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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.
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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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Philip Pullman
Philip Pullman is the author of the celebrated His Dark Materials trilogy: Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass.
He was born in Norwich and spent his early years travelling all over the world with his father, who was in the RAF, and his mother and brother. Whilst in Australia he devoured comic book stories, which made a big contrast to the traditional stories his clergyman grandfather would tell him on return trips to Norwich. Philip planned to be a writer from the age of six and, when the family moved to Wales when he was 11, he developed a real passion for stories, encouraged by a school teacher to read more and write them down.
Philip went to study English at Oxford, although he says it was really after he finished his degree that he started to learn. He began his first novel the day he left and although he says "it was terrible" he didn't give up. He worked in a variety of jobs to enable him to write and eventually went into teaching. He developed his writing style further by writing school plays and dealing with the challenge of making them accessible to both the children and the parents: it was an ideal training ground.
Philip has since written many books for children: Clockwork; I was a Rat! (which was dramatised for BBC television); and The Firework-Maker's Daughter, which won the Smarties Gold Award in 1996 and the Sally Lockhart award.
The His Dark Materials trilogy has become a huge success with children and adults, and on 22 January 2002, Philip won the Whitbread Prize for the third book in the trilogy, The Amber Spyglass. This was the first time that a children's book had won either the Booker or the Whitbread.
1. En Bateau from La Petite Suite
Performer: Jean-Philippe Collard/Michel Beroff
Composer: Debussy
Publisher: EMI
CD Title: Works by Debussy
Band: CD T4
Label: EMI
Rec No: CDM 763156 2
2. Goldberg Variations
Performer: Angela Hewitt
Composer: Bach
Publisher: Hyperion
CD Title: Goldberg Variations
Band: CD T1
Label: Hyperion
Rec No: CDA 67305
3. Memories are Made of This
Performer: Dean Martin
Composer: Gilkyson/Dehr/Martin
Publisher: Montclare Music Ltd, 1955
CD Title: The Best of The Capitol Years
Band: CD T3
Label: CAPITOL
Rec No: CDP 790718 2
4. Bolingo Ya Bougie
Performer: Franco and the Orchestre OK Jazz
Composer: Kwamy
Publisher: MENTECA
CD Title: The Very Best of The Rumba Giant of Zaire
Band: CD T3
Label: MENTECA
Rec No: MANTCD 013
5. I'll Remember April
Performer: Lee Konitz with the Gerry Mulligan Quartet
Composer: Raye/Depaul/Johnston
Publisher: UEA
CD Title: Revelation
Band: SIDE 4 TK 5
Label: BLUE NOTE
Rec No: BNLA 532/B
6. 5th Symphony
Performer: The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Carlos Kleiber
Composer: Beethoven
Publisher: Deutsche Grammophon
CD Title: Beethoven Symphony No 5 and 7
Band: CD T1
Label: DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON
Rec No: 447 400-2
7. Sonata Reminiscenza in A Minor
Performer: Emil Gilels
Composer: Nickolay Medtner
Publisher: MK
CD Title: Emil Gilels - Vainberg, Stravinsky, Scriabin etc
Band: CD T12
Label: MK
Rec No: MK 417072
8. Les Francs Juges
Performer: The London Classical Players and conducted by Roger Norrington
Composer: Berlioz
Publisher: EMI Records Ltd
CD Title: Early Romantic Overtures
Band: CD T3
Label: EMI
Rec No: CDC 749889 2
If Philip could only take one of the eight records it would be No 7, Sonata Reminiscenza in A Minor
His book, in addition to the Bible and the complete works of Shakespeare, would be A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu by Marcel Proust.
His luxury would be A Jar of Apricots, by Chardin.
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