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Desert Island Discs is one of Radio 4's most popular and enduring programmes. Created by Roy Plomley in 1942, the format is simple: each week a guest is invited by Sue Lawley to choose the eight records they would take with them to a desert island.
The discussion of their choice is a device for them to review their life. They also choose a favourite book (excluding the Bible or other religious work and Shakespeare - these already await the "castaway") and a luxury which must be inanimate and have no practical use. |
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Sue's biography
- Sue's interview
- Quiz about Sue |
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"Lawley's consensual, almost sensual probing, producing an ambiguous bond like that between hostage and hostage-taker, is ... a masterpiece of technique."
The Sunday Times 17 March 1996
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Fay Godwin, landscape photographer
1. Suite for Cello, op 72
Performer: Rostropovich
Composer: Britten
Publisher: Etcetera
CD Title: Britten: Cello Sonata Op 65, etc
Band: S1 T 5
Label: Etcetera
Rec No: KTC 2006/A
2. Rock Around The Clock
Performer: Bill Haley and His Comets
Composer: DeKnight, Freedman
Publisher: Music For Pleasure
CD Title: Rock & Roll Greatest, Vol 1
Band: T10
Label: Music for Pleasure
Rec No: CD MFP 5744
3. At the Balalaika
Performer: Ilona Massey
Composer: unknown
Publisher: Caliban
CD Title: Original Recording from the film Balalaika recorded in 1939
Band: 1
Label: Caliban
Rec No: 6004
4. Don't Fence Me In
Performer: Bing Crosby with the Andrews Sisters and Vic Schoen's Orchestra
Composer: Porter
ublisher: ASV
CD Title: Hits of 44
Band: T7
Label: ASV
Rec No: CD AJA 5169
5. Cello Suite No 6 in D major
Performer: Paul Tortelier
Composer: Bach
Publisher: EMI Pathe Marconi SA
CD Title: Bach: Les 6 Suites Pour Violoncelle
Band: CD2 T16
Label: EMI
Rec No: 769432/33 2
6. An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise
Performer: The Scottish Chamber Orchestra, conductor Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
Composer: Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
Publisher: Unicorn Records
CD Title: Peter Maxwell Davies: Seven Songs Home etc
Band: T1
Label: Unicorn
Rec No: DKPCD 9070
7. String Quartet No 13 in B flat
Performer: The Lindsay String Quartet
Composer: Beethoven
Publisher: ASV
CD Title: Beethoven: String Quartet No 13
Band: T5
Label: ASV
Rec No: CD DCA 602
8. John Brown's Body
Performer: The Wayfarers Trio
Composer: Cheatwood, Taylor and Williams
Publisher: BMI
CD Title: Songs of the Blue and Grey
Band: Side 1 T1
Label: Mercury
Rec No: MMC 14088
If Fay could take just one record it would be No 7, the Beethoven.
Her book, apart from The Bible and the Complete Works of Shakespeare, would be The Rattlebag, an anthology of poems by Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney.
Her luxury would be egg tempura paints, brushes, and boards to paint on.
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