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🗓️ 8 May 1982
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Roy Plomley's castaway is soprano Lucia Popp.
Favourite track: Teddy Bears' Picnic by Henry Hall and BBC Dance Orchestra Book: The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann Luxury: Teddy bear
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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 1982, and the presenter was Roy Plumley. Our cast way this week is a singer, the L'eric Soprano Lutia Pop. |
0:36.4 | How well could you endure loneliness for a long time? |
0:38.9 | There are some things that they could make the loneliness quite bearable. |
0:43.0 | Such as? Like bears. |
0:45.0 | Bearable, yeah. |
0:47.0 | Now, apart from being away from your family and friends, |
0:51.0 | what would be the worst thing about it? Oh, worth thing about |
0:57.0 | it. I think it would be the lack of work. I love to work, I mean I love my work and I would probably miss it. I'm such a kind of a workaholic. |
1:08.0 | What would you be happiest to have got away from? |
1:12.0 | The work probably I don't like. Too much work. Do you collect |
1:19.2 | records? Have you a lot in your home? No, I don't actually. |
1:23.7 | Sometimes I buy a record just when I enter the shop |
1:26.9 | and then I go with 20 or 30 records back. |
1:29.8 | But I don't really collect them. |
1:31.8 | What's the first one you've chosen out of this miserable allowance of eight for your island? |
1:37.0 | Well, you didn't give me too much opportunity. |
1:40.0 | I think only cruel eight records. And I think of the cruel eight records and I think a Bible is already there. |
1:46.4 | And the Bible's there and Shakespeare. |
1:48.4 | And we have sort of pandone because I think Bach is a musical Bible and I choose a violin concert on in |
1:56.6 | E major, second movement played by David E Estrach. struck. Oh, the The The beginning of the second movement of Bach's violin concerto in E major with David E E E E E E E E E E E E Estrach as soloist. |
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