Your Desert Island Discs

Desert Island Discs

BBC

Society & Culture, Music Commentary, Music, Personal Journals

4.4 • 13.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Listeners choose the music that has been special to them during the weeks of lockdown. With Jane Moss, Hugh Mullally, Ailish Douglas, Professor Jason Warren, Niti Acharya, Margery Hookings, Simon Spiller, Clare Raybould and Garry Greenland. DISC ONE: Amazing Grace by Judy Collins DISC TWO: Who Knows Where The Time Goes? by Sandy Denny DISC THREE: The Whole of The Moon by The Waterboys DISC FOUR: Heimweh op. 57 Nr. 6: Homesickness, composed by Edvard Grieg, performed by Emil Gilels DISC FIVE: Ab Saunp Diya by Om Vyas DISC SIX: Prelude and The Sound of Music by Julie Andrews & Orchestra of St. Luke's DISC SEVEN: Over The Rainbow / What A Wonderful World by Israel Kamakawiwo'ole DISC EIGHT: Six Million Steps (West Runs South) by Rahni Harris & F.L.O Presenter: Lauren Laverne Producer: Cathy Drysdale

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:04.8	Hello, I'm Lauren LeVern and this is the Desert Island Disks Podcast.
0:08.5	For right reasons, the music is shorter than the original broadcast.
0:12.8	I hope you enjoy listening.
0:30.0	Welcome to a very special edition of Desert Island Disks.
0:38.6	Now, usually I have just one guest and their choice of eight tracks as they contemplate
0:43.6	life alone on our imaginary island.
0:46.4	Last month, with isolation now a reality for millions of us in our own homes, we invited
0:51.6	you to let us know the music you have turned to during these long weeks of lockdown.
0:57.1	Many, many hundreds of you shared your choices and your stories.
1:00.8	Our inbox was filled daily with messages from hospitals and care homes, from key workers
1:05.7	on the front line and grandparents marooned at home, from the heart of our biggest cities
1:10.5	and from rural communities around the country.
1:13.7	Many of you told us that you now heard the world in a new way, with fewer planes in the
1:18.2	sky and less traffic on the roads, the sounds of nature proliferated, and all of you
1:23.4	told us about the music you have turned to, for comforts, for consolation, to bring you
1:27.8	closer to loved ones, to cheer you up and of course, and importantly, to dance.
1:32.6	And it's these stories and the power of music in our lives at the moment that we will
1:36.7	be hearing about in the next hour.
1:39.3	We'll begin in a London hospital.
1:41.4	Although lockdown restrictions are now easing, when they began on March 23, the message was
1:46.3	stay home, protect the NHS, save lives.
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