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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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Leonard Rosoman, artist
Leonard Rosoman's career saw him travel the world as an Official War Artist in the second world war. He is also a member of the Royal Academy, an illustrator and teacher.
The young Leonard dodged the family business by getting a scholarship to the Edward VII School of Art in Durham and went on to paint and teach. When war broke out Leonard was drafted into the Auxiliary Fire Service in London but he didn't stop painting, and he used his experiences to create some of his finest work.
This drew him to the attention of the Home Office, and Sir Kenneth Clarke asked him if he would be an Official War Artist. He agreed and was appointed an official war artist to the Admiralty and was posted to the British Pacific Fleet. In April 1945 was posted to Sydney and from there he joined HMS Formidable.
After the war Leonard went back to teaching, first in London then to Edinburgh College of Art in 1948, and later on to the Royal College of Art where he met his most memorable student - David Hockney: "I didn't find him at all difficult, but it was a little bit scary because if anybody ever had something written on his forehead, he had. Every single member of that staff pretty well guaranteed that when David left, he would be a success of some kind. He was a very rare bird - he had a quality of understatement - rare and important in its way."
1. Piano Sonata in E, Opus 109
Performer: Dame Myra Hess
Composer: Beethoven
Publisher: EMI
CD Title: Great Pianists of the 20th Century
Band: CD2 T 14
Label: Philips
Rec No: 456 833-2 & 834-2
2. The Stuttering Lovers
Performer: Kathleen Ferrier, accompanied by Phyllis Spurr
Composer: traditional
Publisher: Decca
CD Title: The World of British Folk Songs
Band: T 19
Label: Decca
Rec No: 467 782-2
3. Black and Tan Fantasy
Performer: Duke Ellington and the Washingtonians
Composer: Miley & Nanton
Publisher: MCA records
CD Title: Early Ellington
Band: CD 1 T 10
Label: GRP
Rec No: 36402/A&C
4. Oklahoma
Performer: The original Broadway cast
Composer: Rogers and Hammerstein
Publisher: Sony
CD Title: Oklahoma!
Band: T16
Label: Sony Broadway
Rec No: SK 53326
5. Piano Trio
Performer: The Florestan Trio
Composer: Ravel
Publisher: Hyperion Records Ltd
CD Title: Debussy, Faure, Ravel: Piano Trios
Band: T 8
Label: Hyperion
Rec No: CDA 67114
6. Sleeping Beauty
Performer: The Philadelphia Orchestra, conductor Eugene Ormandy
Composer: Tchaikovsky
Publisher: BMG Music International
CD Title: Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty
Band: T 15
Label: RCA
Rec No: GD 86537
7. La Vie en Rose
Performer: Edith Piaf
Composer: Piaf/Louguy
Publisher: Beuscher
CD Title: Legends of the 20th Century: Edith Piaf
Band: T 4
Label: EMI
Rec No: 520142-2
8. I Got a Gal in Kalamazoo
Performer: Glenn Miller and his Orchestra
Composer: Gordon, Warren
Publisher: The Empress Recording Co
CD Title: Glenn Miller and His Orchestra
Band: T 4
Label: Empress
Rec No: RAJCD 807
If Leonard could take just one record it would be No 8, I Got a Gal in Kalamazoo.
His book, apart from The Bible and the Complete Works of Shakespeare, would be Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce.
His luxury would be a sloping lawn.
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