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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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Paul Gambaccini
Paul Gambaccini was born in New York City in 1949 and revelled growing up to the sounds of the sixties. He loved listening to the radio and chose to go to Dartmouth College in preference to Harvard or Yale because it had a student-run commercial college radio station. He soon became a news reporter, DJ and eventually manager.
Paul came to England to study PPE at Oxford University and, although he was despondent when the local radio station wouldn't give him a job, his luck changed following his graduation when he was offered an American Music slot on the recently launched BBC Radio 1. At 24 years of age, he was their youngest broadcaster and stayed with the network for 18 years.
He has worked on most radio and television networks, including a film review slot, which ran for 13 years, on breakfast television, and presenting the film edition of BBC Radio 4's Kaleidoscope programme.
He has also written a number of books, including co-authoring The Guinness Book of British Hit Singles, which illustrates his remarkable memory for music facts and figures. He now presents America's Greatest Hits on BBC Radio 2 and Classic Countdown on Classic FM.
1. Rhapsody in Blue
Performer: Gary Graffman and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Zubin Mehta
Composer: George Gershwin
Publisher: CBS Inc
CD Title: Manhattan soundtrack
Band LP S1
Label CBS
Rec No 73875
2. At the Hop
Performer: Danny and the Juniors
Composer: Singer Medora White
Publisher: Rhino Records
CD Title: I
Band: CD T1
Label: RHINO
Rec No: R2 70619
3. And Your Bird Can Sing
Performer: The Beatles
Composer: Lennon/McCartney
Publisher: EMI Records Ltd.
CD Title: Revolver
Band: CD T9
Label: PARLOPHONE
Rec No: CDP 746441 2
4. Piano Concerto in A Minor
Performer: Arthur Rubinstein with the Philadelphia Orchestra, conductor
Erich Weinsdorf
Composer: Greig
Publisher: BMG Music
CD Title: Grieg: Piano Concerto
Band: CD T1-3
Label: RCA
Rec No: GD 60897
5. All the Way
Performer: Frank Sinatra
Composer: Van Heusen/Cahn
Publisher: Hal Shaper Ltd
CD Title: The Great Films and Shows
Band: CD T6
Label: CAPITOL
Rec No: CDP 792228 2
6. The Hallelujah Chorus
Performer: Mormon Tabernacle Choir, accompanied by the Philadelphia Orchestra, conductor Eugene Ormandy
Composer: Handel
Publisher: Columbia
CD Title: The Hallelujah Chorus
Band CD T9
Label Columbia
Rec No MS 7292
7. Tonight
Performer: Ferrante and Teicher and their orchestra
Composer: Bernstein/Sondheim
Publisher: HMV
CD Title: West Side Story soundtrack
Band: LP S1T3
Label: HMV
Rec No: CLP 1505
8. My Girl
Performer: Temptations
Composer: White/Robinson Jr
Publisher: Sony Music Entertainment
CD Title: The Temptations
Band: CD T1
Label: EPIC
Rec No: 657676 2
If Paul could only take one of the eight records it would be No 1, Rhapsody in Blue
His book, in addition to the Bible and the complete works of Shakespeare, would be The complete Carl Barks Library
His luxury would be a piano.
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