 7 seconds. John Peel talks to Sue Lawley on BBC Radio 4 about his life at public school, his work as a DJ in the States in the early 1960...
The audio starts after 7 seconds. John Peel talks to Sue Lawley on BBC Radio 4 about his life at public school, his work as a DJ in the States in the early 1960s, his family, his passion for Liverpool Football Club and, of course, his lifelong passion for music. This was broadcast on 14th January 1990.
wn.com/John Peel's Desert Island Discs
The audio starts after 7 seconds. John Peel talks to Sue Lawley on BBC Radio 4 about his life at public school, his work as a DJ in the States in the early 1960s, his family, his passion for Liverpool Football Club and, of course, his lifelong passion for music. This was broadcast on 14th January 1990.
- published: 16 Mar 2013
- views: 79196
Martin Sheen | Desert Island Discs
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 37:58
- Updated: 07 Nov 2014
- views: 1722
Hollywood superstar Martin Seen appears on the BBC Radio 4 cult show Desert Island Discs.
- published: 07 Nov 2014
- views: 1722
Enoch Powell BBC Desert Island Discs Broadcast 1989
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 41:12
- Updated: 09 Apr 2013
- views: 10043
The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is the Rt Hon Enoch Powell - politician, poet and classical scholar. He'll be looking back on some of the incide...
The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is the Rt Hon Enoch Powell - politician, poet and classical scholar. He'll be looking back on some of the incidents and issues which have made him one of the most controversial politicians in post-war Britain - among them, his so-called Rivers of Blood speech on immigration policy, and his exhortation to the electorate to vote Labour after his resignation over Britain's entry into the EEC.
Favourite track: The Renunciation of Siegfried (from Götterdämmerung) by Richard Wagner
Book: Old Testament In Hebrew & Greek
Luxury: Smoking device to smoke fish
wn.com/Enoch Powell BBC Desert Island Discs Broadcast 1989
The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is the Rt Hon Enoch Powell - politician, poet and classical scholar. He'll be looking back on some of the incidents and issues which have made him one of the most controversial politicians in post-war Britain - among them, his so-called Rivers of Blood speech on immigration policy, and his exhortation to the electorate to vote Labour after his resignation over Britain's entry into the EEC.
Favourite track: The Renunciation of Siegfried (from Götterdämmerung) by Richard Wagner
Book: Old Testament In Hebrew & Greek
Luxury: Smoking device to smoke fish
- published: 09 Apr 2013
- views: 10043
Ian McEwan Interview - Desert Island Discs BBC Radio 4
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 38:18
- Updated: 29 Oct 2013
- views: 3623
From the British Broadcasting Corporation.
From the British Broadcasting Corporation.
wn.com/Ian Mcewan Interview Desert Island Discs BBC Radio 4
Classic BBC Radio Theme ~ Desert Island Discs
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:24
- Updated: 29 Aug 2009
- views: 81545
This is (By The) Sleepy Lagoon composed by Eric Coates and performed by Eric Coates and the Symphony Orchestra.
The original version was recorded by Coates f...
This is (By The) Sleepy Lagoon composed by Eric Coates and performed by Eric Coates and the Symphony Orchestra.
The original version was recorded by Coates for introducing the BBC radio series Desert Island Discs, which has run since 1942, and the theme is still in use today.
Upon hearing the melody, Jack Lawrence wrote the song lyrics to it, and it became a hit for bandleader Harry James reaching no1 in the Billboard magazine Best Seller chart in 1942.
Other hit versions were recorded by Dinah Shore, David Rose, Fred Waring, Glenn Miller and others.
The song made the Billboard Hot 100 in 1960, in a version by the Platters, found originally on the flipside of the 1960 top ten "Harbor Lights".
The song is used at one of the rides (The Magic Clock) in De Efteling in The
Netherlands, one of Europe's largest theme parks.
wn.com/Classic BBC Radio Theme ~ Desert Island Discs
This is (By The) Sleepy Lagoon composed by Eric Coates and performed by Eric Coates and the Symphony Orchestra.
The original version was recorded by Coates for introducing the BBC radio series Desert Island Discs, which has run since 1942, and the theme is still in use today.
Upon hearing the melody, Jack Lawrence wrote the song lyrics to it, and it became a hit for bandleader Harry James reaching no1 in the Billboard magazine Best Seller chart in 1942.
Other hit versions were recorded by Dinah Shore, David Rose, Fred Waring, Glenn Miller and others.
The song made the Billboard Hot 100 in 1960, in a version by the Platters, found originally on the flipside of the 1960 top ten "Harbor Lights".
The song is used at one of the rides (The Magic Clock) in De Efteling in The
Netherlands, one of Europe's largest theme parks.
- published: 29 Aug 2009
- views: 81545
Douglas Adams Interview - Desert Island Discs BBC Radio 4
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 36:06
- Updated: 26 Mar 2014
- views: 3887
From the British Broadcasting Corporation.
From the British Broadcasting Corporation.
wn.com/Douglas Adams Interview Desert Island Discs BBC Radio 4
Russell Brand Desert Island Discs BBC Radio
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 42:36
- Updated: 14 Aug 2013
- views: 16026
- published: 14 Aug 2013
- views: 16026
Sister Wendy Beckett Interview - Desert Island Discs BBC Radio 4
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 38:52
- Updated: 08 Nov 2013
- views: 7285
From the British Broadcasting Corporation.
From the British Broadcasting Corporation.
wn.com/Sister Wendy Beckett Interview Desert Island Discs BBC Radio 4
John Updike Interview - Desert Island Discs BBC Radio 4
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 37:32
- Updated: 29 Mar 2014
- views: 1654
From the British Broadcasting Corporation.
From the British Broadcasting Corporation.
wn.com/John Updike Interview Desert Island Discs BBC Radio 4
Russell Brand on Desert Island Discs with Kirsty Young
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 33:44
- Updated: 26 Dec 2014
- views: 3997
Released 21 July 2013
Russell Brand, comedian & actor, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs (BBC Radio 4).
Released 21 July 2013
Russell Brand, comedian & actor, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs (BBC Radio 4).
wn.com/Russell Brand On Desert Island Discs With Kirsty Young
Released 21 July 2013
Russell Brand, comedian & actor, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs (BBC Radio 4).
- published: 26 Dec 2014
- views: 3997
Christy Moore | Desert Island Discs | 2007
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 34:39
- Updated: 24 Jan 2014
- views: 20636
Legendary Irish Singer Songwriter Christy Moore does his desert island discs with Kirsty Young.
- published: 24 Jan 2014
- views: 20636
Dustin Hoffman- Desert Island Discs- BBC Radio- December 2012 (2 of 3)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 10:04
- Updated: 18 Dec 2012
- views: 948
Dustin Hoffman talks about, amongst other things, how he started off as a young actor with Gene Hackman and Robert Duvall in early 60's New York.
Dustin Hoffman talks about, amongst other things, how he started off as a young actor with Gene Hackman and Robert Duvall in early 60's New York.
wn.com/Dustin Hoffman Desert Island Discs BBC Radio December 2012 (2 Of 3)
Dustin Hoffman talks about, amongst other things, how he started off as a young actor with Gene Hackman and Robert Duvall in early 60's New York.
- published: 18 Dec 2012
- views: 948
DAVID GILMOUR on Desert Island Discs
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 27:38
- Updated: 30 Sep 2011
- views: 27314
JANET BAKER's BBC Interview : What would your "desert island" discs be?
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 31:38
- Updated: 25 Jan 2013
- views: 5866
Kylie Minogue Desert Island Discs © BBC
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 42:04
- Updated: 19 Dec 2015
- views: 681
Kirsty Young's castaway is Kylie Minogue.
With seven number ones and ten million singles sold in the UK, she is the third-biggest selling female artist in Brit...
Kirsty Young's castaway is Kylie Minogue.
With seven number ones and ten million singles sold in the UK, she is the third-biggest selling female artist in Britain and has sold around 70 million records worldwide.
Born in Melbourne in 1968, Kylie and her sister Dannii began their careers as child actors on Australian television. At 17, Kylie landed the role of Charlene Mitchell in the soap opera Neighbours and her on-screen wedding to Jason Donovan's character Scott Robinson was watched by twenty million people in the UK alone.
Her recording career began after she was spotted singing at a charity event in 1987. Within months she had released a cover version of "Locomotion" which became the biggest-selling Australian single of the decade. Following the single's success, her first hit with record producers Stock, Aitken and Waterman was "I Should Be So Lucky": her debut album sold seven million copies.
At the age of 21, a romance with INXS lead singer Michael Hutchence led to a change in her image. In 2000, inspired by 1970s disco and assisted by gold hot pants, her single "Spinning Around" became her first British number one for a decade. She also sang to an estimated global audience of 3.7 billion at the closing ceremony of the Sydney Olympics.
In May 2005 she was diagnosed with breast cancer: following treatment she resumed the tour 18 months later.
Producer: Cathy Drysdale.
© BBC
wn.com/Kylie Minogue Desert Island Discs © BBC
Kirsty Young's castaway is Kylie Minogue.
With seven number ones and ten million singles sold in the UK, she is the third-biggest selling female artist in Britain and has sold around 70 million records worldwide.
Born in Melbourne in 1968, Kylie and her sister Dannii began their careers as child actors on Australian television. At 17, Kylie landed the role of Charlene Mitchell in the soap opera Neighbours and her on-screen wedding to Jason Donovan's character Scott Robinson was watched by twenty million people in the UK alone.
Her recording career began after she was spotted singing at a charity event in 1987. Within months she had released a cover version of "Locomotion" which became the biggest-selling Australian single of the decade. Following the single's success, her first hit with record producers Stock, Aitken and Waterman was "I Should Be So Lucky": her debut album sold seven million copies.
At the age of 21, a romance with INXS lead singer Michael Hutchence led to a change in her image. In 2000, inspired by 1970s disco and assisted by gold hot pants, her single "Spinning Around" became her first British number one for a decade. She also sang to an estimated global audience of 3.7 billion at the closing ceremony of the Sydney Olympics.
In May 2005 she was diagnosed with breast cancer: following treatment she resumed the tour 18 months later.
Producer: Cathy Drysdale.
© BBC
- published: 19 Dec 2015
- views: 681
Desert Island Discs John Huston 1973
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- Duration: 10:37
- Updated: 05 Feb 2013
- views: 6901
Desert Island Discs - 70 Years of Castaways
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:29
- Updated: 10 Sep 2012
- views: 2415
Desert Island Discs - 70 Years of Castaways
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Desert Island Discs - 70 Years of Castaways
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'For seventy years now Desert Island Discs has managed that rare feat -- to be both enduring and relevant. By casting away the biggest names of the day in science, business, politics, showbiz, sport and the arts, it presents a cross-sectional snapshot of the times in which we live. As the decades have passed, the programme has kept pace; never frozen in time yet always, somehow, comfortingly the same.' Kirsty Young
BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs celebrates its seventieth birthday in 2012. Since the programme's deviser Roy Plomley interviewed comedian Vic Oliver in January 1942, nearly 3,000 distinguished people from all walks of life have been stranded on the mythical island, accompanied by only eight records, one book and a luxury.
Here the story of one of BBC Radio 4's favourite programmes is chronicled through a special selection of castaways.
Roy Plomley, inventor of the programme as well as its presenter for over forty years, quizzes the young Cliff Richard about 'these rather frenzied movements' the 1960s pop sensation makes on the stage. Robert Maxwell tells Plomley's successor Michael Parkinson that 'I will have left the world a slightly better place by having lived in it.' Diana Mosley assures Sue Lawley that Adolf Hitler was 'extraordinarily fascinating' and had mesmeric blue eyes. And Johnny Vegas tugs Kirsty Young's heart-strings with his account of a childhood so impoverished that family pets were fair game: 'My dad had always claimed that rabbits were livestock, but we'd never eaten one before.'
Desert Island Discs is much more than a radio programme. It is a unique and enduringly popular take on our lives and times -- and this extensively illustrated book tells in rich detail the colourful and absorbing story of an extraordinary institution.
Desert Island Discs - 70 Years of Castaways
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Desert Island Discs - 70 Years of Castaways
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'For seventy years now Desert Island Discs has managed that rare feat -- to be both enduring and relevant. By casting away the biggest names of the day in science, business, politics, showbiz, sport and the arts, it presents a cross-sectional snapshot of the times in which we live. As the decades have passed, the programme has kept pace; never frozen in time yet always, somehow, comfortingly the same.' Kirsty Young
BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs celebrates its seventieth birthday in 2012. Since the programme's deviser Roy Plomley interviewed comedian Vic Oliver in January 1942, nearly 3,000 distinguished people from all walks of life have been stranded on the mythical island, accompanied by only eight records, one book and a luxury.
Here the story of one of BBC Radio 4's favourite programmes is chronicled through a special selection of castaways.
Roy Plomley, inventor of the programme as well as its presenter for over forty years, quizzes the young Cliff Richard about 'these rather frenzied movements' the 1960s pop sensation makes on the stage. Robert Maxwell tells Plomley's successor Michael Parkinson that 'I will have left the world a slightly better place by having lived in it.' Diana Mosley assures Sue Lawley that Adolf Hitler was 'extraordinarily fascinating' and had mesmeric blue eyes. And Johnny Vegas tugs Kirsty Young's heart-strings with his account of a childhood so impoverished that family pets were fair game: 'My dad had always claimed that rabbits were livestock, but we'd never eaten one before.'
Desert Island Discs is much more than a radio programme. It is a unique and enduringly popular take on our lives and times -- and this extensively illustrated book tells in rich detail the colourful and absorbing story of an extraordinary institution.
Desert Island Discs - 70 Years of Castaways
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWB-IfR4NfE
- published: 10 Sep 2012
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Derek Walcott Interview - Desert Island Discs BBC Radio 4
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From the British Broadcasting Corporation.
From the British Broadcasting Corporation.
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Eric Coates: By the Sleepy Lagoon - BBC Proms 2012
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BBC Proms 2012 from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Keith Lockhart conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra in Eric Coates' By the Sleepy Lagoon - Desert Island Discs...
BBC Proms 2012 from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Keith Lockhart conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra in Eric Coates' By the Sleepy Lagoon - Desert Island Discs' famous signature tune.
This concert was broadcast live on BBC Radio 3; it is available on-demand for seven days after broadcast. Radio 3 is streamed in HD sound online.
For more from this Prom with full details, programme notes and recommended links:
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BBC Proms 2012 from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Keith Lockhart conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra in Eric Coates' By the Sleepy Lagoon - Desert Island Discs' famous signature tune.
This concert was broadcast live on BBC Radio 3; it is available on-demand for seven days after broadcast. Radio 3 is streamed in HD sound online.
For more from this Prom with full details, programme notes and recommended links:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/whats-on/2012/september-03/14482
- published: 03 Sep 2012
- views: 14983
Johnny Vegas on Desert Island Discs: October 3rd 2010
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- Duration: 34:46
- Updated: 23 Apr 2011
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Actor, writer and comic entertainer Johnny Vegas appears on the BBC radio programme Desert Island Discs, hosted by Kirsty Young.
Actor, writer and comic entertainer Johnny Vegas appears on the BBC radio programme Desert Island Discs, hosted by Kirsty Young.
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Actor, writer and comic entertainer Johnny Vegas appears on the BBC radio programme Desert Island Discs, hosted by Kirsty Young.
- published: 23 Apr 2011
- views: 11418
BBC “Desert Island Discs” 1970: Quentin Poole, Head Chorister of King’s College Cambridge
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- Duration: 25:16
- Updated: 16 Mar 2016
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Broadcast 26 December 1970. The BBC radio series “Desert Island Discs” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_...) was created by presenter Roy Plumley in 1942 a...
Broadcast 26 December 1970. The BBC radio series “Desert Island Discs” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_...) was created by presenter Roy Plumley in 1942 and has been running ever since. Its current presenter is Kirsty Young.
The format is simple: each week’s guest chooses eight records they would take with them if they were to be stranded on a desert island.
This edition from 1970 was remarkable in that Quentin Poole was (and still is) the only chorister ever to have appeared on the programme. He is also the youngest person ever to have been invited to take part.
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Broadcast 26 December 1970. The BBC radio series “Desert Island Discs” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_...) was created by presenter Roy Plumley in 1942 and has been running ever since. Its current presenter is Kirsty Young.
The format is simple: each week’s guest chooses eight records they would take with them if they were to be stranded on a desert island.
This edition from 1970 was remarkable in that Quentin Poole was (and still is) the only chorister ever to have appeared on the programme. He is also the youngest person ever to have been invited to take part.
- published: 16 Mar 2016
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ROGER WATERS on Desert Island Discs
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- Updated: 30 Sep 2011
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BBC Radio 4 Desert Island Discs, Dame Zaha Hadid2
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- Updated: 23 Feb 2016
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- published: 23 Feb 2016
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John Peel's Desert Island Discs
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Martin Sheen | Desert Island Discs
Hollywood superstar Martin Seen appears on the BBC Radio 4 cult show Desert Island Discs.
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Enoch Powell BBC Desert Island Discs Broadcast 1989
The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is the Rt Hon Enoch Powell - politician, p...
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Enoch Powell BBC Desert Island Discs Broadcast 1989
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Ian McEwan Interview - Desert Island Discs BBC Radio 4
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Classic BBC Radio Theme ~ Desert Island Discs
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Douglas Adams Interview - Desert Island Discs BBC Radio 4
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Russell Brand Desert Island Discs BBC Radio
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Sister Wendy Beckett Interview - Desert Island Discs BBC Radio 4
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John Updike Interview - Desert Island Discs BBC Radio 4
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Russell Brand on Desert Island Discs with Kirsty Young
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Christy Moore | Desert Island Discs | 2007
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Dustin Hoffman- Desert Island Discs- BBC Radio- December 2012 (2 of 3)
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DAVID GILMOUR on Desert Island Discs
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JANET BAKER's BBC Interview : What would your "desert island" discs be?
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A report in the Belfast Telegraph Monday says dinosaurs were already on the path to extinction millions of years before the meteor impact that is widely believed to have wiped them out, scientists said.Experts have always believed dinosaurs were flourishing on Earth just before the disaster struck when a huge asteroid or comet hit the planet just off the coast of Mexico, the report said....
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More than a foot of rain in some places flooded low-lying areas across the Houston region on Monday, forcing officials to suspend bus and rail service, close schools and government offices and urge residents to stay home amid what authorities said were extremely dangerous conditions, CNN reported."This is a life-threatening emergency....
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The death toll from the earthquake that hit Ecuador`s Pacific coast over the weekend now stands at 413, the security ministry said on Monday ... ....
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Steve Davis: snooker’s giant who played longest black-ball game of all
Edit The Guardian 18 Apr 2016
Simon Burnton. The six-times world champion was jeered by fans, loathed by rivals and mocked on Spitting Image but he always refused to retire on cue – until now. Contact author. @Simon_Burnton. They say 60 million people play snooker in China ... The British took less kindly to his remorseless supremacy ... When he appeared on Desert Island Discs in 1983 none of his selections – bar the snooker table he demanded as his luxury – was predictable....
This week’s best new radio: Working Class Heroes & Poverty Porn
Edit The Guardian 16 Apr 2016
Stuart Maconie investigates the entertainment world’s fascination with the working classes on Radio 4 ... It’s easy to hear why ... Desert Island Discs – Long-play (Sunday, 10.15am, Radio 4Extra) is the expanded version featuring James Corden, who is as candid on the subject of growing up in the bosom of the Salvation Army as he is on how he came to commit the unpardonable sin of becoming famous on US television ... ....
Prolific British playwright Arnold Wesker dies at age 83
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Prolific British playwright Arnold Wesker, who drew on his Jewish heritage to create works that captured the dialogue and struggles of the working class, has died, his son Lyndsay said Wednesday. He was 83 and had Parkinson's disease ... "There were quarrels and they were upsetting, but in a strange way there was so much love around, it overshadowed the distress," he told the BBC's Desert Island Discs program ... ....
British playwright Arnold Wesker dies, aged 83
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Prolific writer who produced more than 40 plays, as well as books of essays, poetry and short stories was a key British figure in 20th century drama ... He was later characterised as a leading voice of 1960s “kitchen sink” British drama. Related ... “I have always worried about people who wear cloth caps to show where they come from because whether they come from does not really matter,” he said on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs in 2006 ... ....
pianist Lang Lang has the keys to success
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He gushes about his last visit to Abu Dhabi, in 2009, recalling the "sweet" youngsters he introduced to Debussy at a masterclass, and the camels he "played" with in the desert ... I went to some little villages to see how the country developed from the very beginning, I went on the desert safari in a big jeep - I remember ... On his desert-island disc....
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Edit The National 12 Apr 2016
He gushes about his last visit to Abu Dhabi, in 2009, recalling the "sweet" youngsters he introduced to Debussy at a masterclass, and the camels he "played" with in the desert ... I went to some little villages to see how the country developed from the very beginning, I went on the desert safari in a big jeep - I remember ... On his desert-island disc....
'Everyone is important when they come to a concert,' says Lang Lang
Edit The National 12 Apr 2016
He gushes about his last visit to Abu Dhabi, in 2009, recalling the "sweet" youngsters he introduced to Debussy at a masterclass, and the camels he "played" with in the desert ... I went to some little villages to see how the country developed from the very beginning, I went on the desert safari in a big jeep - I remember ... On his desert-island disc....
How to escape a desert island – from messages in bottles to JFK's engraved coconut
Edit The Guardian 11 Apr 2016
What would you do if you were stranded on a desert island? Keep calm and wait for Man Friday? Finally decide on those Desert Island Discs? Fashion a boat out of nothing but a washed-up piece of portable toilet and some Hollywood-sized chutzpah a la Tom Hanks in Cast Away? Wish you were as handy, or at least as good looking, as the cast(aways) of ......
King Lear review – two Lears acting up a storm
Edit The Guardian 10 Apr 2016
Royal & Derngate, Northampton; Royal Exchange, Manchester. Michael Pennington’s powerful performance isn’t helped by the period trappings, but Don Warrington’s flummoxed king is a Lear to savour. @clarembrennan. Rail chaos outside Birmingham. A quarter of an hour late to the Royal & Derngate ... There stands a man ... A quote, by Sue Lawley from Desert Island Discs, in the Royal Exchange/Talawa Theatre Company programme surprises ... ....
Justin Welby absorbs paternity news with characteristic calm
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Despite ‘grim’ upbringing, archbishop of Canterbury remains unflappable in face of revelations about biological father. @harrietsherwood. Justin Welby has defined his tenure as the archbishop of Canterbury as an almost completely placid figure; calm, softly spoken and totally unflappable ... Twitter ... On BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs in 2014, Welby recalled a “grim” childhood Christmas with his father, who stayed in bed most of the day ... ....
Food in books: fish and chips from The Bear Nobody Wanted by Janet and Allan Ahlberg
Edit The Guardian 07 Apr 2016
Kate Young recalls her days working at a fish and chip shop as she makes this British cuisine staple in honour of the kids’ book by Janet and Allan Ahlberg. By Kate Young for The Little Library Café, part of the Guardian Books Network ... --- ... I’ve read books by the Ahlbergs before (The Jolly Postman will be making a feature in the book I’m writing), and recently listened to Allan Ahlberg’s interview on Desert Island Discs in tears ... Chips ... ....
John Gunter obituary
Edit The Guardian 06 Apr 2016
Set designer responsible for the look of many memorable theatre and opera productions ... Gunter specialised in such architectural feats. He was a past master at putting houses, contraptions or edifices on the stage ... His love of music was enduring; his nominated luxury on Desert Island Discs in 1983 had been “more William Walton” and he took pleasure latterly in the work of Philip Glass and John Adams ... ....
Obituary: Dame Zaha Hadid a 'starchitect' who broke boundaries
Edit Sydney Morning Herald 06 Apr 2016
Dame Zaha Hadid 1950–2016 ... In 2004, she became the first woman to win the Pritzker, architecture's equivalent of the Nobel Prize. ... As recently as February this year, when she featured as a castaway on Desert Island Discs, she claimed that she had lost work because "I'm a woman, which is a problem to many people; I'm a foreigner, another big problem; and my work is not normative" ... ... But it was a false dawn ... ....
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