Wilfred Thesiger

Desert Island Discs

BBC

Society & Culture, Music Commentary, Music, Personal Journals

4.4 • 13.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 1979

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Roy Plomley's castaway is explorer Wilfred Thesiger.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Kirstie Young, and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs archive.
0:06.3	For Wright's reasons, we've had to shorten the music.
0:09.3	The program was originally broadcast in 1979, and the presenter was Roy Plumlee. Our cast away this week is probably the last in the great tradition of the
0:35.9	individual explorer Wilfred Cessiger.
0:38.8	Mr. Cessager, how much does music mean in your life?
0:42.0	Well I'm afraid you have picked somebody who has no musical sense at all.
0:48.0	None?
0:49.0	Virtually none.
0:50.0	Do you not sing to cheer yourself when you're traveling on a long long empty desert?
0:55.2	I'd never inflict that on my companions.
0:57.6	Do you own a record player?
1:00.1	No, I've never owned a wireless set or record player.
1:03.0	Well, you're going to get a record player with the compliments of the BBC.
1:07.0	You'll find it on the island.
1:08.0	But you have to choose the eight records.
1:11.0	What's the first?
1:12.0	It's going to be rather an odd selection I think. The first one is
1:17.7	fores requiem and the solo pea jezi.
1:23.0	Why do you choose this?
1:24.0	Well, I heard it for the first time when I was in Nairobi the other day.
1:29.0	And it struck me as being incredibly beautiful. Pee is on. Gies a Dana'A. Hali is leery.
2:07.0	The glee.
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