Douglas Adams

The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is Douglas Adams, creator of the anarchic world conjured up by The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about how, as a child, he found it difficult to communicate with the adult world, and didn't speak until he was four years old. But as his confidence grew, he set his sights on being a nuclear physicist - an ambition later replaced by a burning desire to be John Cleese in Monty Python's Flying Circus. In fact, he has become a hugely-successful author, a passionate amateur naturalist and a rock star manque.

[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

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The Shadows

Man Of Mystery

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György Ligeti

Requiem

Soloist: Liliana Poli / Barbra Ericson Choir: Choir Of The Bayerischen Rundfunks Orchestra: Symphony Orchestra Of Hessischen Rundfunks Conductor: Mihael Gielen

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The Beatles

Drive My Car

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4.

Johann Sebastian Bach

Mass in B minor - Sanctus

Choir: Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra Conductor: George Solti

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5.

Johann Sebastian Bach

Chorale Prelude: Ach, bleib bei uns, Herr Jesu Christ

Soloist: Daniel Chorzempa

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Paul Simon

Hearts And Bones

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7.

Johann Sebastian Bach

Italian Concerto in F major - 3rd movement

Soloist: George Malcolm

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8.

Ella Fitzgerald

All of Me

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Book

Omnibus of Golfing Stories by P G Wodehouse

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Luxury item

Martin D28 left-handed guitar

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