Quentin Crewe
Desert Island Discs
BBC
4.3 • 14.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 1984
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Quentin Crewe has always been an enthusiastic traveller and even the onset of muscular dystrophy has not curbed him. His other great interest is in food. He has paid for both of these enthusiasms by journalism and by writing books about them. In conversation with Roy Plomley, he talks about his fascinating life and his travels, which have included a journey across the Sahara with his wheelchair.
[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]
Favourite track: Violin Concerto No.1 in G Minor - 3rd Movement by Max Bruch Book: Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Luxury: Potter's wheel
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Kirstie Young, and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs Archive. |
| 0:05.5 | For rights reasons, we've had to shorten the music. |
| 0:08.6 | The program was originally broadcast in 1984, and the presenter was Roy Plumley. |
| 0:13.5 | Music This week, our writer, journalists and traveller, Quentin Crue. |
| 0:35.5 | Quentin, have your travels ever taken you to any deserted islands? |
| 0:39.3 | They've taken me to lots of islands and lots of deserts, but never to a desert island. |
| 0:45.8 | How much does music mean to you? |
| 0:48.6 | I often wonder about this, because I've just done a trip across the Sahara for a year and a half, |
| 0:53.8 | and I was rather surprised how little I missed it. |
| 0:57.4 | We did all take with us. |
| 0:59.3 | There's things that you can plug into your ears, |
| 1:02.4 | and they all got full of sand and didn't work after a few weeks. |
| 1:05.4 | But I was rather surprised that I didn't miss it very much. |
| 1:09.9 | And on the other hand, I think music is very important subconsciously to everybody. |
| 1:17.0 | You know, one always remembers people by music, at least I think I do. |
| 1:20.8 | Do you have a bigish collection of records or tapes? |
| 1:24.3 | No, they've got rather diminished now. |
| 1:26.5 | Because when one travels, |
| 1:28.7 | somebody always pinches them when one's away. |
| 1:30.4 | But I have got a lot of old cracked 78s |
| 1:33.0 | and things that practically won't play. |
| 1:35.1 | Well, what's the first one you've chosen for your island? |
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