Anthony Andrews

Desert Island Discs

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Society & Culture, Music Commentary, Music, Personal Journals

4.4 • 13.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 1987

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

The castaway this week is the actor Anthony Andrews who, in 1981, won international acclaim for his portrayal of the doomed Sebastian Flyte in the television production of Brideshead Revisited. In conversation with Michael Parkinson, he talks about his roles on the stage, on television and in films, and he also chooses the eight records he would take to the mythical island.

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

Favourite track: For Unto Us A Child Is Born by George Frideric Handel Book: The complete works by Oscar Wilde Luxury: Piano

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0:00.0	Hello I'm Kresti 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 1987 and the presenter was Michael Parkinson. Our castaway is an actor with an international reputation. It was television that
0:34.8	set him on course for stardom when he had a huge success in Britain and America
0:38.8	playing the part of Lieutenant Brian Ash in Danger UXB and Sebastian Flight in the much acclaimed
0:44.0	Bride's Head revisited. At present he's working at the National Theatre in
0:48.1	Coming Into land. He is Anthony Andrews.
0:50.6	Anthony, are you musical at all?
0:54.0	Well, I like to think so.
0:55.6	I definitely like to think so.
0:56.6	I mean, there's music in the family, to say the least.
0:59.3	Father having been a musician, conductor, arranger, composer, and my mother having been a musician conductor, arranger, composer.
1:04.2	And my mother having been a dancer.
1:05.4	I mean, it was in me without a doubt.
1:07.6	Looking at the catalog of stage and film and television,
1:10.8	well, you've done, it's quite extraordinary range of it but there's one
1:13.8	absent tea there that's a missing element yes the more missing element would you like to do a
1:17.8	musical it's a secret ambition has been for years I don't know if I could ever
1:21.5	sing a difficult role it would have to be a particularly kind of fun show I suppose, but yes it's a deep, deep passion. I mean the thought of actually standing there and listening to the orchestra play the overture would
1:33.7	promptly render me completely comatose and unable to go on at all.
1:37.4	What about the musical influences?
1:39.6	I mean it was a one particular piece of music that had an effect on you as a person growing up that
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