Bertice Reading

Desert Island Discs

BBC

Society & Culture, Music Commentary, Music, Personal Journals

4.4 • 13.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 1984

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Bertice Reading's career took off when she won a talent contest and for the prize sang with the Lionel Hampton Band for a week. Later, she started to act and was in the first production of Sandy Wilson's musical Valmouth. In both America and Europe she appeared in cabaret and musicals, and she was a great success here in the musical One Mo' Time. In conversation with Roy Plomley, she talks about her career and chooses the eight records she would take to the mythical island. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: The War of the Worlds - Epilogue by Jeff Wayne Book: The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran Luxury: King-size, brass bed with a feather mattress

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Christy Young, and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs Archive.
0:05.5	For rights reasons, we've had to shorten the music. The program was originally broadcast
0:10.3	in 1984, and the presenter was Roy Plumley.
0:30.6	On our Desert Island this week is the actress and cabaret singer, Bertie Sredding.
0:35.6	Bertie, how would you feel about a spell on a Desert Island?
0:39.2	I think it would be just the most marvelous thing I could think of. I mean, if you couldn't make
0:43.3	it here with all these people, it must be marvelous to be by yourself for a while.
0:47.1	Now you have eight discs with you. Do you play discs about the house a lot?
0:51.5	Oh, when I wake up in the morning, I immediately have music. I can't live through the day without music.
0:57.2	Do you have a big collection?
0:58.6	Oh, yes. I have about 3,000.
1:00.8	3,000?
1:01.6	Yes. That is a lot.
1:03.4	Collected over the years.
1:04.4	Did you have any plan in choosing?
1:06.4	I mean, are you planning nostalgically or what?
1:10.2	Well, some of them are nostalgic. Some of them have meanings because the people who are singing them
1:14.6	had a special purpose in my life.
1:17.1	And some of them are just music that I just like to bask in and things that I could play over
1:21.6	and over and over again.
1:22.8	Where do we start? What's the first one?
1:24.8	Well, I thought that since as a little girl,
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