Desert island discs

[Sea Star]

The Fall have been chosen three times, none of which me The Classical. No one has ever chosen any Julian Cope tho, the fools.

If I get on I'll choose "World Shut Your Mouth". It's been a bit of a perosnal anthem for me

 

[Shirl]

Lemm Sissay was the best I've heard in ages. I liked him and enjoyed his record choices

 

[5t3IIa]

It was interesting that the richest man in the world, who, despite giving up paid work still earns more per minute than me in a lifetime, agreed to give up time to appear. And, it was someone who did not need the publicity, had nothing to promote etc.

He did not sound as though he was in the same room, I did think while I was listening. Maybe he phoned it in>?

 

[hash tag]

Wherever he was, he still have up some time.

 

[5t3IIa]

Wherever he was, he still have up some time.

Oh, I wasn't disputing that. Just a comment on the sound quality.

 

[hash tag]

Fair comment

 

[belboid]

Lemm Sissay was the best I've heard in ages. I liked him and enjoyed his record choices

ooh, I'll have to look that one out

 

[Shirl]

ooh, I'll have to look that one out

Around last July I think

 

[belboid]

October 16th, it appears

 

[Shirl]

October 16th, it appears

Last year obviously flew by

 

[killer b]

I heard lemm sissay! He was great. Dont remember the music, but the interview was compelling listening.

 

[Shirl]

I heard lemm sissay! He was great. Dont remember the music, but the interview was compelling listening.

Yes, it was mainly him that did it for me but there was a track I'd never heard before that I loved. (I need to look up the note that I stopped the car to write) and some other good tracks too.

eta. My note says Goreki, Sorrowful Songs. I meant to buy it and listen to all of it, now I will

 

[belboid]

That was a great 42 minutes. He was funny, interested, and had thought about what he wanted to say. And Kirsty was on form, clearly genuinely engaged and prodding pointfully.

I think that a writer choosing a pen and paper as their luxury is cheating tho

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

eta. My note says Goreki, Sorrowful Songs. I meant to buy it and listen to all of it, now I will

You want to get the Dawn Upshaw version if you can

Gorecki:Symphony No.3: Amazon.co.uk: Music

 

[Shirl]

You want to get the Dawn Upshaw version if you can

Gorecki:Symphony No.3: Amazon.co.uk: Music

I'll check it out, why do you recommend this version?

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

I'll check it out, why do you recommend this version?

Because it's wonderful.

I've heard a couple of other versions, with actual Polish-speaking sopranos even, but Upshaw's performance is breathtaking, imo. Mind, I've never heard a bad recording. It's a very powerful piece, made more so by reading the liner notes.

 

[Shirl]

Because it's wonderful.

I've heard a couple of other versions, with actual Polish-speaking sopranos even, but Upshaw's performance is breathtaking, imo. Mind, I've never heard a bad recording. It's a very powerful piece, made more so by reading the liner notes.

Thanks

 

[hash tag]

One thing clear from listening to Kylie's - somethings happened and she's head over heels.

She sounded very happy

I see she has announced her engagement today, bless. I hope she has at last found love and happiness.

 

[hash tag]

John Timpson; what a good chap, his wife must have been brilliant also. I wonder how many other castaways picked the same records as him? John Timpson, Desert Island Discs - BBC Radio 4

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

Tom Hanks was on last week. It's good. Tom Hanks, Desert Island Discs - BBC Radio 4

 

[lefteri]

Tom Hanks was on last week. It's good. Tom Hanks, Desert Island Discs - BBC Radio 4

He's so hyper!

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

He's so hyper!

I think this is the most restrained I've ever heard him (not actually very restrained compared to most people, right enough).

 

[xenon]

Its a fucking awful program. As is that Saturday morning thing. Which is unbearably twee and comfortably smug.

It might just be me. I'm finding as I get older, I find Radio 4 increasingly disagreeable

 

[5t3IIa]

I'm up too early and listening to Farming Today. They are having a brexit/in debate

 

[lefteri]

I think this is the most restrained I've ever heard him (not actually very restrained compared to most people, right enough).

the bit about wanting to get laid was the apex and funny, I don't think I've heard another guest talk about that kind of thing and it cut through the pseudo-polite britishness of the format nicely

 

[little_legs]

Its a fucking awful program. As is that Saturday morning thing. Which is unbearably twee and comfortably smug.

It might just be me. I'm finding as I get older, I find Radio 4 increasingly disagreeable

I love xenon, me. Ringo would be my first husband, then I would marry xenon.

 

[xenon]

 

[D'wards]

I found this weeks subject, Inga Beale, pretty irritating really. Had a condescending way of talking

 

[hash tag]

She is head of Lloyd's I believe, what would you expect?

 

[ringo]

I love xenon, me. Ringo would be my first husband, then I would marry xenon.