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Desert Island Discs

Classic Desert Island Discs: Daniel Kahneman

Desert Island Discs

BBC

Society & Culture, Music Commentary, Music, Personal Journals

4.4 • 13.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Another chance to hear Daniel Kaheneman, interviewed by Kirsty Young in August 2013. Widely acknowledged as one of the world's most influential living psychologists, his many years of study have centred on how and why we make the decisions we do. As a child, he lived in Nazi occupied France and he says that, from a young age, he already had a pretty good idea that he wanted to be an academic. He says "My mother had a big influence ... in fact I credit her with the fact that I became a psychologist ... because she got me interested in people and listening to gossip. I've been fascinated by gossip ever since." DISC ONE: Don MacLean - American Pie DISC TWO: Tino Rossi - Bohémienne aux Grands Yeux Noirs DISC THREE: Shirat Hanoded (the wanderer’s song) sung by Betty Klein DISC FOUR: Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto, 2nd movement, performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Frederick Stock with Arthur Schnabel on piano DISC FIVE: Danny Kaye - Ugly Duckling DISC SIX: The Beatles - Eleanor Rigby DISC SEVEN – Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet in A Major DISC EIGHT: Bach Piano Suite – played by Daniel’s grandson Producer: Cathy Drysdale.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts

0:04.9

Hi, Laura LeVernier.

0:06.4

Desert Island Discs is taking its usual summer break,

0:09.0

so to keep you entertained until we're back on air,

0:11.4

we've chosen some fabulous additions from our back catalog

0:14.4

to listen to while you're on your holidays.

0:17.1

As usual, as this is a podcast,

0:19.1

the music has been shortened for rights reasons.

0:22.0

This week's castaway is psychologist and Nobel laureate,

0:25.1

Daniel Kahneman,

0:26.4

Kirsty Young, cast him away in August 2013.

0:29.8

Music

0:45.4

My castaway this week is the psychologist, Daniel Kahneman,

0:49.1

whose work in the fields of judgment and decision-making

0:52.2

led to him being awarded the Nobel Prize for economics.

0:55.9

His work has revealed extraordinary truths

0:57.8

about our emotional happiness, our life satisfaction,

1:01.4

and something called behavioral economics.

1:04.3

What motivates individuals and institutions

1:07.3

to make the financial choices they do?

1:09.9

He is a much-valued voice of wisdom

1:12.6

amid the global economic crisis.

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