being interviewed by a man who seemed bored with the show. So I allowed it.”. Book: French cookery book Luxury: Sun-tan oil Most days I think about him.”. We helpfully learn that the soon-to-be-prime-minister didn’t have much experience of camping. 58. Werbefrei streamen oder als CD und MP3 kaufen bei Amazon.de. This beautifully illustrated … 25. The interview has been deleted, though Rolf Harris’s two appearances, in 1967 and 1999, have been left in the archive. 54. “I had Plomley, and then Sue Lawley, and then the wee Scots girl,” he said later. Three years later, in January 1985, Stoppard (then in his 40s) faced this dilemma in real life. 83 (2006). 33. 24. Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (1915-2006) is the reigning German soprano of the golden era of recording, admired above all in Austro-German opera and song. One of her first encounters, on 10 April 1988, was with miners’ leader Arthur Scargill, whom she describes as “someone many people might like to see on a desert island”. She rejected the idea, so he took pencils and drawing books instead. The show made headlines again in November 2009 when Young interviewed singer Morrissey. Here are the moments that made Desert Island Discs a radio classic, Last modified on Wed 1 Jul 2020 12.59 EDT. Brown, who died in February 2016, chose as his luxury his 12 flight log books, charting his extraordinary flying career. Be the first one to, podcast_desert-island-discs-fragment_elisabeth-schwarzkopf_1000380412410, Advanced embedding details, examples, and help, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/elisabeth-schwarzkopf/id1112585140?i=1000380412410, https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/desert-island-discs-fragment-archive-1942-1959/id1112585140, http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04qqfqc.mp3, Desert Island Discs: Fragment Archive 1942-1959, Terms of Service (last updated 12/31/2014). “It just hasn’t happened yet.”. 15. Bob Geldof was the castaway in September 1992, and asked for New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art as his luxury. “Sometimes I think it would be simpler if I was [gay] because everyone thinks I am,” he says. The rumbustious Oliver Reed was cast away in November 1974. There are no reviews yet. 28. She would just hang the mattress out of the window to dry. Reply. He was dead a year later, probably at his own hand. Guests are invited to choose the eight records they would take to a desert island “I’ve got this theory that we’re in an endless loop of lives and it just never ends,” he says. 75. He refused to take a book to the island, saying he’d never read one in his life. “He had extraordinary, mesmeric eyes, and had so much to say. arkiver2 ↑ Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Alan Jefferson (1996). “Any sensible woman would be a lesbian,” says Greer. Desert Island Discs is a radio programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4.It was first broadcast on the BBC Forces Programme on 29 January 1942.. Each week a guest, called a 'castaway' during the programme, is asked to choose eight recordings (usually, but not always, music), a book and a luxury item that they would take if they were to be cast away on a desert island, whilst … Asking guests to choose a luxury only began on 16 September 1951, when the actor Sally Ann Howes modestly requested garlic – this was still the era of rationing, remember. He chooses mainly his own records – Blueberry Hill, Mack the Knife, What a Wonderful World – but you forgive him. Young had a scoop in June 2007 when Yoko Ono revealed she and John Lennon had discussed aborting their son Sean, and that she would have done so if Lennon had wished it. Who has been your most memorable castaway? “I’m not married because I’m not married,” he explained. Plomley’s widow Diana Wong, who held the copyright to the programme her late husband had devised, was never reconciled to the choice – according to Parkinson, she had wanted John Mortimer or Richard Baker – and the BBC Board of Management complained about a Yorkshire bias in the guests, unfairly in Parkinson’s view. The singer and comedian George Formby appeared in November 1951. The Lark Ascending – The People’s Desert Island Disc 48. Lawley disallowed this, so he opted for a packet of condoms instead, which he said “represents hope over any possibility of salvation”. “No, no, no, I’m frightened of nothing,” says Dietrich. It would keep my spirits up, and I might even be able to find a monkey who liked listening to it.”. on September 27, 2019. In September 2008 Kirsty Young asked Miriam Margolyes when she had first come to terms with her lesbianism. The problem with the early Desert Island Discs is that the programmes weren’t kept, and very few early episodes are available. Recordings: See: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf - Short Biography An Elisabeth Schewarzkopf Fan: David Cozy wrote (May 30, 2001): On another list to which I belong someone claimed (perhaps with tongue in cheek?) ↑ Gramophone, vol. 74. “This is illegal talk, Mr Mailer,” says Plomley sternly. He has it both ways: the Beatles, Leonard Bernstein, Keith Jarrett, Vaughan Williams, Andre Previn, Bessie Smith. The king of jazz died three years later, and this programme – only discovered and added to the archive last year – is a wonderful memorial. Schwarzkopf sou voortaan vir die res van haar loopbaan haar tyd tussen lieder uitvoerings en opera uitvoerings verdeel. Terry Wogan made three appearances, the last on 1 January 2012 (the others were in 1983 and 1988). In this wildly innovative period, the tradition of giving castaways a copy of the Bible and the complete works of Shakespeare and asking them to choose another book started a month later. Just seven and a half minutes of the interview survive. 62. Fade to By the Sleepy Lagoon. 7. 40. “You must be out of your mind. DESERT ISLAND DISCS. He was 95 at the time, and announced he had just bought a new sports car. His luxury was the lower half of the west window of St Mary’s church in Fairford, Gloucestershire. The army had been his life, he had found retirement difficult, and you sense that in his musical choices, which are filled with yearning – My Love Is Like A Red, Red Rose, You Are My Heart’s Delight, O For the Wings of a Dove. There is no discussion of his homosexuality or drink and drug dependence, but Plomley does touch on his depression and on his beloved sister Rose’s schizophrenia. 35. He did not storm out of the studio. 22. Parkinson had appeared himself in February 1972, and had been disappointed by the experience. 69. 67. Bizarrely, Roy Plomley himself was one of the earliest subjects – perhaps CEM Joad had again failed to show. The interview with actor and director Kathy Burke in August 2010 was one of the best received ever: funny, open and with fantastic choices – Sinatra, Lady Gaga, the Sex Pistols, T Rex, the Specials. It’s in the nature, shall we say, of a rather gentle horror picture.”. “Thank you for letting us hear your desert island discs,” the affable Plomley says as the programme ends. It never made it on air. Sie galt als eine der führenden Sopranistinnen der zweiten Hälfte des 20. • There is a comprehensive Desert Island Discs archive at bbc.co.uk. Dezember 1915 geboren Jarotschin in der Provinz Posen in Preußen, Deutschland (heute Polen) nach Friedrich Schwarz und seiner Frau Elisabeth (geb. Parkinson’s first castaway, on 5 January 1986, was film director Alan Parker, an ideal guest for the film-loving Parky. His account of how he overcame dyslexia and his school’s low expectations is powerful and moving. The 1961 interview is missing, but the later one is a delight, with Williams offering an unstoppable torrent of recollections in his usual range of voices. 59. Nicht wenige bedeu… Jaybuyer says: December 9, 2015 at 12:25 am. (Plomley made another appearance as castaway in May 1958, on this occasion interviewed by Eamonn Andrews.) Fragment Archive 1942-1959 — Desert Island Discs. “It caused her a pain she could not bear.”. 43. The second castaway, on 5 February 1942, was the critic James Agate. He chose a full-scale model of the Oval cricket ground as his luxury item. One of Young’s personal favourites is her interview, in January 2011, with Coronation Street’s legendary supplier of Lancashire hotpots, Betty Driver. John Betjeman made the first of two appearances in October 1954. 8. 17. I really envy lesbians, but I’m afraid I can’t get it together.” Her frankness caused a frisson of media excitement. Fröhlich). 27. But not just any old ukulele. I don’t ever want to hear again Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, Schubert’s 5th Symphony, Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony, Mozart’s 40th Symphony.”. Plomley, as ever, is obsessed by the island rather than political philosophy – did you ever go camping, would you try to escape etc? Plomley was interviewed by the BBC’s head of music Leslie Perowne in May 1942, and chose lots of Borodin. 53. Schwarzkopf wurde am 9. La Bardot has never been on the programme. Can YOU build a hut?” Preminger chooses scores from his films to accompany him on the island and his autobiography as his book. The castaway on 4 April 1981 was Gary Glitter. The fourth presenter was Kirsty Young, blessed with a warm voice and a sharp sense of humour. Amis had been on 25 years earlier, but that recording is missing. See what's new with book lending at the Internet Archive. 13. She was perhaps even more admired as a lieder-singer. Outstanding soprano of the LP era, at home both in opera and the concert hall . “I reminded her that the luxury had to be an inanimate object,” Lawley later explained. Her mother never really recovered. “I didn’t want to burden him with something he didn’t want,” she said. His luxury was a suicide pill. She also chose a memorable luxury – “a lifesize laminated photograph of James Caan from Dragons’ Den to bodysurf on”. "In any case, this famous Desert Island Discs broadcast has gone down in legend, immediately identifying Schwarzkopf for many who had never previously heard of her." 49. Guests are invited to choose the eight records they would take to a desert island. Elisabeth Schwarzkopf--soprano Peter Gellhorn--conductor Philharmonia ORchestra 1950. “She was a brilliant storyteller,” said Young, “a real pleasure to spend time with.”, 71. Plomley was succeeded, after much discussion of whether the show could or should go on without him, by Michael Parkinson. She had herself been a castaway in November 1987. In February 1971 Plomley interviewed the blunt-speaking Yorkshire-born showjumper Harvey Smith. 2. The 70th-anniversary guest on 29 January 2012 was David Attenborough – he had also been on in 1957, 1979 and 1998 (his actor brother Richard also appeared twice). 36. Dame Edna insisted on taking her bridesmaid Madge Allsop as her luxury. He chooses Amy Winehouse’s Love is a Losing Game as his favourite disc – prophetically wondering if she might succumb to unnamed demons – and an Aston Martin DB9 as his luxury. 10. There are two sticking points when one comes to consider Schwarzkopf. Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf was the consummate soprano who appeared in the world's greatest concert halls, from Covent Garden to La Scala and the Metropolitan in New York. 16. 70. Footballer Tony Adams also gave a very honest account of his battle with alcoholism in June 2010. Since the program's deviser Roy Plomley interviewed comedian Vic Oliver in January 1942, nearly 3,000 distinguished people from all walks of life have been stranded on the mythical island, accompanied only by eight records, one book, and a luxury. He had presented 1,791 editions of the programme over a 43-year period. He chose a Barclaycard as his luxury, saying that “while I’m there I’m saving money”. Plomley, who sounds especially unctuous, addresses her as ma’am. The Desert Island Discs … 11. She is not pleased when he asks her which of her eight records she would keep if seven were washed away. “You don’t get over it,” she says, “and you suffer greatly from people supposing you will. Fragment Archive 1942-1959 — Desert Island Discs. To reinforce the point, he chooses her singing in English. https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2006/aug/03/world.obituaries Schwarzkopf started her career with the Vienna State Opera. In January 1981 the castaway was Princess Margaret. He also chose a blow-up doll – plus, for reasons one doesn’t want to think about, a bicycle repair kit – as his luxury. Lawley’s final interview was with actor Joan Plowright on 27 August 2006. In an intense exchange, he argues that his “Rivers of Blood” speech in 1968 expressed Conservative party policy, denies he is a racist but predicts mass immigration will lead to civil war. “Not that I’ve ever used one,” she says, “but I’d love to have the chance.”. Michael was ready to talk truthfully about his life – the public successes and private traumas – and Young didn’t need to do much more than prompt and pace him. 12. She seems to have a sense that she is in for the duration as she unveils her “very first castaway”. 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