Christopher Reeve
Desert Island Discs
BBC
4.4 • 13.7K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 1984
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Christopher Reeve is probably best-known for his film performances as Superman and Clark Kent, but he has made several other films, including Deathtrap and The Bostonians, and he has appeared on stage many times, particularly in the United States. In conversation with Roy Plomley, he talks about his many activities, which include being a professionally qualified pilot.
[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]
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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 Wright's reasons, we've had to shorten the music. |
| 0:08.0 | The program was originally broadcast in 1984 and the presenter was Roy Plumlee. Our cast away this week is an actor with a very wide range and many interests it's |
| 0:35.6 | Christopher Reeve. |
| 0:37.6 | Christopher, with what degree of dread would you view a desert island, could you endure loneliness? |
| 0:41.8 | I think given these records that I'm going to take with me, probably it would be easier. |
| 0:47.4 | But no, I am a social person, and I think that that's part of why I'm an actor there is that need to communicate with our |
| 0:55.0 | fellow beings and I think that an actor without an opportunity in a location to perform would |
| 0:59.7 | be a miserable kind of person. |
| 1:02.0 | I would have to be back among people pretty soon. |
| 1:05.5 | Pretty soon. |
| 1:06.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:07.5 | Music means a lot in your life. |
| 1:08.5 | Yes. |
| 1:09.5 | So the eight records would give you some comfort? |
| 1:11.7 | They would and I've approached this isolation on the Desert Island from a practical point of view. |
| 1:18.8 | The records I don't pretend to be a musicologist or anything. |
| 1:21.8 | I'm not picking eight things for the time capsule |
| 1:24.0 | but eight things that would help me emotionally to get through that period of time. |
| 1:28.3 | How long did it take you to choose? Could you make a list pretty smartly or did you think |
| 1:32.3 | about it for a few days? |
| 1:33.4 | No, I went much more instinctively. |
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