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Desert Island Discs
Feb. 13th, 2012 05:10 pmWe started our Sunday in a very relaxing way by listening to two Desert Island Discs on-line.
Desert Island Discs started in 1942. Every week one guest (or castaway) is interviewed and chooses 8 pieces of music he/she would like to put on a disc and listen to while stranded on a desert island.
It's quite a lovely programme because not only you listen to a variety of music, but you also discover why it is important to the castaways, and learn more about their lives.
We had missed Armistead Maupin's disc recorded when he was in the UK in 2007, and, at the time, the recording was not available on-line, due to copyright issues.
I don't quite recall what made me look at the BBC's site yesterday but I was delighted to see that now all recordings from 1986 onwards are available! (*) You can even download them for your MP3 player.
We really enjoyed listening to Maupin's selection and hearing him talk about his life.
Then we treated ourselves to the episode featuring the brilliant actress Celia Imrie: I was pleased to see that one of her favourites is one of mine too, which (sorry to be morbid!) I'd like to be played at my funeral (hopefully, many many years from now!).
(*) Sorry but I don't know if they are available from outside the UK.
Desert Island Discs started in 1942. Every week one guest (or castaway) is interviewed and chooses 8 pieces of music he/she would like to put on a disc and listen to while stranded on a desert island.
It's quite a lovely programme because not only you listen to a variety of music, but you also discover why it is important to the castaways, and learn more about their lives.
We had missed Armistead Maupin's disc recorded when he was in the UK in 2007, and, at the time, the recording was not available on-line, due to copyright issues.
I don't quite recall what made me look at the BBC's site yesterday but I was delighted to see that now all recordings from 1986 onwards are available! (*) You can even download them for your MP3 player.
We really enjoyed listening to Maupin's selection and hearing him talk about his life.
Then we treated ourselves to the episode featuring the brilliant actress Celia Imrie: I was pleased to see that one of her favourites is one of mine too, which (sorry to be morbid!) I'd like to be played at my funeral (hopefully, many many years from now!).
(*) Sorry but I don't know if they are available from outside the UK.
