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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 Aaron Klug, former president of the Royal Society
Sir Aaron Klug grew up in Durban, South Africa on the edge of the Bush, which provided him with enough snakes and monkeys to satisfy his curiosity. A bright child, he read anything that was available and enjoyed an idyllic childhood.
He started studying medicine at university level in Johannesburg at the age of 15, but soon switched to chemistry, physics and mathematics, which provided more stimulus for his enquiring mind.
He began to research at Cape Town University and later Cambridge, where he joined the world-famous Cavendish Laboratory and later the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. His work led to him winning the Nobel prize for Chemistry in 1982 for his work on cell structure.
1. Zululand war dance: HA! Uyamqala Okandaba
Performer: Zululand war dancers
Composer: traditional
Publisher: from the British Library National Sound Archive
not commercially available
2. Violin Concerto in E Minor
Performer: Jascha Heifetz with the NBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Arturo Toscanini
Composer: Mendelssohn
Publisher: Naxos
CD Title: Mendelssohn Violin Concerto
Band: T2
Label: Naxos
Rec No: 8.110817
3. Fantasia on Greensleeves
Performer English String Orchestra, conductor William Boughton
Composer: Vaughan Williams
Publisher: Nimbus
CD Title: Vaughan Williams Orchestral Works
Band: T10
Label: Nimbus
Rec No: NIM 5019
4. Ode To Joy
Performer: Gulbenkian Choir, Lisbon, with the Orchestra of the 18th Century, conductor Frans Bruggen
Composer: Beethoven
Publisher: Philips
CD Title: Beethoven's 9th Symphony
Band: T6
Label: Philips
Rec No: 438 158-2
5. The Magic Flute
Performer: Eva Lind as Papagena and Olaf Bar as Papageno with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conductor Sir Neville Marriner
Composer: Mozart
Publisher: Philips Classics
CD Title: Mozart: Die Zauberflote
Band: CD2 T29
Label: Philips
Rec No: 426 277-2 & 278-2
6. Pomp and Circumstance Military March No 1 in D major
Performer: The English String Orchestra
Composer: Elgar
Publisher: Nimbus Records Ltd
CD Title: Elgar Pomp and Circumstance
Band: T1
Label: NIMBUS
Rec No: NI 5136
7. You're The Top
Performer: Cole Porter
Composer: Cole Porter
Publisher: BMG Music
CD Title: Showstoppers: Various
Band: T17
Label: RCA
Rec No: 9590-2-R
8. Kol Nidrei
Performer Ofra Harnoy with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Sir Charles Mackerras
Composer: Max Bruch
Publisher: BMG Music
CD Title: Bloch: Schelomo; Bruch: Kol Nidrei; Others
Band: T2
Label: RCA
Rec No: RD 60757
If Sir Aaron could take just one record it would be No 4, Beethoven's Ode to Joy.
His book, apart from The Bible and the Complete Works of Shakespeare, would be a set of books on Roman Republican and Imperial coinage.
His luxury would be a set of mixed Greek and Roman coinage.
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