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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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Rod Steiger
1. Help me make it through the night
Performer: Kris Kristofferson
Composer: Kristofferson
Publisher: Monument Music 1970
CD Title: The Country Collection
Band: Track 9
Label: Country Store
Rec No: CD CST 5
2. One for My Baby
Performer: Frank Sinartra
Composer: H Arlen/J Mercer)
Publisher: E H Morris &Co (ASCAP) 1943
CD Title: The Columbia Years 1943-1952
Band: Track 23
Label: Columbia
Rec No: CK 52871
3. La Vie en Rose
Performer: Edith Piaf
Composer Louigy/Piaf/David
Publisher: Capitol 1987
CD Title: The Very Best of Edith Piaf
Band Track 2
Label: Capitol
Rec No: CDP 746657 2
4. The Man that Got Away
Performer: Judy Garland
Composer: I Gershwin/H Arlen
Publisher: Sony Music 1993
CD Title: This is Art Deco
cBand Track: 16
Label: Legacy
Rec No: CK 57111
5. Send in the Clowns
Performer: Sarah Vaughn and the Count Basie Orchestra
Composer: Stephen Sondheim
Publisher: ASCAP
CD Title: Send in the Clowns
Band: Side 2 Track 1
Label: PABLO
Rec No: 2312 130
6. Vine Street
Performer: Harry Nilsson
Composer: Randy Newman
Publisher: Unichappell Music Inc
CD Title: Nilsson sings Newman
Band Track: 1
Label: RCA
Rec No: ND 90305
7. My Funny Valentine
Performer: Ella Fitzgerald accompanied by Billy May and his Orchestra
Composer: Rodgers/Hart
CD Title: The Incomparable Ella
Publisher: Polygram
Band: Track 15
Label POLYDOR
Rec No: 835 610-2
8. Greensleeves
Performer: The Elizabethan Consort of Viols, conductor Dennis Nesbitt
Composer: Trad
Publisher: EMI
LP Title: Elizabethan Top 20
Band: Side 1 Band 1
Label: HMV
Rec No: HQS 1113
If Rod could take just one record it would be No 5 Send in the Clowns.
His book, apart from The Bible and the Complete Works of Shakespeare, the complete book of poetry by e e cummings.
His luxury would be a self-contained external electric fan.
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