http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs
A little background:
| Late one evening in 1941, freelance broadcaster Roy Plomley was at home and already in his pyjamas, when an idea came to him. He sat down and wrote immediately to the BBC. That letter reached the in-tray of the BBC’s Head of Popular Record Programmes, Leslie Perowne. The pitch was successful and a broadcasting institution was born. |
| That first Desert Island Discs was recorded in the BBC’s bomb-damaged Maida Vale studio on 27th January 1942 and aired in the Forces Programme at 8pm two days later. It was introduced to the listening public as "a programme in which a well-known person is asked the question, if you were to be cast away alone on a desert island, which eight gramophone records would you choose to have with you, assuming of course, that you had a gramophone and an inexhaustible supply of needles". |
I present the same question to you.
| The format is simple – a guest is invited to choose eight discs, a book and a luxury to take with them as they’re castaway on a mythical desert island. They’re given the complete works of Shakespeare and the Bible. During the interview they explain their choices and discuss key moments in their lives, people and events that have influenced and inspired them and brought them to where they are today. |
What 8 pieces of music would you take, what book, and what luxury? (For your selections, pick individual tracks, not entire CDs.) If you would, provide a link to YouTube and also explain what they mean to you, what moment in your life they remind you of, and why you chose them.
Solomon
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