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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.
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
Hollywood superstar Martin Seen appears on the BBC Radio 4 cult show Desert Island Discs.
- published: 07 Nov 2014
- views: 1722
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
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 - 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, 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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- published: 10 Sep 2012
- views: 2415
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. -
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 -
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. -
36:06Douglas Adams Interview - Desert Island Discs BBC Radio 4
Douglas Adams Interview - Desert Island Discs BBC Radio 4Douglas Adams 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. -
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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42:04Kylie Minogue Desert Island Discs © BBC
Kylie Minogue Desert Island Discs © BBCKylie 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 -
3:29Desert Island Discs - 70 Years of Castaways
Desert Island Discs - 70 Years of CastawaysDesert 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, 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 -
10:04Dustin Hoffman- Desert Island Discs- BBC Radio- December 2012 (2 of 3)
Dustin Hoffman- Desert Island Discs- BBC Radio- December 2012 (2 of 3)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.
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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. -
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 -
Martin Sheen | Desert Island Discs
Hollywood superstar Martin Seen appears on the BBC Radio 4 cult show Desert Island Discs. -
Douglas Adams 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... -
Russell Brand Desert Island Discs BBC Radio
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Sister Wendy Beckett Interview - Desert Island Discs BBC Radio 4
From the British Broadcasting Corporation. -
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... -
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... -
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.
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
Enoch Powell BBC Desert Island Discs Broadcast 1989
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- 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
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
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
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
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
Kylie Minogue Desert Island Discs © BBC
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- 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 - 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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'For seventy years now Desert Island Discs has managed that rare feat -- to be both e...
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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Dustin Hoffman- Desert Island Discs- BBC Radio- December 2012 (2 of 3)
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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.
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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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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Enoch Powell BBC Desert Island Discs Broadcast 1989
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Desert Island Discs - 70 Years of Castaways
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Desert Island Discs
Desert Island Discs
You never ask me the right questions
And love's informers wouldn't give you a hand
We don't see eye-to-eye
Now you know the way to walk on by
Don't let the pirates steal the limelight from your heart on
Desert island discs
All the hits you missed and more on
Desert island discs
You're the miss that I shit out on
You're not number one, now it's me
Ooh, yeah
You are someone I am still proud of
But pride looks on to see me
Down on my knees
Far as the eye can see
There's night and day and me
Back inside a door is closing
Just make sure you lock away my
Desert island discs
All the hits you missed and more on
Desert island discs
You're the miss that I shit out on
You're not number one, now it's me
Ooh, yeah
You're never gonna know
You couldn't even see
You're in another crowd
And I'm left playin'
With lightning crackling from your fingers
I used to count the broken hearts
That I keep apart from
Other people's castaways
They lost on holidays
Eight days a week's not long enough
To hear my eight records on
Desert island discs
All the hits you missed and more on
Desert island discs
You're the miss that I shit out on
You're not number one, now it's me
Ooh
Ooh
Ooh
Desert island discs
Desert island discs
Desert island discs
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