Desert Island Discs
BBC Radio 4
Eight tracks, a book and a luxury: what would you take to a desert island? Guests share the soundtrack of their lives.
Episodes
Mentioned books
Mar 14, 1993 • 34min
David Croft
Sue Lawley's castaway is writer David Croft.Favourite track: Not While I'm Around by Cleo Laine
Book: Collected Poems by Sir John Betjeman
Luxury: Piano
Mar 7, 1993 • 37min
Ken Livingstone MP
Sue Lawley's castaway is politician Ken Livingstone.Favourite track: Joe Hill by Paul Robeson
Book: The Myths of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Luxury: The BBC World Service
Feb 28, 1993 • 36min
Elijah Moshinsky
Sue Lawley's castaway is director Elijah Moshinsky.Favourite track: Requiem: Agnes Dei by Giuseppe Verdi
Book: Michael Frayn translation of Complete Plays by Anton Chekhov
Luxury: A duvet
Feb 21, 1993 • 37min
Sir Robin Butler
Sue Lawley's castaway is civil servant Sir Robin Butler.Favourite track: Messiah I Know That My Redeemer Liveth by George Frideric Handel
Book: Rise and Fall of the Great Powers by Paul Kennedy
Luxury: A bag of golf clubs and golf balls
Jan 31, 1993 • 38min
Anthony Storr
Sue Lawley's castaway is psychiatrist Anthony Storr.Favourite track: String Quintet No 3 in G Minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu by Marcel Proust
Luxury: Piano
Jan 24, 1993 • 37min
Evelyn Glennie
The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the musician Evelyn Glennie. Profoundly deaf since the age of 12, her extraordinary talent as a virtuoso percussionist has taken her all over the world, giving performances on hundreds of instruments, from the tambourine and the tubular bells to the marimba and the drums.She'll be talking to Sue Lawley about her determination to become a musician against much discouragement and how she has come to perceive her deafness as an irrelevance.[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Concerto No2 For Piano In C Minor by Sergei Rachmaninov
Book: Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman
Luxury: Chocolate
Jan 17, 1993 • 38min
Dervla Murphy
Sue Lawley's castaway is cyclist and writer Dervla Murphy.Favourite track: Triple Concerto in C Major by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: Diary by Samuel Pepys
Luxury: A still (to distill berries, etc. into drink)
Jan 10, 1993 • 38min
Barbara Mills QC
Sue Lawley's castaway is QC Barbara Mills.Favourite track: Un Ballo In Maschera: E Scherzo Od E Follia by Giuseppe Verdi
Book: History of the Crusades by Stephen Runciman
Luxury: Tennis court, balls, racket and wall
Jan 3, 1993 • 37min
Elizabeth Jennings
Sue Lawley's castaway is poet Elizabeth Jennings.Favourite track: Horn Concerto No 4 In E Flat Major K 495 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: The New Oxford Book of American Verse by Richard Elman
Luxury: Pad, felt pens and biros
Dec 25, 1992 • 42min
Stephen Hawking
The castaway this week in a special extended edition of the programme is Stephen Hawking, author of the best-selling A Brief History of Time and Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University. He will be talking to Sue Lawley about his life and work, and the illness which has left him severely disabled for 25 years, as well as selecting the eight records he would choose to take to the mythical island.[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Requiem by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: Middlemarch by George Eliot
Luxury: Crème brûlée
