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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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"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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Sir Christopher Bland, chairman of British Telecom
1. Symphony No 5 in D minor
Performer: National Symphony Orchestra of Washington DC
Composer: Shostakovich
Publisher: Polydor International
CD Title: Symphony No 5
Band: 4
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Rec No: 410 509-2
2. Where the Bee Sucks
Performer: Thomas Arne
Composer: Words: Shakespeare
Publisher: EMI Rec
CD Title: Heart of Oak and other songs of Britain
Band: 16
Label: Classics for Pleasure
Rec No: CD CFP 4556
3. Danny Boy
Performer: Mario Lanza
Composer: Londonderry Air
Publisher: BMG Music
CD Title: Be my Love
Band: 8
Label: RCA
Rec No: GD 60720
4. Regimental Quick March of the Band of the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards
Performer: Band of the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards
Composer: trad
Publisher: CBS
CD Title: Hear it in Colour
Band: side 2 track 4
Label: CBS
Rec No: 63317
5. Bist Du Mir
Performer: Elizabeth Schwarzkopf accompanied by Gerald Moore
Composer: Bach
Publisher: EMI records
CD Title: Les Encores
Band: 1
Label: EMI
Rec No: CDM 763654 2
6. Perfect Day
Performer: Children In Need version - various performers
Composer: Lou Reed
Publisher: BBC
CD Title: Perfect Day
Band: 1
Label: Chrysalis
Rec No: CDNEED 01
7. Write Myself a Letter
Performer: Fats Waller
Composer: Young/Albert
Publisher: AAD
CD Title: The Cream of Fats Waller
Band: Trk 11
Label: Flapper
Rec No: PASTCD 9742
8. String Quartet in A minor
Performer: LaSalle Quartet
Composer: Beethoven
Publisher: Polydor
CD Title: String Quarets op. 130-132
Band: CD3 track 3
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Rec No: 431 144-2
If Sir Christopher could take just one record it would be No 7, Write Myself a Letter.
His book, apart from The Bible and the Complete Works of Shakespeare, would be the collected works of John Donne.
His luxury would be two and half miles of the Hampshire Chalk Stream.
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