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In the UK there is a radio programme that has been running for sixty years known as Desert Island Discs. It is really a chat show, the conceit of which is that the guest is marooned on a desert island after a shipwreck. Guests are invited to imagine themselves cast away on the desert island having been able to save only eight recordings - originally records and a wind up gramophone. (These are usually music but could be the spoken word.) Discussion of their choices leads to a conversation about their life. Excerpts from their choices are played or, in the case of short pieces, the whole work.
At the end of the programme guests choose the one piece they would save if the island's waves threatened to swallow their selected discs. Guests are also assumed to have saved the complete works of Shakespeare and the Bible (or another appropriate religious or philosophical work). They are allowed to select a third book and a luxury item. Guests come from the worlds of stage, screen, sport, science and other areas of public life and have included Princess Margaret, Alfred Hitchcock, John Schlesinger, David Attenborough, Tom Daley, Maggie Smith. Luxury items can have no practical use, nor should they be able to help with an escape from the island. Examples have included inexhaustible supplies of champagne or tea, artist's materials, a piano.
So,
At the end of the programme guests choose the one piece they would save if the island's waves threatened to swallow their selected discs. Guests are also assumed to have saved the complete works of Shakespeare and the Bible (or another appropriate religious or philosophical work). They are allowed to select a third book and a luxury item. Guests come from the worlds of stage, screen, sport, science and other areas of public life and have included Princess Margaret, Alfred Hitchcock, John Schlesinger, David Attenborough, Tom Daley, Maggie Smith. Luxury items can have no practical use, nor should they be able to help with an escape from the island. Examples have included inexhaustible supplies of champagne or tea, artist's materials, a piano.
So,
- How would you fare on the desert island, would you try to escape?
- What would be your one music track? (Or your list of eight.)
- What would be your book? (Fiction/non-fiction, collection/series are allowed if available in one volume.)
- What would be your luxury?