Dilys Powell

First broadcast: Sun 24 Nov 1991

Film critic

The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the film critic Dilys Powell. She began reviewing films for The Sunday Times in 1939, and since then her forthright and pithy comments have served as a natural accompaniment to the pleasures of going to the cinema. Today, at the age of 90, she still reviews three or four films a week and she'll be talking to Sue Lawley about her receipt of what she describes as "a very liberal education" from her lifelong devotion to the big screen.

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

Choices

Shirley Jones

People Will Say We're In Love

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Chip Gabey Ozzie and Chorus

New York, New York

Igor Stravinsky

Petruchka's Room (from Petrushka)

Orchestra: The Boston Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Pierre Monteux

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Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov

Scheherazade

Orchestra: The New York Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor: Leonard Bernstein

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Johann Sebastian Bach

Jesu, joy of man's desiring (from Cantata No. 147)

Soloist: Dame Myra Hess

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Rex Harrison

I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face from My Fair Lady

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The Magic Flute Act 1

Soloist: Anneliese Rothenberger, Walter Berry Orchestra: The Orchestra Of Bavarian State Opera Munich

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Castaway's favourite

Honore and Grandmama

I Remember It Well (from Gigi)

Book

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

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Luxury item

Mouth organ with instructions

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