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
Jun 24, 2001 • 36min
Sir Harry Kroto
Sue Lawley's castaway is chemist Sir Harry Kroto.Favourite track: 3rd Movement of Symphony No4 in G Major by Gustav Mahler
Book: Quantum Electro Dynamics Physics by Feynman
Luxury: Airbrush computer graphics set
Jun 17, 2001 • 36min
Frank McCourt
Sue Lawley's castaway is Pulitzer prize-winning writer Frank McCourt.Favourite track: The Kyrie from St Cecilia Mass by Charles Gounod
Book: Oxford Anthology of English Verse
Luxury: A pair of binoculars
Jun 10, 2001 • 37min
Sir Kyffin Williams
This week Sue Lawley's castaway is the Welsh painter, Sir Kyffin Williams. It was only when he was invalided out of the army because of his epilepsy that Kyffin decided to paint. "You are not normal. You should do art" was one doctor's verdict. Since then, no artist has done more to portray the brooding, mountainous landscape of North Wales.He chooses eight records to take with him to the mythical island.[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]Favourite track: Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring by Johann Sebastian Bach
Book: Germinal by Emile Zola
Luxury: A small painting called the Head of a Girl by Michael Schwerz
Jun 3, 2001 • 38min
Sir Thomas Allen
Sue Lawley's castaway is opera singer Sir Thomas Allen.Favourite track: Act 3 of Meistersinger von Nurnberg by Richard Wagner
Book: Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy
Luxury: Unlimited supply of paper, paints, pencils
May 27, 2001 • 35min
Courtney Pine
Sue Lawley's castaway is jazz saxophonist Courtney Pine.Favourite track: Guiltiness by Bob Marley and the Whalers
Book: Beneath the Underdog by Charles Mingus
Luxury: 1939 edition tenor saxophone
May 20, 2001 • 36min
Sir Timothy Clifford
Sue Lawley's castaway is National Galleries of Scotland Director Sir Timothy Clifford.Favourite track: La Ci Darem La Mano in Act 1 of Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: A La Recherche du Temps Perdu by Marcel Proust
Luxury: Renaissance casket with a selection of 15th & 16th century Italian drawings in it
May 13, 2001 • 35min
Sir John Sulston
Sue Lawley's castaway is biologist Sir John Sulston.Favourite track: String Quartet in B flat major by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: Oxford Anthology of English Verse
Luxury: The microscope used to examine the lineage of the roundworm
May 6, 2001 • 36min
Margaret Drabble
Sue Lawley's castaway is writer Margaret Drabble.Favourite track: I Know That My Redeemer Liveth - (from Messiah) by George Frideric Handel
Book: Old Wives Tale by Arnold Bennett
Luxury: Painting by Maurice Cockerill - Ariadne's Thread
Apr 29, 2001 • 36min
Tasmin Little
Sue Lawley's castaway is violinist Tasmin Little.Favourite track: Daphnis & Chloe by Maurice Ravel
Book: Harry Potter book by J K Rowling or Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
Luxury: Endless supply of coffee
Apr 22, 2001 • 33min
Chris Tarrant
Sue Lawley's castaway is broadcaster Chris Tarrant.Favourite track: Tequila Sunrise by Eagles
Book: The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
Luxury: A lucky sixpence
