Barry Humphries

First broadcast: Sun 24 May 2009

Comedian, Performer

Kirsty Young's castaway is the comedian and performer Barry Humphries. For decades he has enjoyed global fame with his grotesque comic creations, the Melbourne housewife Dame Edna Everage and the drunken cultural attache Sir Les Patterson. Off stage, though, his life has been spent immersed in literature, music and the arts, and he says that his time spent on the desert island would allow him to devote himself to painting.

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

Choices

Richard Strauss

Mir ist die Ehre widerfahren (from Der Rosenkavalier)

Soloist: Anne Sofie Von Otter & Barbara Hendricks

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Fred Astaire

Things are Looking up

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Josef Suk

Love Song

Soloist: Ruggiero Ricci & Noriko Shiozaki

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Randolph Sutton

On Mother Kelly's Doorstep

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Franz Schubert

Der Leiermann (The Organgrinder)( from Winterreise)

Soloist: Peter Anders with Michael Raucheisen

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Francis Poulenc

Flute Sonata - 2nd movement

Soloist: Patrick Gallois

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Mischa Spoliansky

Auf Wiedersehen

Artist: Felix Joachimson

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Castaway's favourite

Frederick Delius

They are not long, the weeping and the laughter (from Songs of Sunset)

Soloist: Nancy Evans, Redvers Llewellyn Choir: BBC Chorus Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor: Sir Thomas Beecham

Others who chose this artist

Book

The Melbourne Street Directory by

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Luxury item

My paints

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