Richard Ingrams

Kirsty Young's guest on Desert Island Discs this week is Richard Ingrams. Former editor and a founder of the satirical magazine Private Eye, he's one of the godfathers of contemporary British satire. Pseud's Corner, Dear Bill, and Colemanballs all originated with him at the helm. Now editor of The Oldie, he's still taking part in regular ideas meetings at Private Eye and says he wouldn't know what to do if he stopped working.

From a privileged and well-connected background he seemed an unlikely outsider, yet he's spent a lifetime pulling the rug from under the feet of the great and the good. It's often proved a risky route, bringing him into conflict with army recruiting sergeants, cabinet ministers and billionaire industrialists alike. One of four boys, his favourite childhood memories are of accompanying his mother on the piano while she played the violin. He met Willie Rushton at school when they worked on the school magazine and at Oxford he met Paul Foot and other Private Eye regulars contributing to more magazines - Parson's Pleasure and Mesopotamia.

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

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Sergey Vasilievich Rachmaninov

Cello Sonata in G minor - 3rd movement

Soloist: Paul Tortelier, Aldo Ciccolini

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Ludwig van Beethoven

Violin Sonata No. 1 in D major, Op. 12/1 - 2nd movement

Soloist: Yehudi Menuhin with Hephzibah Menuhin

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Fats Waller

Handful of Keys

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Sir William Walton

March (from the Battle of Britain)

Orchestra: The Academy of St Martin in the Fields Conductor: Sir Neville Mariner

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Peter Cook & Dudley Moore

Goodbyee

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

String Quintet No. 4 in G minor - 3rd movement

Orchestra: The Heutling String Quartet

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7.

Castaway's favourite

Johann Sebastian Bach

Mass in B minor - Gloria in excelsis

Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Eugen Jochum

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Robert Schumann

Am leuchtenden Sommermorgen (from Dichterliebe)

Soloist: Peter Schreier accompanied by Christoph Eschenbach

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Book

Teach yourself piano tuning by

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Luxury item

Grand piano

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Roy Plomley's castaway is editor of Private Eye Richard Ingrams.

Choices

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Ludwig van Beethoven

Cello Sonata No. 3 in A major, Op. 69

Soloist: Pablo Casals, Rudolf Serkin

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

String Quintet No. 4 in G minor

Orchestra: Amadeus String Quartet

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Johannes Brahms

Variations on the St Antoni Chorale

Orchestra: Suisse Romande Orchestra

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Richard Strauss

September (from Four Last Songs)

Soloist: Lisa Della Casa

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Harold Macmillan

She Didn't Say Yes, She Didn't Say No

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Franz Schubert

String Quintet in C major

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Sir Edward Elgar

Violin Concerto in B Minor

Soloist: Yehudi Menuhin

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8.

Castaway's favourite

Johann Sebastian Bach

Mass in B minor - Gloria in excelsis

Orchestra: Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra

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Book

Teach yourself piano tuning by

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Luxury item

Piano

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