BBC Radio 4 - Desert Island Discs, Peter Sallis

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Peter Sallis

Duration:: 45 minutes

First broadcast:: Sunday 17 May 2009

Kirsty Young invites actor Peter Sallis to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. As the unassuming Clegg in Last of the Summer Wine and the equally mild-mannered Wallace in Wallace and Gromit, Sallis brings to life a sepia-tinted Britain that barely seems to exist any more. Now aged 88 and with failing eyesight, no-one, he says, is more surprised at his success than himself: "I've been lucky enough to keep going and I realise now, though it's taken me nearly 100 years, that my voice is distinctive. I'm very lucky indeed."

[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

Favourite track: The finale of Symphony No.5 in E flat Major by Jean Sibelius
Book: The collected works by P G Wodehouse
Luxury: No.7 Meccano outfit.

Ralph Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending
Soloist: Iona Brown Orchestra: The Academy of St Martin in the Fields Conductor: Neville Marriner
The World of Vaughan Williams, Decca
Lee Wiley Manhattan
Night in Manhattan with Lee Wiley, CBS
Fats Waller Your Feet's Too Big
Your Feet’s Too Big, RCA
Gary Miller The Way You Look Tonight
The Way You Look Tonight/Dear Friend, PYE
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco Concerto No 1 in D, Opus 99
Soloist: John Williams Orchestra: The English Chamber Orchestra Conductor: Sir Charles Groves
Guitar Concertos by Rodrigo, Sony
Ludwig van Beethoven String Quartet No. 13 in B flat major, Op. 130 - 5th movement
Orchestra: The Fitzwilliam String Quartet
Beethoven: String Quartet Op130, Decca
Tommy Dorsey All I Remember is You
Dance with Dorsey, Parade
Jean Sibelius Symphony No. 5 in E flat major - 3rd movement
Orchestra: The Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Neeme Jarvi
Sibeluis: The Symphonies, D G

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