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Rod Steiger

Duration:: 45 minutes

First broadcast:: Sunday 25 July 1999

Sue Lawley's guest this week is Rod Steiger. He talks about The Method, Marlon Brando and the depression which dogged him for nearly a decade. And he confesses why he couldn't go to the desert island without Frank Sinatra.

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

Favourite track: Send in the Clowns by Sarah Vaughn
Book: Complete book of poetry by e e cummings
Luxury: Self-contained external electric fan

Kris Kristofferson Help Me Make it Through the Night
The Country Collection, Country Store
Frank Sinatra One for My Baby
The Columbia Years 1943- 1952, Columbia
Édith Piaf La Vie en Rose
The Very Best of Edith Piaf, Capitol
Judy Garland The Man that Got Away
This is Art Deco, Legacy
Sarah Vaughan Send in the Clowns
Artist: The Count Basie Orchestra
Send in the Clowns, Pablo
Nilsson Vine Street
Nilsson Sings Newman, RCA
Ella Fitzgerald My Funny Valentine
Artist: Billy May and his Orchestra
The Incomparable Ella, Polydor
The Elizabethan Consort of Viols Greensleeves
Elizabethan Top 20, HMV

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