Lieutenant Colonel C H Jaeger
Desert Island Discs
BBC
4.3 • 14.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 1968
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Christy Young, and this is a download from the Desert Island Discs Archive. |
| 0:06.2 | For rights reasons, we've had to shorten the music. |
| 0:09.5 | Full details can be found on the Castaways page on the Desert Island Discs website. |
| 0:14.9 | The programme was originally broadcast in 1968. |
| 0:19.8 | This is a recording as it was being broadcast rather than the studio recording, and for |
| 0:24.2 | that reason, you may use some degradation in the sound quality. |
| 0:31.2 | Each week, a well-known person has asked the question, if you were to be cast away and |
| 0:36.0 | learn on a desert island, which eight gramophone records would you choose to have with you? |
| 0:41.3 | As usual, the castaway is introduced by Roy Plumley. |
| 0:45.2 | This week, ladies and gentlemen, our castaway is a musician who's also a soldier, left |
| 0:49.6 | down in Colonel C. H. J. Goh. |
| 0:52.1 | Do you play record a lot? |
| 0:54.3 | Not so much nowadays, being rather busy, and since most of my library is a 78 library. |
| 1:01.7 | What do you want music to do for you on this desert island? |
| 1:05.2 | Well, I suppose to be absolutely honest to remind one of one's musical, apart from anything |
| 1:10.6 | else. |
| 1:11.6 | What's the first one you've chosen? |
| 1:13.2 | The first record I've chosen is I suppose a rather hackneyed record in some way, but I love |
| 1:18.5 | it. |
| 1:19.5 | Having been a choir boy, myself, and it's love and hear my prayer. |
| 1:48.5 | The first record I've chosen is I suppose a rather hackneyed record in some way, but I love it. |
| 1:58.5 | I suppose a rather hackneyed record in some way, but I love it. |
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