248. Marooned With My Music: Rick Thompson

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🗓️ 6 January 2015

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

"Marooned with my Music" is an interview concept based on a popular and long-running BBC Radio programme called "Desert Island Discs". In that BBC programme, celebrities and noteworthy people are invited onto the show for an interview. They imagine that they have been stranded on a remote desert island and are only allowed to take certain items with them, namely: 8 pieces of music, one book and one luxury item. During the programme, the interviewee is asked about their life and their musical choices. Desert Island Discs remains one of the BBC's most beloved radio programmes and has been broadcast on the radio for many years. In my version, "Marooned with my Music" I have decided to interview members of my family: My Dad, my Mum and my Brother. Click here for more information and song titles: http://wp.me/p4IuUx-2ha

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0:00.0	You're listening to Luke's English podcast. For more information visit teach atuke.co.uk.
0:07.0	Hello welcome to Luke's English podcast. This is a sort of special episode which is called
0:15.8	Marooned with my music and this is based on a BBC radio program, a long-running radio show
0:22.4	which I have actually talked to about before on the
0:25.4	podcast that one is called Desert Island Disks and it's a sort of national institution
0:30.6	which has been on BBC Radio 4 for many, many years.
0:35.0	I love listening to Desert Island discs and so does my whole family.
0:40.0	I'd like to do a similar kind of thing on Luke's English podcast, but I've decided to call it
0:45.1	Marooned with my music. If you're marooned it basically means that you're stranded.
0:50.9	The concept behind the show is that guests come onto the program and they have to imagine that they have been, for some reason, marooned on a desert island.
1:01.0	Maybe a boat has crashed or there's been a plane accident or something. It doesn't really matter.
1:05.7	The main thing is that the guest has been marooned on a desert island and from the wreckage
1:10.6	they've been able to rescue just a few things, just a few items. Eight records, eight
1:17.0	records, eight, seven-inch pieces of vinyl, strangely enough, and a record player. They also get a copy of the Oxford English
1:26.9	dictionary in my version, the complete works of William Shakespeare and one other book and at the end one luxury item as well which
1:40.4	can be agreed between my guest and me.
1:44.0	Okay, so let's go.
1:46.8	This is the first episode of Marooned with my music,
1:49.6	and let's get started. I'm going to The Welcome to Maroons with my music.
2:27.0	I'm cast away today is my dad, Rick Thompson.
2:33.6	Rick has been working in broadcast journalism
2:35.8	for over 45 years, including nearly 30 years at the BBC,
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