Julian Bream

Desert Island Discs

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🗓️ 9 July 1983

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Julian Bream first played the guitar on radio in Children's Hour when he was only 13. This led to guest appearances in a series on the Light Programme, and so his career took off. Before long he also took up the lute and played his part in the revival of interest in early music. In conversation with Roy Plomley, he talks about his long career and 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]

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Christy Young, and this is a download from the Desert Island
0:03.8	Discs Archive. This edition may be slightly different from what was
0:07.8	actually broadcast, but it's the only version we have. It comes from the
0:12.1	British Library's radio collection. It was
0:14.8	archived without the music so although the Castaways choices are introduced
0:19.5	they're not part of this recording. Full details can be found on the Castaways page on the Desert Island Discs website.
0:27.0	The program was originally broadcast in 1983, and the presenter was Roy Plumley.
0:33.0	On a desert island this week is the guitarist and latinist Julian Brem.
0:38.0	Julian, how well could you endure solitude all alone on this wretched island? Well, I probably could endure it rather than a lot of people
0:47.0	because, well, in my profession I am nearly always playing on my own,
0:51.0	and traveling on my own, and for the last nearly 20 years I've lived
0:55.8	right out in the country away from what would seem ordinary civilization and I
1:02.4	rather enjoy that I don't think I would enjoy the desert
1:05.5	island for too long do you think a few discs would help I think a good few discs would
1:10.0	certainly help or just eight do you play discs a lot at home? Not a great deal, no.
1:15.3	I think one of the reasons is that my low-fai, as opposed to high-fai, it doesn't sound very well. So I'm rather loads of play records and they sound awfully
1:25.6	scratchy.
1:26.6	Did you have any plan in choosing this meager allowance of just eight discs?
1:31.2	Well I found it very, very hard to do.
1:34.0	For example, the composer like Mozart, who I probably adore more than any other, I could have
1:40.5	chosen at least 20, 25 pieces.
1:44.0	But I have chosen one piece which actually had a tremendous impact on me
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