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Don McCullin

Duration:
40 minutes
First broadcast:
Saturday 10 March 1984

Don McCullin has won an enormous reputation for his photographic coverage of the many wars which have torn the world apart in the last 20 years.

In conversation with Roy Plomley, he talks about his exceedingly dangerous career and about his travels, which have even taken him to a desert island, and, in light of this experience, he chooses the eight records he would like to have for a prolonged island sojourn.

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

Favourite track: Symphony No 3 in C Minor by Camille Saint-Saëns
Book: One year of issues of the Times
Luxury: Mirror

Music Played

8 items
  • Image for Giacomo Puccini

    Giacomo Puccini Nessun dorma! (from Turandot)

    Soloist: Jussi Björling

  • Beniamino Gigli With Orchestra Prologue: Si Puo? Si Puo? (from I Pagliacci)

  • Image for Paul Robeson

    Paul Robeson Ol' Man River

  • Image for Samuel Barber

    Samuel Barber Adagio For Strings

    Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor: Leonard Bernstein

  • Image for Charles-François Gounod

    Charles-François Gounod Faust Act 1

    Orchestra: French National Theatre Opera Orchestra Conductor: Andre Cluytens

  • Image for Noël Coward

    Noël Coward Mad Dogs and Englishmen

    The Revues

  • Image for Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Christoph Willibald Gluck Che farò senza Euridice (What is Life?) (from Orpheus and Euridice)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Sir Malcolm Sargeant

  • Image for Camille Saint-Saëns

    Camille Saint-Saëns Symphony No. 3 in C minor 'Organ'

    Soloist: Gaston Litaize Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Broadcasts

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  1. Image for Desert Island Disc Fragment Archive 1942-1959

    Desert Island Disc Fragment Archive 1942-1959

    Some Desert Island Discs programmes only exist in their incomplete form. They may be missing...

  2. Image for Desert Island Disc Fragment Archive 1960-1969

    Desert Island Disc Fragment Archive 1960-1969

    Some Desert Island Discs programmes only exist in their incomplete form. They may be missing...

  3. Image for Desert Island Disc Fragment Archive 1970-1986

    Desert Island Disc Fragment Archive 1970-1986

    Some Desert Island Discs programmes only exist in their incomplete form. They may be missing...

  4. Image for Desert Island Discs Archive: 1951-1955

    Desert Island Discs Archive: 1951-1955

    Castaways choose eight records, a book and a luxury to take with them to the mythical desert island....

  5. Image for Desert Island Discs Archive: 1956-1960

    Desert Island Discs Archive: 1956-1960

    Castaways choose eight records, a book and a luxury to take with them to the mythical desert island....

  6. Image for Desert Island Discs Archive: 1961-1965

    Desert Island Discs Archive: 1961-1965

    Castaways choose eight records, a book and a luxury to take with them to the mythical desert island....

  7. Image for Desert Island Discs Archive: 1966-1970

    Desert Island Discs Archive: 1966-1970

    Castaways choose eight records, a book and a luxury to take with them to the mythical desert island....

  8. Image for Desert Island Discs Archive: 1971-1975

    Desert Island Discs Archive: 1971-1975

    Castaways choose eight records, a book and a luxury to take with them to the mythical desert island....

  9. Image for Desert Island Discs Archive: 1976-1980

    Desert Island Discs Archive: 1976-1980

    Castaways choose eight records, a book and a luxury to take with them to the mythical desert island....

  10. Image for Desert Island Discs Archive: 1981-1985

    Desert Island Discs Archive: 1981-1985

    Castaways choose eight records, a book and a luxury to take with them to the mythical desert island....

  11. Image for Desert Island Discs Archive: 1986-1991

    Desert Island Discs Archive: 1986-1991

    Castaways choose eight records, a book and a luxury to take with them to the mythical desert island....

  12. Image for Desert Island Discs Archive: 1991-1996

    Desert Island Discs Archive: 1991-1996

    Castaways choose eight records, a book and a luxury to take with them to the mythical desert island....

  13. Image for Desert Island Discs Archive: 1996-2000

    Desert Island Discs Archive: 1996-2000

    Castaways choose eight records, a book and a luxury to take with them to the mythical desert island....

  14. Image for Desert Island Discs Archive: 2000-2005

    Desert Island Discs Archive: 2000-2005

    Castaways choose eight records, a book and a luxury to take with them to the mythical desert island....

  15. Image for Desert Island Discs Archive: 2005-2011

    Desert Island Discs Archive: 2005-2011

    Castaways choose eight records, a book and a luxury to take with them to the mythical desert island....

  16. Image for Desert Island Discs with Kirsty Young

    Desert Island Discs with Kirsty Young

    Kirsty Young asks castaways to choose eight records, a book and a luxury to take with them to the...

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