Nina & Frederick

Desert Island Discs

BBC

Music, Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Music Commentary

4.3 • 14.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 1966

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Roy Plomley's castaways are singers Nina & Frederick. Favourite track: Qual cor, qual cor tradisti by Vincenzo Bellini Book: I Ching and The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon Luxury: Harp and a flute

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0:00.0	This download is the only extract the BBC has of this edition of Desertine and Disks.
0:06.0	The presenter was Roy Plumley.
0:09.0	Frederick, you are Dutch, are you not?
0:11.0	Yes, I am Dutch, my wife Nina is the Danish one.
0:15.0	And I believe you first met when you were both very young.
0:18.0	Oh yes, and perhaps before that because our parents knew each other.
0:23.0	Before that.
0:25.0	Yes.
0:26.0	But Nina, did you have a musical education as a youngster?
0:30.0	Not very much.
0:31.0	I was seeing one winter after I came back from America.
0:34.0	I only had one thing in my head and that was to go back again.
0:37.0	My mother didn't want me to go back to America.
0:39.0	And I sort of rather buried myself in music.
0:42.0	Also I had a very marvelous music teacher who was just as much a teacher of life really,
0:49.0	as a teacher of music.
0:51.0	But I only did it for the one winter and then I went to Paris instead
0:54.0	and went on with my studies of language.
0:57.0	Yes.
0:58.0	Frederick, what about you?
1:00.0	Well, I have no musical training.
1:03.0	I never studied.
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