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Desert Island Discs

Marti Webb

Desert Island Discs

BBC

Society & Culture, Music Commentary, Music, Personal Journals

4.413.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 1982

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Roy Plomley's castaway is actress and singer Marti Webb.

Favourite track: The Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler Of Bexhill-0n-Sea by The Goons Book: Illustrated dictionary Luxury: Piano

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 1982, and the presenter was Roy Plumley. This week our cast away as the actress and singer Marty Webb. Marty how well could you put up with loneliness for a long time?

0:39.0

I think I'd have to cope. I think I would cope because I mean there's nothing much else to do I mean you

0:43.6

can't sit around feeling sorry for yourself for very long do you think this

0:46.2

miserable alliance of eight discs would help a lot it would help a lot I'm sure

0:50.5

it would help more if I had more discs. Was it hard to choose?

0:54.0

Very hard. I think it is for everybody that says that to you I'm sure but it is.

0:58.0

What's the first one you've got?

1:00.0

Tchaikovsky actually it's the number one in B-flat minor but it's the last part because it's the number one in B flat minor but it's the last part because it's the last

1:05.1

part that I really like.

1:06.1

The piano concerto?

1:07.1

Yes that's right by Richter and Von Currieu conducting. The The The The The closing passage of Tchaikovsky's first piano concerto with Richter, a soloist and Herbert

2:19.4

Voncarion conducting the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. Now I know you're from North London

2:25.0

Marty what part? North West actually, Wilsden Green. Any theatrical or

2:28.8

musical talent in the family? My father played the violin and my mother played the piano and sang a bit and that's all I mean no one connected with the theatre in any way

2:38.0

You began dancing very early didn't you? Yes when I was about four I suppose I went to my first

2:43.3

dancing class. Did you very exceptional promise? I believe I did then. Since then I

2:48.1

wouldn't say I do but yes I did when I was very young and I wanted to be a

2:51.6

ballerina. Were you taken to the theater a lot as a child?

2:54.0

Yes, I did, actually.

2:56.0

I went to variety shows more than I went to plays or musicals when I was very young.

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