Bing Crosby, David Hockney and Dame Margot Fonteyn are among the interviewees to have been discovered within old Desert Island Disc tapes.
As the interviews predated the BBC recording archives, the recordings had previously been lost, but now an audio collector has found them.
Richard Harrison from Lowestoft in Suffolk discovered the 90 lost tapes, telling the BBC that finding the missing archives was a “great feeling”.
Desert Island Discs is a BBC Radio 4 programme broadcast which is also now released in a podcast format. It has been airing since January 1942 when it was first broadcast on the BBC Forces Programme.
The 90 recordings feature interviews from the 1960s and 1970s and include a host of stars from actor Dirk Bogarde to actor and dancer Sophie Tucker.
Harrison is a member of the Radio Circle, a group who take a keen interest in discovering lost radio. Harrison collects old tapes from car...
As the interviews predated the BBC recording archives, the recordings had previously been lost, but now an audio collector has found them.
Richard Harrison from Lowestoft in Suffolk discovered the 90 lost tapes, telling the BBC that finding the missing archives was a “great feeling”.
Desert Island Discs is a BBC Radio 4 programme broadcast which is also now released in a podcast format. It has been airing since January 1942 when it was first broadcast on the BBC Forces Programme.
The 90 recordings feature interviews from the 1960s and 1970s and include a host of stars from actor Dirk Bogarde to actor and dancer Sophie Tucker.
Harrison is a member of the Radio Circle, a group who take a keen interest in discovering lost radio. Harrison collects old tapes from car...
- 10/13/2022
- by Megan Graye
- The Independent - Music
A 16-minute excerpt of William Hartnell's Desert Island Discs has been found and put online.
The actor played the first incarnation of The Doctor in Doctor Who from 1963 to 1966 and he recorded his spot on what was then Roy Plomley's show on Monday, August 23, 1965.
"This is the only extract the BBC has of this edition of Desert Island Discs and begins with the castaway's first choice of music," notes current Kirsty Young at the start of the recording.
Hartnell's favourite piece of music is 'The Spring Song from A King in New York' by Charlie Chaplin.
His top book is English Social History by G M Trevelyan and his luxury is cigarettes.
During the interview Hartnell talks about preferring horses to the theatre and running away from school at an early age with the hope of becoming a jockey.
The actor played the first incarnation of The Doctor in Doctor Who from 1963 to 1966 and he recorded his spot on what was then Roy Plomley's show on Monday, August 23, 1965.
"This is the only extract the BBC has of this edition of Desert Island Discs and begins with the castaway's first choice of music," notes current Kirsty Young at the start of the recording.
Hartnell's favourite piece of music is 'The Spring Song from A King in New York' by Charlie Chaplin.
His top book is English Social History by G M Trevelyan and his luxury is cigarettes.
During the interview Hartnell talks about preferring horses to the theatre and running away from school at an early age with the hope of becoming a jockey.
- 1/29/2015
- Digital Spy
This time on The Forgotten, we've made the film under discussion available to watch, for free, below.
1948 was one of the great years of British film, with Powell & Pressburger, David Lean and others on top form. Terence Fisher, later to make his name at Hammer (Curse of Frankenstein, Horror of Dracula, etc.) was only just beginning his career, but he began it well: soon he would co-direct the gripping Hitchcockian yarn So Long at the Fair (1950), but before that came 40-minute short subject To the Public Danger, a thriller revolving around drunk driving.
As four characters meet in an English roadhouse and begin the kind of inebriate evening people fresh from WWII seemed to take in their strides, recklessness and arrogance leads towards inevitable doom, with the boozing accompanied by bullying, seduction, class prejudice, cowardice, paranoia and a slew of other unattractive qualities. The result is not so much mounting tension as an oppressive,...
1948 was one of the great years of British film, with Powell & Pressburger, David Lean and others on top form. Terence Fisher, later to make his name at Hammer (Curse of Frankenstein, Horror of Dracula, etc.) was only just beginning his career, but he began it well: soon he would co-direct the gripping Hitchcockian yarn So Long at the Fair (1950), but before that came 40-minute short subject To the Public Danger, a thriller revolving around drunk driving.
As four characters meet in an English roadhouse and begin the kind of inebriate evening people fresh from WWII seemed to take in their strides, recklessness and arrogance leads towards inevitable doom, with the boozing accompanied by bullying, seduction, class prejudice, cowardice, paranoia and a slew of other unattractive qualities. The result is not so much mounting tension as an oppressive,...
- 10/23/2014
- by David Cairns
- MUBI
London — Margaret Thatcher chose Beethoven, Michael Caine picked Frank Sinatra and boxer George Foreman selected The Beatles' "All You Need is Love."
They are among almost 3,000 guests who have appeared on the radio program "Desert Island Discs," a British broadcasting institution that turned 70 on Sunday.
The show's simple format hasn't changed since 1942: Ask an illustrious or famous figure to choose the eight pieces of music they would take with them to a deserted isle, and talk about what the tracks mean to them. At the end of each program, the guest is sent into imaginary exile, along with their choice of a book, a luxury and one of their eight records.
Almost 3 million listeners tune in each week to the show, which has stranded royalty, prime ministers and movie stars, as well as scientists, poets and philosophers.
Its success is a mark of radio's enduring popularity in the age...
They are among almost 3,000 guests who have appeared on the radio program "Desert Island Discs," a British broadcasting institution that turned 70 on Sunday.
The show's simple format hasn't changed since 1942: Ask an illustrious or famous figure to choose the eight pieces of music they would take with them to a deserted isle, and talk about what the tracks mean to them. At the end of each program, the guest is sent into imaginary exile, along with their choice of a book, a luxury and one of their eight records.
Almost 3 million listeners tune in each week to the show, which has stranded royalty, prime ministers and movie stars, as well as scientists, poets and philosophers.
Its success is a mark of radio's enduring popularity in the age...
- 1/30/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
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