Ron Goodwin
Desert Island Discs
BBC
4.3 • 14.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 1984
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Ron Goodwin has composed the scores for many films, including Where Eagles Dare, 633 Squadron and Monte Carlo or Bust, but he started his career in an insurance office. In conversation with Roy Plomley, he describes how his apprenticeship with a music publisher enabled him to become a composer and later a conductor, and he chooses the eight records he would take to the mythical island.
[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]
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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 Wright's reasons, we've had to shorten the music. |
| 0:08.0 | The program was originally broadcast in 1984 and the presenter was Roy Plumlee. Our castaway this week is a musician, he's a specialist in light music and in film music, |
| 0:35.1 | composer, arranger and conductor Ron Goodwin. Ron, could you endure loneliness do you |
| 0:41.6 | think? I think so Roy. I really do have a strong belief in a higher power. |
| 0:48.0 | The creative force of the universe if you like to put it that way. |
| 0:52.0 | And I do feel that I'm not alone most of the |
| 0:55.6 | time and that whatever I'm doing is what I'm supposed to be doing so I would feel that if I was |
| 1:01.3 | on this desert island it must be what I'm supposed to be |
| 1:04.4 | doing at the time and I'd have to make the most of it really. |
| 1:07.6 | You do have this very limited ration of music, just eight discs. |
| 1:11.4 | Did you have any plan in choosing them? |
| 1:13.0 | Yes, I thought I'd choose things that would give me some kind of personal memory or a bit of a laugh or something like that. |
| 1:20.0 | Well, let's have the first one. What's that? |
| 1:22.0 | Well, I'm terribly |
| 1:23.8 | fond of my dogs we've got three of them and my own personal dog is a thoroughbred |
| 1:29.2 | mongrel directly send them from Battersea dogs home And since I understand that I can't take a dog with me, |
| 1:36.0 | no. Well, I'd like to have the record of the singing dogs |
| 1:39.0 | just to remind me of the dogs at home. |
| 1:41.0 | And what would you like them to sing? Well what would be better than |
| 1:44.2 | paticake, paticake. Oh, uh, huck, huck, ha, ha, ha, |
| 1:54.0 | but, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, |
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