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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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Rowan Williams
Rowan Williams grew up in Swansea and Cardiff. He enjoyed reading, being outdoors and acting in school plays. He remembers attending church every day in holy week, getting involved cleaning out the store rooms and making a bonfire of the rubbish. In his later teenage years he was inspired by the excellent choir, youth activities and Canon Eddie Hughes, vicar of All Saints, Oystermouth.
Rowan went to Cambridge to study theology and for a time he was torn between Roman Catholicism and Anglicanism. He decided on the latter and soon after, when he was 28- years-old, he was ordained as a priest. He spent the next few years lecturing and working with students and the local community. He became professor of Divinity at Oxford University.
He left academic work to take up the post of Bishop of Monmouth in 1991 and in 1999 he was elected Archbishop of Wales.
Rowan was officially confirmed on 2nd December as the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury. He is also a philosopher, a poet, and a linguist who speaks seven languages. He has written a number of books on the history of theology and spirituality and published collections of articles and sermons as well as two books of poetry.
1. Five Variants on Dives and Lazarus
Performer: The Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conductor Neville Marriner
Composer: Vaughan Williams
Publisher: Decca Record Company
CD Title: Vaughan Williams Asmif/Marriner
Track: CDT4
Label: ARGO
Rec No: 414 595 2
2. Calon Lân (Guileless Heart)
Performer: 5000 voices at the Royal Albert Hall accompanied by the organist Cyril Anthony
Composer: Hughes, James
Publisher: Decca
CD Title: A Nation Sings - 5000 voices at the Royal Albert Hall
Track: LPS1T5
Label: DECCA
Rec No: SPA 214
3. The Hedgehog's Song
Performer: The Incredible String Band
Composer: Heron & Williamson
Publisher: Westminster Music Ltd
CD Title: The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion
Track: CDT8
Label: ELEKTRA
Rec No: 7559-60913-2
4. Ave Maris Stella (Hail Bright Star of Heaven)
Performer: The London Bach Orchestra and the Louis Halsey Singers, conductor Louis Halsey
Composer: Monteverdi
Publisher: BBC
CD Title: Montiverdi's Vespers
Track: CD2T3
Label: BBC Radio Classics
Rec No: 15656 918777 A & B
5. Solo Cello Suite Number 1 in G Major
Performer: Yuli Turovsky
Composer: Bach
Publisher: Chandos Records
CD Title: Bach: Six Suites for Solo Cello BVW 1007-1012
Track: CD1T1
Label: CHANDOS
Rec No: CHAN 9034/35
6. The Magic Flute
Performer: The Philharmonia Orchestra and Choir, conductor Otto Klempener
Composer: Mozart
Publisher: EMI Records
CD Title: Die Zauberflote
Track: CD1T9
Label: EMI
Rec No: CDC 555174 2 & CDC 555175 2
7. Herr Dein Mittleid dein Erbarem (For the Third Day of Christmas)
Performer: Michael George and Catherine Bott accompanied by the New London Consort conducted by Philip Pickett
Composer: Bach
Publisher: Decca
CD Title: Bach's Christmas Oratorio
Track: CD1T29
Label: DECCA
Rec No: 458 839-2 & 840-2
8. Compline Isiah's prophecy, Znamemy chant
Performer: Choir of Russian Cathedral in London conducted by the Rev. Archpriest Michael Fortounattio
Composer: Kastalsky
Publisher: Ikon
CD Title: Christmas Vigil - Russian Orthodox Church Music Volume 10
Track: S1T1
Label: IKON
Rec No: CIK012
If Rowan could only take one of the eight records it would be No 5, Solo Cello Suite Number 1 in G Major.
His book, in addition to the Bible and the complete works of Shakespeare, would be a collection of W H Auden poems.
His luxury would be a piano.
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