Miss Read

Desert Island Discs

BBC

Society & Culture, Music Commentary, Music, Personal Journals

4.4 • 13.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 1977

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Miss Read.

Favourite track: The Importance Of Being Ernest (Act 1) by Oscar Wilde Book: The Diary of a Country Parson 1758-1802 by James Woodforde Luxury: Exercise books and ballpoint pens

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Kirstie Young, and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs archive.
0:05.8	For rights reasons, we've had to shorten the music.
0:08.8	The program was originally broadcast in 1977, and the presenter was Roy Plumlee. Our cast away this week is the novelist Miss Reed. Miss Reed, have you ever imagined
0:37.5	yourself as a Robinson Crusoe? No I haven't until I was invited to come on your programme, and then I rather like the idea of being a castaway.
0:47.0	Does music mean a lot to you?
0:50.0	Not, I think, as much as words do, but I do listen to music quite a bit.
0:55.0	Do you play an instrument?
0:56.0	No, I ought to, but I learnt to play the piano, but I can't play it.
1:00.0	It didn't take.
1:01.0	It didn't take.
1:02.0	What's your first record? The piano concerto in A major by Mozart, K488.
1:08.0	Why do you choose that? I like it because it reminds me of how a piano should be played. This is, I think Dennis Matthews
1:15.4	at his very best. And I had to practice so much and could never play at all that this is a comforting
1:21.2	thing to think that it can be played this way. Oh, The The Oh, I'm not. Part of the first movement of Mozart's piano concerto in A Major, K-488, Dennis Matthews, as the soloist.
2:30.0	What part of the country do you come from?
2:32.0	I live in Berkshire. Yes, do you come from? I live in Berkshire.
2:34.0	Yes, do you come from Berkshire?
2:36.0	No, I was born in London
2:38.0	and moved into the country when I was about seven.
2:41.0	One of a large family?
2:42.0	No, unfortunately, one of three girls and I was the
2:45.2	one in the middle. What was your very first ambition? I wasn't terribly ambitious
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