Professor Stuart Hall

This week the castaway on Desert Island Discs is Professor Stuart Hall. Nearly 10 years after he came to England from Jamaica in 1951, he helped found the first Centre of Cultural Studies in Birmingham, with the academic Richard Hoggart. It was, he says, a reaction to how fast Britain was changing after the war, including the break up of the class structure and the growing impact of TV and the mass media. Now retired, he's still concerned by the question of British identity. In conversation with Sue Lawley, he talks about his life and work and chooses eight records to take to the mythical island.

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

Choices

1.

Miles Davis

Sid's Ahead

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2.

Bob Marley

Redemption Song

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3.

Johann Sebastian Bach

Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F major

Orchestra: The English Chamber Orchestra Conductor: Benjamin Britten

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4.

Billie Holiday

I Cover The Waterfront

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5.

Marvin Gaye

I Heard It Through The Grapevine

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Wynton Marsalis Quartet

Caravan

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7.

Castaway's favourite

Walter "Gil" Fuller

I Waited For You

Artist: Miles Davis/Gil Coggins/Percy Heath/Art Blakey

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8.

Giacomo Puccini

Un bel di vedremo (One fine day) (from Madama Butterfly)

Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic Conductor: Herbert von Karajan

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Book

Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

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Luxury item

Piano

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