Quarantine Island Discs

Quarantine Island Discs

By Laurence PetersEducationSelf-Improvement
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Quarantine Island Discs episodes

  • Ralph McTell's Media Choices

    Ralph's choices

    Movies

    Anything with Peter Sellers

    Laurel and Hardy

    Radio

    The Goon Show

    Music

    Singer Songwriters: Randy Newman, Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan

    Guitarists

    Rev Gary Davis, Blind Bob Fuller, Blind Willie McTell, Jango Reinhardt 

    Books/Biographies

    Oscar Wilde Richard Ellmann

    Is That It? Bob Geldorf's  autobiography

    Ariel, Sylvia Plath

    Steinbeck, Grapes of Wrath, Tortilla Flats, Mice and Men





    32 min
  • First Quarantine Island Discs with Recording Artist, Author and Activist Robin Renee

    Robin  Renée claims personal favorites and influences from acts as disparate  as Elvis Costello, Jai Uttal, James Taylor, Gary Wilson, and Devo. In  the biracial, multicultural family in which she grew up, the blended  experience extended easily to music. She was just as likely to take a  ride on Gladys Knight's "Midnight Train to Georgia" as to drive along  Kraftwerk's "Autobahn," and the easy-going sounds of "You've Got a  Friend" were as common as Dylan's acerbic "Masters of War."


    Her choices for Quarantine Island Discs are:

    Music

    David Newman's Leap of Grace See the YouTube video for a sample of this beautiful music

    Poem

    A Concert of Lions by Robin Renne

    Films

    The Room and The Disaster Artist 

    Documentary, Won't You Be My Neighbor?   

    TV

    Ozzy and Drix

    Novels

    For Hire& Audition, Kevin Patterson and Alana Phelan  

    Podcast                  

    What a Day                                                   




    25 min

About Quarantine Island Discs

From the publisher's feed

Celebrities select their six favorite media selections (a movie, song, a book, poem, TV show, podcast) to get them through the pandemic and whatever else is to come.