Peter Alliss
Desert Island Discs
BBC
4.4 • 13.7K Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 1987
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
The castaway this week is the former Ryder Cup golfer Peter Alliss, who has become one of the game's best-known commentators. In conversation with Michael Parkinson, he talks about his life and career.
[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]
Favourite track: Pomp and Circumstance March No 1 in D Major by Edward Elgar Book: A History of the English-Speaking Peoples by Sir Winston Churchill Luxury: Sand-yacht
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 rights reasons we've had to shorten the music. |
| 0:08.0 | The program was originally broadcast in 1987 and the presenter was Michael Parkinson. Our castaway is that rarest of all commentator, the man whose voice has become synonymous with one particular sport. |
| 0:36.0 | If Arlet was a voice of cricket, the now man can make a similar claim to the game of golf. |
| 0:41.0 | He is Peter Alice. |
| 0:42.0 | Peter, might you be any good you think on this |
| 0:43.9 | desert island are you a practical person? My wife and all my friends would say no but I'm |
| 0:48.8 | one of these strange creatures that's kept a few secrets back over the years and when I was a child living some six |
| 0:55.0 | or seven miles from Bournemouth in the country around Ferndown Golf Town. |
| 0:59.5 | We had a little gang it was called the Three Domino Gang and we used to go down in the woods and I was |
| 1:04.6 | quite good at making a camp you know branches and things like that and |
| 1:09.2 | digging little caves out so I would get under cover yes. |
| 1:13.0 | Would you make a golf course you think on this as well as I might be a lot of bunkers |
| 1:20.4 | and things dotted around I've only been fishing twice in my life, so I'm not one of these |
| 1:26.1 | people that could get a bit of string and find a bit of wire. I'm not too sure if there wasn't an abundance |
| 1:31.0 | of fresh fruit and stuff, I'm not too sure, you know, making |
| 1:33.8 | snares and catching things, not too good. |
| 1:36.6 | What about your own company? |
| 1:37.6 | Are you any good by yourself? |
| 1:39.0 | To tell the truth, not very good. |
| 1:41.1 | No. |
| 1:42.1 | Although I'm better now than I used to be, probably that's because one lives |
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