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Desert Island Discs
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This Week's Guest:
Humphrey Lyttelton

5 November  2006
Repeated
10 November 2006
Humphrey's Choice

Kirsty Young’s castaway on Desert Island Discs this week is the veteran jazz musician and radio presenter Humphrey Lyttelton. To Radio 4 listeners he’s best known as Chairman Humph who has spent more than thirty years picking his bewildered way through the innuendo and mayhem of I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue.

But his first love is jazz – as a child, he was always fascinated by music and when he was a teenager it was Louis Armstrong who inspired him to take up the trumpet. Fittingly, Armstrong went on to hail Humph as 'Britain's top trumpetman'. Now aged 85, Humph is still recording and touring with his band and says that he finds he's kept awake at night by new ideas for music they can play together.

1.Colonel Bogey
Performer The Band of the H.M. Royal Marines
Composer Kenneth Alford 
CD Title The Music of Kenneth Alford:The Band of H.M. Royal Marines
Track 1
Label Chandos
Rec No:Chan 6584

2.Nature Walk from 1936 recording
Performer Arthur Marshall
Composer Arthur Marshall
ARCHIVE – no longer available commercially

3.Ombra Mai Fu
Performer Beniamino Gigli
Composer Handel
CD Title Beniamino Gigli: In Opera and Song
Track 1
Label Conifer
Rec No:CDHD 227

4.It is Well
Performer Marion Williams and the Stars of Faith
Composer Williams
CD Title God and Me – Marion Williams & the Stars of Faith
Track Side 2 trk 3
Label Stateside
Rec No:SL 10038

5.Big Bill Blues
Performer Humphrey Lyttelton and His Band
Composer H Lyttelton
CD Title More of the Best of Dixieland
Track 17
Label Philips
Rec No:83 83472

6.That’s My Home
Performer Louis Armstrong
Composer Sid Robin
CD Title Satchmo: A musical autobiography
Track Cd3 trks 19 & 20
Label Verve Music
Rec No:543 825-2

7.Master Spy
Performer Kenneth Horne and Betty Marsden
Composer Barry Took and Marty Feldman
CD Title Around the Horne – Vol 15
Track 2
Label BBC
Rec No:0563494816

8 It’s a Sin to Tell a Lie
Performer Fats Waller
Composer Mayhew
CD Title The Cream of Fats Waller
Track 1
Label Flapper
Rec No:PASTCD 9742

Record: That’s My Home
Book: Collected works of James Thurber
Luxury: A keyboard

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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 Kirsty Young to choose the eight records they would take with them to a desert island.
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