Phil Drabble

Desert Island Discs

BBC

Society & Culture, Music Commentary, Music, Personal Journals

4.4 • 13.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 1977

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Roy Plomley's castaway is naturalist Phil Drabble.

Favourite track: Recording Of The Song Of The Blackbird Book: Shorthand instruction book with paper and pens Luxury: Set of bird-ringing tools, including rings

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Christy Young, and this is a download from the Desert Island
0:03.8	Discs Archive. This edition may be slightly different from what was
0:07.8	actually broadcast, but it's the only version we have. It comes from the
0:12.0	British Library's radio collection. It was
0:14.8	archived without the music, so although the Castaways choices are introduced,
0:19.4	they're not part of this recording. Full details can be found on the Castaway's page on the Desert Island Discs website.
0:26.4	The program was originally broadcast in 1977.
0:30.0	And the presenter was Roy Plumley.
0:33.0	Our castaway this week is a countryman and a naturalist.
0:37.0	It's Phil Drabble.
0:39.0	Phil, you're a person I admire because you knew what you wanted in life and you worked towards it and it took you
0:44.1	about 25 years to get there. It shows it can be done. As a tiny child I was always
0:50.1	interested in any sort of wildlife and I always wanted to be a naturalist but it did
0:55.3	take an awful lot of graft.
0:57.0	Well we'll tell the story in more detail later.
1:01.6	Now you've had eight discs to choose. How have you been getting on?
1:05.0	You got the whole late? Yes, I've got the whole eight. They're a fairly variegated
1:09.6	eight because I'm not a very musical sort of chap.
1:13.4	Do you play discs a lot?
1:14.8	I haven't got a gramophone at home.
1:17.0	Well, here's a key point.
1:18.4	BBC standard issue, solar batteries and everything. What's the first one he got here?
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