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This Week's Guest:
David Dimbleby
24 February 2008
Repeated
29 February 2008 |
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David's Choice |
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Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the broadcaster David Dimbleby.
When he was born, in 1938, his father Richard was already a national institution. He recorded reports from bombers flying over Germany, went to Belsen at the end of the war and, of course, commentated on the funeral of King George VI and subsequent coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
In Desert Island Discs, David tells Kirsty how his father had tried to steer him away from journalism. But he believes that it is a job that is addictive and so it was perhaps inevitable that he would become part of the fifth generation of Dimblebys to pursue a career in the media.
He is best known for the big state events - he has anchored the BBC's general election coverage since 1979 and commentated during the funerals of both Princess Diana and the Queen Mother - throughout them all, he says, his method is not to think of the audience of millions, but instead to imagine himself sitting on a sofa, next to just one viewer, saying as little as he needs to in order to explain what is happening. |
1. The opening of the 2nd movement of Schubert’s String Quintet in C
Performer The Lindsays with Douglas Cummings
Composer Schubert
CD Title Schubert: String Quintet :The Lindsays
Track Cd2 trk 2
Label ASV
Rec No CD DCS 243
2. Song that You’d Like
Performer Kate Dimbleby Band
Composer Kate Dimbleby
CD Title Things as They Are
Track 3
Label KATE DIMBLEBY
Rec No MOMMCD001
3. You Can Never Tell
Performer Blind Boy Fuller
CD Title Truckin’ my Blues Away
Track 4
Label YAZOO
Rec No YAZOO 1060
4. Anabelle Lee
Performer David Lloyd with Gerard Moore on the piano
Composer Leslie
CD Title Songs from Many Lands
Track Side 1 trk 9
Label CAMBRIAN
Rec No CLP 595
5. Sonata for Solo Violin
Performer Ivry Gitlis
Composer Bartok
CD Title The Art of Ivry Gitlis
Track CD 2 lastTrk
Label VOX LEGENDS
Rec No CDX 25505
6. Dawn – The first Sea Interlude
Performer The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Convent Garden conducted by Benjamin Britten
Composer Britten
CD Title Britten: Peter Grimes
Track 5
Label DECCA
Rec No 414 578-2
7. Cleopatra’s aria Non Disperar, Chi Sa? Do not despair. Who knows? from the 1st act of Handel’s Giulio Cesare
Performer Danielle de Niese with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment conducted by William Christie
Composer Handel
CD Title David McVicar’s production of Giulio Cesare at Glyndebourne 2005
Track Act 1 Scene 5
Label GLYNDEBOURNE
Rec No DVD PC54380
8. Dido’s Lament – When I am Laid in Earth
Performer The Band of The Irish Guards
Composer Purcell
CD Title Music for Remembrance
Track 23
Label BANDLEADER
Rec No BNA 5014
Record: Song that You’d Like – Kate Dimbleby
Book: The collected works of Michel de Montaigne's Essays
Luxury: A collection of drawing books, pencils and varnish |
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