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Desert Island Discs

Cindy Buxton & Annie Price

Desert Island Discs

BBC

Society & Culture, Music Commentary, Music, Personal Journals

4.413.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 1983

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Cindy Buxton made several successful wildlife films in Africa for television. Then, in 1978, she decided to film on the Falkland Islands and managed to persuade Annie Price to give up photographing children to become her assistant. In conversation with Roy Plomley, they talk about their experiences, about their life during the invasion, and they choose the four records each which they would take to the mythical island. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Sailing by Rod Stewart Book: A book on explorers and Jonathan Livingstone's Seagull by Richard Bach Luxury: Cow and a box of soap

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0:00.0

Hello, I'm Christy Young, and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs Archive.

0:05.4

For rights reasons, we've had to shorten the music.

0:08.4

The program was originally broadcast in 1983, and the presenter was Roy Plumley.

0:30.0

On our Desert Island this week are two ladies who are quite accustomed to being on one.

0:34.8

They form a team of wildlife photographers, and they became news when they inadvertently

0:40.0

became mixed up in the Falklands hostilities. Here are Cindy Buxton and Annie Price.

0:46.1

Now, you have four disc seats or four cassettes if they're more convenient. Do you orderly take

0:51.2

music in isolation, Cindy? Yes, we do. Yes, we always take. I actually think at least a couple

0:56.1

of dozen cassettes with us. We've got just a very small tape recorder, purely for convenience,

1:02.2

size and weight and everything. So you know from experience what lasts longest and sounds best?

1:07.6

That's right. Yes, you do. Do you have roughly similar tastes or do you have to go to opposite

1:12.5

ends of the island to play your record? Well, luckily on the whole we've got similar taste,

1:17.0

but there are one or two occasions where I will tend to walk off and go and have a chat with the

1:22.3

penguins rather than listen to the record that Annie wants to play at the time.

1:25.6

This will be revealed. Are we going to spin a coin and see who starts? Here we go.

1:33.1

Annie, will you call? Heads. Indeed, it is. And you're going to start. What's the first one?

1:39.4

Well, my first record I've chosen is the student prints with Maria Lanza singing it.

1:46.5

And it's a track called I'll Walk With God. And I've chosen this really because

1:52.0

my first memory of any music at all was at a very early age when my father, who had an amazing

1:58.2

collection of classical music, every single evening after supper, he used to sit me down and he

2:03.6

used to say, now education time, I'm going to play some music and I want to tell you all about it

2:09.3

and see whether you like it or not. And so we used to sit down and play a lot of music. And one of

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