Susannah York

Desert Island Discs

BBC

Society & Culture, Music Commentary, Music, Personal Journals

4.4 • 13.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 1980

⏱️ 25 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Susannah York.

Favourite track: Concerto in D Minor For Violin, Oboe and String Orchestra by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: Italian Touring Atlas of the World Luxury: Pencils and paper

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hello I'm Kristi 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 British
0:12.4	Library's radio collection. It was
0:14.8	archived without the music so although the Castaways choices are introduced
0:19.5	they're not part of this recording. Full details can be found on the Castaways page on the Desert Island Discs website.
0:27.0	The program was originally broadcast in 1980, and the presenter was Roy Plumley.
0:37.0	On I Desert Item this week is the actress Susanna York. Susanna, could you put up with your own company for a long, long time?
0:41.0	Well, I'm a great make-doer and I think I quite enjoyed actually.
0:46.6	I'd be busy trying to think about how I could get off and I'd be busy looking at my books and
0:50.5	reading my records I think and perhaps trying to connect with other people on other desert islands.
0:56.6	How important in your life is music?
0:58.6	Oh, it's very important.
1:00.3	I like it around me.
1:01.3	I like to be able to have easy access to it. I like it around me I like to be able to have easy access to it I like variety yes music
1:06.3	important to me do you have any musical skill yourself none at all do you sing
1:10.6	barely I mean loudly but barely.
1:14.0	Did you have any plan for choosing your records?
1:17.0	Well, I wanted a variety.
1:21.0	I wanted something I could sing to, something I could sing to something I could dance to something I could
1:26.2	listen to.
1:27.2	What's the first one?
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BBC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of BBC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.