Mary Ellis

Desert Island Discs

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Society & Culture, Music Commentary, Music, Personal Journals

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🗓️ 25 December 1982

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Mary Ellis.

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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 a star of musicals in the Straight Theatre and of Opera.
0:37.0	It's Mary Ellis.
0:39.0	Mary, could you endure loneliness?
0:41.0	Yeah.
0:42.0	Could you look after yourself fairly well on a desert island? you endure loneliness? Yeah.
0:43.0	Could you look after yourself fairly well on a desert island?
0:45.1	Are you a practical person?
0:46.1	Oh yes, I should love to sort of find out how to do everything.
0:50.3	You know, if I had to find big enough leaves to cover me up I'd build something.
0:54.8	Ever done any fishing or anything useful like that?
0:57.8	Yes, I learned to fish for trout. There wouldn't be trout there I'm sure, but I could fish
1:02.4	yes. Would you try to escape?
1:04.8	No not until I saw sail on the horizon or some smoke for smoke stage.
1:11.2	Well you have eight records to help you in your lendliness. Did you find it very difficult to choose that me?
1:17.5	Yes, terribly difficult because I love all kinds of music. I think the chief thing one would need is um
1:25.8	stimulation and uplift and something to carry one through and something to put one
1:31.4	to sleep and wake one up.
1:34.0	Well where do we start? What's the first one?
1:37.0	I think I need perhaps the Mozart horn concerta to wake me up in the morning.
1:42.0	Right, which one? Second one. I think that would be the best. The the Oh, well, the one of the other the other the
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