Lucy Irvine

Desert Island Discs

BBC

Society & Culture, Music Commentary, Music, Personal Journals

4.4 • 13.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 1984

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Lucy Irvine has experienced the reality of life on a desert island, although for her year-long sojourn she did have a companion. In conversation with Roy Plomley, she talks about the terrible problems she encountered, particularly the lack of water, and she chooses the eight records she would take if she were to be castaway again.

[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

Favourite track: All By Myself by Big Bill Broonzy Book: Language Made Plain by Anthony Burgess Luxury: Mosquito coils and an apple pip

Transcript

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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 1984 and the presenter was Roy Plumlee. Our cast away this week has had practical experience of being on a deserted tropical island.
0:34.0	She's the author of the book, Castaway, it's Lucy Erveen.
0:38.0	Tell me about yourself, Lucy.
0:40.0	Mid-20s, yes?
0:41.0	Yes, I was 25 when I went to the island. Blond, very pretty. How much does music mean in your life?
0:48.0	Music means a great deal to me. It's something that's always been able to move me up or down on the scale of emotional well-being.
0:57.0	And originally, we did plan to take some music with us to the island.
1:01.0	But this fell through as my funds ran out and I was unable to buy anything but the most
1:06.0	basic provisions and certainly couldn't afford batteries for a tape recorder. However, later I
1:10.6	realized how glad I was not to take any music to the island because that way I was able to listen to Toon's own music.
1:17.0	And Toon being the name of the island?
1:19.0	Toon was the island I lived on for a year, yes.
1:21.0	You did take a flute?
1:22.0	I took a flute, yes, with this rather grandiès idea of teaching
1:25.9	myself to play while I was there. I thought it would be a good desert island occupation, but I succumbed
1:32.2	to shortness of breath and malnutrition and all the difficult
1:35.9	things that happened to us during the hard survival phases and the flute succumbed to tropical
1:39.8	fungus.
1:40.8	So that idea had to be abandoned.
1:42.4	Well, we're sending you now to our island and we have a very strict rule that eight discs must be taken.
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