Michael Ffolkes
Desert Island Discs
BBC
4.3 • 14.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 1984
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Michael Ffolkes, the cartoonist, works principally for the Daily Telegraph and Punch, which first published one of his cartoons when he was only 17 years old. In conversation with Roy Plomley, he recalls his training for the job which included art school, the Royal Navy and the snooker table, and he chooses the eight records he would take to the mythical island.
[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]
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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 costaway this week is an artist, he specializes, as a cartoonist. His name is Michael Folks, |
| 0:37.0 | two small-elves folks, and Michael, you're a very prolific artist. You get through a vast amount of work every week, every day. Do you play music while you work? |
| 0:47.0 | I play a lot of music. Yes, it's a marvelous companion actually, otherwise one might go man. |
| 0:53.0 | Radio or discs or what? |
| 0:54.0 | Both, both. |
| 0:56.0 | Radio three, I'm horrified to say, because that's not your program, and a lot of discs. |
| 1:01.0 | Have you any musicals kill yourself? None, whatever. I have a very of discs. Have you any musicals killed yourself? None whatever. I have a very |
| 1:04.2 | pleasant light tenor which I think is very pleasant. |
| 1:07.1 | Mm-hmm. Especially in bedrooms, very good in bedrooms. |
| 1:11.2 | Did you have any plan in choosing your disc? Are you choosing |
| 1:15.5 | nostalgia or great works or how did you do that about it? Well they seem to be |
| 1:21.5 | sort of the same thing. |
| 1:24.2 | It is a very nostalgic choice. |
| 1:26.1 | Where do we start? |
| 1:27.9 | Well, we start with a childhood sweetheart of mine. |
| 1:30.9 | I think she was a year older than me, Judy Garland, and this was a record I used to play |
| 1:35.9 | on a very terrible old machine with my cousin who was more like my brother. |
| 1:41.4 | I never had a brother, but he was very close. |
| 1:44.1 | And we used to play this record over and over again and it's called Dear Mr cable. |
| 1:50.6 | cable. dear Mr. Gable. Gable. You made me love you. |
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