Desert Island Discs: Archive 2000-2005

By BBC Radio 4Society & Culture Personal Journals

Favorites
422
Followers
Typical duration
35 min
per episode

Based on Podcast App listening data

Desert Island Discs: Archive 2000-2005 episodes

July 01, 2001 Sir Stanley Kalms
This week Sue Lawley's castaway is the businessman, Sir Stanley Kalms. Over the last fifty years he's turned Dixons, the small photographic studio his father opened in the 1930s, into one of Britain's biggest retail outlets. The group now covers PC World, Currys and The Link. He chooses eight records to take with him to the mythical island.
[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]
Favourite track: Air On A G String by Johann Sebastian Bach
Book: The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
Luxury: Pack of cards
36 min
June 24, 2001 Sir Harry Kroto
Sue Lawley's castaway is chemist Sir Harry Kroto.
Favourite track: 3rd Movement of Symphony No4 in G Major by Gustav Mahler
Book: Quantum Electro Dynamics Physics by Feynman
Luxury: Airbrush computer graphics set
36 min
June 17, 2001 Frank McCourt
Sue Lawley's castaway is Pulitzer prize-winning writer Frank McCourt.
Favourite track: The Kyrie from St Cecilia Mass by Charles Gounod
Book: Oxford Anthology of English Verse
Luxury: A pair of binoculars
36 min
June 10, 2001 Sir Kyffin Williams
This week Sue Lawley's castaway is the Welsh painter, Sir Kyffin Williams. It was only when he was invalided out of the army because of his epilepsy that Kyffin decided to paint. "You are not normal. You should do art" was one doctor's verdict. Since then, no artist has done more to portray the brooding, mountainous landscape of North Wales.
He chooses eight records to take with him to the mythical island.
[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]
Favourite track: Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring by Johann Sebastian Bach
Book: Germinal by Emile Zola
Luxury: A small painting called the Head of a Girl by Michael Schwerz
37 min
June 03, 2001 Sir Thomas Allen
Sue Lawley's castaway is opera singer Sir Thomas Allen.
Favourite track: Act 3 of Meistersinger von Nurnberg by Richard Wagner
Book: Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy
Luxury: Unlimited supply of paper, paints, pencils
38 min
May 27, 2001 Courtney Pine
Sue Lawley's castaway is jazz saxophonist Courtney Pine.
Favourite track: Guiltiness by Bob Marley and the Whalers
Book: Beneath the Underdog by Charles Mingus
Luxury: 1939 edition tenor saxophone
35 min
May 20, 2001 Sir Timothy Clifford
Sue Lawley's castaway is National Galleries of Scotland Director Sir Timothy Clifford.
Favourite track: La Ci Darem La Mano in Act 1 of Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: A La Recherche du Temps Perdu by Marcel Proust
Luxury: Renaissance casket with a selection of 15th & 16th century Italian drawings in it
37 min
May 13, 2001 Sir John Sulston
Sue Lawley's castaway is biologist Sir John Sulston.
Favourite track: String Quartet in B flat major by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: Oxford Anthology of English Verse
Luxury: The microscope used to examine the lineage of the roundworm
36 min
May 06, 2001 Margaret Drabble
Sue Lawley's castaway is writer Margaret Drabble.
Favourite track: I Know That My Redeemer Liveth - (from Messiah) by George Frideric Handel
Book: Old Wives Tale by Arnold Bennett
Luxury: Painting by Maurice Cockerill - Ariadne's Thread
36 min
April 29, 2001 Tasmin Little
Sue Lawley's castaway is violinist Tasmin Little.
Favourite track: Daphnis & Chloe by Maurice Ravel
Book: Harry Potter book by J K Rowling or Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
Luxury: Endless supply of coffee
37 min