Albert & Michel Roux

Desert Island Discs

BBC

Society & Culture, Music Commentary, Music, Personal Journals

4.4 • 13.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 1986

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Albert and Michel Roux each have their own restaurants, which are among the best in this country. In conversation with Michael Parkinson, they talk about their upbringing in France and their period as pastry cooks in the British Embassy in Paris. Then Albert became commis de cuisine to Lady Astor, and Michel chef to the Rothschilds, before they opened a restaurant together in England.

[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Kirstie Young, and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs archive.
0:05.0	For rights reasons, we've had to shorten the music.
0:08.0	The program was originally broadcast in 1986, and the presenter was Michael Parkinson. Our Desert Allen Castaways are brothers who have become Britain's best known restaurateurs.
0:34.9	More than that, they are recognised two of the best chefs in the world.
0:38.6	They've been described as gastronomic missionaries whose purpose in life is to teach us how to eat. They are Michelle and
0:44.8	Al-Baireu.
0:45.8	Gentlemen, welcome, I must ask you, you're going to share this desert our own together, you're better than
0:50.8	most of our guests have got it to ourselves.
0:53.0	But do you think you'd get on well together?
0:55.0	Michelle, can I ask you first of all?
0:57.0	I think it'd be back to the old days really, so I mean I look forward for that.
1:00.0	How about you?
1:01.0	I would sing in that sentence sentence what strengths of Michels would you
1:05.6	discover do you think on this desert island would it bring the best out of him and
1:09.2	if so what would be the best of him. Is humor, which I love.
1:15.0	Michelle, what about you?
1:16.0	He is a good cook and I think I can swim well so if I go swimming and pick up few shellfish
1:22.2	I mean I think he can prepare a good meal.
1:24.4	Let me ask the reverse of that question what would most get on your nerves about
1:29.6	the other brother Michelle Rube? I can't think of anything, to be honest.
1:34.0	I'm going to enjoy it all.
1:35.0	Albert?
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