Raymond Briggs

Desert Island Discs

BBC

Music Commentary, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Music

4.4 • 13.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 1983

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Raymond Briggs began his career as an illustrator after studying art at the Slade School. He first achieved fame through his picture books for children, Father Christmas and Fungus the Bogeyman, but has since moved into the adult world with When the Wind Blows, in which an elderly couple struggle to survive a nuclear attack.

As he told Roy Plomley when they met to choose his eight records, he has now turned this most recent picture book into a stage play.

[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

Favourite track: The Boogie Rocks by Albert Ammons Rhythm Kings Book: The complete works by Beachcomber Luxury: Billiard table with snooker balls and cue

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0:00.0	I'm Rory Stewart and I grew up wanting to be a hero and I'm still fascinated by the ideas of heroism.
0:08.9	In my new series, I'm taking in the long sweep of history from Achilles to Zelensky and asking, what is a hero?
0:16.2	Simply doing your job, being a decent human being.
0:20.0	A true hero is someone who just kind of shines by
0:23.1	their own light and that light is to be recognised by others. The long history of heroism with me,
0:28.6	Rory Stewart. Listen on BBC Sounds. Hello, I'm Krista Young and this is a podcast from the
0:35.5	Desert Island Discs Archive.
0:40.1	For rights reasons, we've had to shorten the music.
0:43.0	The program was originally broadcast in 1983,
0:45.8	and the presenter was Roy Plumley. Music Our castaway this week is the artist, writer and cartoonist, Raymond Briggs.
1:08.1	Raymond, how would you view a spell as a Robinson Crusoe?
1:11.5	Oh, I think I'd look forward to it, really.
1:13.6	I'm fed up with all the things we have to deal with every day,
1:16.3	like paperwork and telephones and form filling.
1:19.9	How important is music in your life?
1:22.2	Not very much.
1:23.3	I'm not a great music fan.
1:24.6	I've always found it rather complicated and technical and rather intimidating.
1:30.6	Do you have any skill? Do you play any instrument?
1:33.4	No, nothing at all, never have.
1:35.3	Do you play music while you're working?
1:37.0	No, I listen to Radio 4 more than anything.
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