Desert Island Discs

Alle afleveringen

2.000 afleveringen, van nieuw naar oud

1. Professor Géza Vermes

   4 juni 2000 · 39 min

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   Sue Lawley's castaway this week is Professor Geza Vermes . When he wrote Jesus the Jew in the early 1970s, it shocked the Christian world. He continued to examine Jesus through three more books, drawing on his lifetime's study of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Born in Hungary in the 1920s, his Jewish parents had converted to Catholicism, but it did not save them from the Nazis. He was ordained a Catholic priest, but returned his Jewish roots and his study of the religion and culture of first-century Palestine. Lees meer

   [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

   Favourite track: Now from the Sixth Hour by Johann Sebastian Bach
   Book: The Complete Works by Flavius Josephus
   Luxury: Comfortable armchair/desk

2. John Bird

   28 mei 2000 · 38 min

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   Sue Lawley's castaway this week is John Bird. As a student, he changed the face of the Cambridge Footlights review by rejecting jokes on bed-makers and punting and writing a political review instead. In the early 1960s he helped found The Establishment Club with Peter Cook. Writing sketches with John Fortune, they found they were unable to find suitable actors to perform their work, and so took to the stage themselves. Satire, he says, died in the late 1960s and he struggled to make a living, until Rory Bremner hired them. As 'The Two Johns', their dialogues featuring an awkward interviewer and slippery politician have won them much recognition and a BAFTA award. Lees meer

   [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

   Favourite track: Repons by Pierre Boulez
   Book: The collected works by Wallace Stevens
   Luxury: 2,000 soft loo rolls

3. Dame Norma Major

   21 mei 2000 · 35 min

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   Sue Lawley's castaway this week is Dame Norma Major. In her book on the Prime Minister's residence, Chequers, she revealed how Neville Chamberlain would spend time measuring the girths of his favourite trees, and how Ramsay MacDonald chopped wood every morning dressed in plus-fours. She herself was uncomfortable there, and she remembers the loneliness and stress of being the country's First Lady. She says her love of music, and her work for charity helped her through the tough times. Lees meer

   [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

   Favourite track: Norma by Bellini
   Book: Nine Tailors by Dorothy L Sayers
   Luxury: Solar laptop

4. Kathleen Turner

   14 mei 2000 · 33 min

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   Sue Lawley's castaway this week is Kathleen Turner. A versatile actress, she's been the femme fatal in films like Body Heat, parodied that role in comedies like Serial Mom, and played the romantic adventurer in Romancing the Stone. But, she says, ''I never play the victim, because I'm not attracted to a woman who doesn't try''. It's an attitude which must have helped her when she developed rheumatoid arthritis which left her severely bloated and in pain. Presently wowing audiences as Mrs Robinson in London's West End production of The Graduate, she chooses eight records to take to the mythical island. Lees meer

   [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

   Favourite track: Piano Concerto No 1 in B flat minor by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
   Book: Emma by Jane Austen
   Luxury: Roses

5. Sir John Mills

   7 mei 2000 · 34 min

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   Sue Lawley's castaway this week is Sir John Mills. He was only six when he decided he wanted to be an actor. And now after seventy years in show business he is still touring the world with his one man show. It was the war which made him a star and the films he made then eventually led to Hollywood. There he made friends with Laurence Olivier, Rex Harrison and Noel Coward, to whom he says he owes a great debt. Lees meer

   He won an Oscar for his performance in Ryan's Daughter, but one of his favourite films remains Ice Cold in Alex. In it, he got to kiss Sylvia Sims, a scene which was later cut by the censor for showing too much of her cleavage and which had to be reshot with only three buttons undone instead of four.

   [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

   Favourite track: All the Things You Are by Chick Henderson
   Book: The Warden by Anthony Trollope
   Luxury: His piano

6. Sir Peter Bonfield

   30 april 2000 · 34 min

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   Sue Lawley's castaway this week is Sir Peter Bonfield. The chief executive of British Telecommunications, it is said that when he left his previous company, its Japanese owner presented him with a samurai sword and helmet to remind him of the warrior qualities he would need at BT. And certainly the challenges facing him in this fast moving industry have tested all his discipline and determination - qualities he says he learnt as a boy at the local convent school. Lees meer

   [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

   Favourite track: American Pie by Don McLean
   Book: A book on celestial navigation
   Luxury: A windsurfer

7. Leonard Slatkin

   23 april 2000 · 38 min

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   This week the castaway on Desert Island Discs is the conductor Leonard Slatkin. An American, he is about to take on the mantle of chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Lees meer

   Renouned for his championing of both the American and British cannons, his aim has always been to demystify music of all kinds. He has spun discs on a pirate radio station and played honky tonk piano in a jazz bar. His parents' Hollywood String Quartet was the best known band in town and the Slatkin household was often filled with film stars. From these two influences he developed his love of chamber music and a passion for Doris Day. In conversation with Sue Lawley, he talks about his life and work and chooses eight records to take to the mythical island.

   [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

   Favourite track: Danny Boy by Percy Grainger
   Book: Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
   Luxury: Wine

8. Sir Anthony Caro

   16 april 2000 · 35 min

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   Sue Lawley's castaway this week is Sir Anthony Caro. Universally regarded as the 'grand old man of British sculpture', in the 1950s he had learnt from his mentor Henry Moore that artistic rules were there to be broken. So he yanked sculpture off it's pedestal and set it on the floor. And he rejected the traditional materials of bronze, marble and wood for girders, nuts and bolts. In fact as he confesses to Sue Lawley, nothing is safe from his magpie eye: parts of ships, cars, even kitchen equipment have all been incorporated into his work. Lees meer

   [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

   Favourite track: String Quartet in C by Franz Schubert
   Book: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
   Luxury: Glue

9. Claire Tomalin

   9 april 2000 · 38 min

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   Sue Lawley's castaway this week is Claire Tomalin. A writer and literary editor, she is probably best known for a series of acclaimed biographies of women, including Mary Wollstonecraft, and Jane Austin. She began working in the literary world late in life, after bringing up her family. This, and a series of personal tragedies, including the death of her husband and two of her children, has no doubt made her particularly sympathetic to the lives of literary women in the 19th century. Lees meer

   [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

   Favourite track: Sull'aria. Che Soave Zeffietto (Act 3) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
   Book: Complete diaries by Samuel Pepys
   Luxury: A garden

10. Harold Evans

    2 april 2000 · 38 min

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    Sue Lawley's guest this week is Harold Evans. One of the great campaigning journalists of all time, as editor of The Northern Echo in the 1960s he argued the the case for cervical smear tests for women. At The Sunday Times, he highlighted the problems of the Thalidomide children. When Rupert Murdoch bought The Times he was given the job of editor and then sacked. After writing a book which decribed how a newspaper changes when the owner becomes editorially involved, he left for America where he lives a life of apparent glamour, with his wife, magazine editor Tina Brown. Lees meer

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: Mache Dich Mein Herze Rein by Johann Sebastian Bach
    Book: History of the American Civil War by Shelby Foote
    Luxury: Silk pyjamas

11. Adrian Noble

    26 maart 2000 · 37 min

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    This week the castaway on Desert Island Discs is Adrian Noble. Now the Artistic Director of The Royal Shakespeare Company, he says he learnt a lot about theatre from watching his father, an undertaker, conduct funeral services. He fell in love with the stage when, as a boy, he saw Laurence Olivier play Othello. A stage play, he says, whether Shakespeare or Chekhov, should not simply be good entertainment, but make people ponder on life itself. In conversation with Sue Lawley, he talks about his life and work and chooses eight records to take to the mythical island. Lees meer

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: Mir Ist So Wunderbar by Ludwig van Beethoven
    Book: The Art of Memory by Frances A Yates
    Luxury: Wine

12. Al Alvarez

    19 maart 2000 · 37 min

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    Sue Lawley's guest this week is Al Alvarez. In the late 1950s, as the influential poetry critic of the Observer, he favoured a style of writing which reflected the disarray of the times, in the aftermath of the Second World War and the shadow of the nuclear bomb. He befriended and championed poets such as Robert Lowell, Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath. Later he wrote The Savage God, a study of suicide in which he recalled her death and described his own attempt. Lees meer

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: Quartet No. 132 by Ludwig van Beethoven
    Book: Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
    Luxury: Laptop computer with poker game software

13. Colin Montgomerie

    12 maart 2000 · 35 min

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    Sue Lawley's guest this week is Colin Montgomerie. Lees meer

    One of the biggest earners in the history of golf, he's ranked number three in the world. Despite having a natural talent for the game, he'd never expected to play it professionally. Having applied for a job with a sports management company, his interview took place on the golf course. He played so well that the company persuaded him to become one of their stars.

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: Sailing by Rod Stewart
    Book: Any book by Michael Crichton

14. Robert McCrum

    5 maart 2000 · 37 min

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    Sue Lawley's guest this week is Robert McCrum. The author of six highly acclaimed novels and literary editor of the Observer, he describes how he woke up one morning, at the age of 42, to a raging headache and partial paralysis. He had suffered a stroke and it was to take him more than a year to recover. Later, he was to write a memoir about that process which became not only a guide to other sufferers, but also a love story dedicated to his wife. Lees meer

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: Prelude - Cello Suite No 3 by Johann Sebastian Bach
    Book: Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome
    Luxury: St John's Wort

15. Sheila Hancock

    27 februari 2000 · 37 min

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    Sue Lawley's guest this week is Sheila Hancock. She first became a household name in the 1960s in the BBC sitcom The Rag Trade. Since then she has starred in everything from Carry On films to Chekhov. One of our most versatile actresses, she's been a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, sung in West End musicals and directed at the National. Twelve years ago she developed cancer, an experience which naturally made her re-assess her life. Today, she says, she's calmer, more secure and more able to cherish herself. Lees meer

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: String Quartet No.8 - Opening by Dmitri Shostakovich
    Book: A title by Marcel Proust
    Luxury: Grand piano (and music scores)

16. Michael Holroyd

    20 februari 2000 · 38 min

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    Sue Lawley's guest this week is Michael Holroyd. A respected biographer, as a boy, he sought refuge from an unhappy home in Maidenhead Public Library. It was there he discovered the work of Hugh Kingsmill who was to become his first biographical subject. And it was then that he "discovered the attraction," as he says, "of stepping from my own life into other people's". Since then he has devoted seven years to writing the life of Augustus John, and 17 to the biography of George Bernard Shaw. Lees meer

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: Last movement of String Quartet - No16 in F Opus 135 by Ludwig van Beethoven
    Book: The High Hill of the Muses - Anthology by Hugh Kingsmill
    Luxury: Waterbed

17. Professor Stuart Hall

    13 februari 2000 · 37 min

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    This week the castaway on Desert Island Discs is Professor Stuart Hall. Nearly 10 years after he came to England from Jamaica in 1951, he helped found the first Centre of Cultural Studies in Birmingham, with the academic Richard Hoggart. It was, he says, a reaction to how fast Britain was changing after the war, including the break up of the class structure and the growing impact of TV and the mass media. Now retired, he's still concerned by the question of British identity. In conversation with Sue Lawley, he talks about his life and work and chooses eight records to take to the mythical island. Lees meer

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: I Waited For You by Gil Fuller
    Book: Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
    Luxury: Piano

18. Simon Callow

    6 februari 2000 · 38 min

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    Sue Lawley's guest this week is Simon Callow. He impressed the theatre world when he played Mozart in Amadeus, and won our hearts as the genial Scot, Gareth, in Four Weddings and a Funeral. Like many actors, he learned his trade in rep. It's a good place to make mistakes, he says, recalling how he fell twenty foot through a trap door during 'A Christmas Carol'. Lees meer

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: String Quintet in C Major - Adagio by Franz Schubert
    Book: Dictionary
    Luxury: Nose hair trimmer

19. Peter Melchett

    30 januari 2000 · 34 min

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    Sue Lawley's guest this week is Peter Melchett. The executive director of Greenpeace, he has recently hit the headlines for his active opposition to genetically modified crops. Once a pillar of the establishment, Lord Melchett was a rising politician in Jim Callaghan's Labour government before he became interested in green issues. He did though shock his colleagues in the Northern Ireland office, when he admitted listening to the pop group The Boomtown Rats. Lees meer

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: Special Live Recording of 'PEACE' by Eurythmics
    Book: Field guide to his imaginary Island
    Luxury: Snorkel and mask

20. Neil Jordan

    23 januari 2000 · 36 min

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    Sue Lawley's guest this week is Neil Jordan. As a child he would cycle past Bram Stoker's house on his way to school, one of the reasons, perhaps, that he went on to direct the film Interview with a Vampire. His other movies include Mona Lisa and The Butcher Boy; the story of a little Irish lad who talks to the Virgin Mary which has echoes in his own Irish Catholic childhood. Lees meer

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: Round Midnight by Thelonious Monk
    Book: A la Recherche du Temps Perdu by Marcel Proust
    Luxury: Typewriter

21. Ian McEwan

    16 januari 2000 · 38 min

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    This week the castaway on Desert Island Discs is Ian McEwan. Lees meer

    A Booker Prize winner, he was once dubbed 'Ian Macabre' because of the dark nature of his stories. His first novel The Cement Garden told a horrifying tale of family life. Later, The Comfort of Strangers described how a chance encounter can end in murder. He does though admit to his writing becoming gentler in recent years. In conversation with Sue Lawley, he talks about his life and work and chooses eight records to take to the mythical island.

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: Aria from Goldberg Variations by Johann Sebastian Bach
    Book: Ulysses by James Joyce
    Luxury: Italian leather hand-stitched hiking boots

22. Dr Jane Goodall

    9 januari 2000 · 37 min

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    Sue Lawley's guest this week is Dr. Jane Goodall. She had no formal scientific qualifications when she first went to Africa to study the Gombe chimpanzees. But it was this lack of preconceptions which made her so successful as a naturalist. Watching chimps use sticks to extract termites from their mounds she realised that she was about to smash the assumption that only humans used tools. Now, forty years after she first stepped into the bush, she describes how she has halted her patient study of the chimpanzees to fight for their survival. Lees meer

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: Under the Milk Wood by Richard Burton
    Book: The Lord of the Rings by J R R Tolkien
    Luxury: Pencil and paper

23. Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber

    31 december 1999 · 36 min

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    Sue Lawley's guest this week is Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber. His musicals dominate London's West End, including Cats, Phantom of the Opera and Starlight Express. He traces a career which began more than 30 years ago when he teamed up with Tim Rice to write Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Lees meer

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: Some Enchanted Evening by Rossano Brazzi
    Book: England's Thousand Best Churches by Simon Jenkins
    Luxury: Herb garden

24. Michael Crawford

    24 december 1999 · 37 min

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    Sue Lawley's guest this week is Michael Crawford. Renowned for his attention to detail, he has always performed his own stunts - whether roller-skating under moving lorries in Some Mothers Do Have 'Em, or walking the tightrope in the musical Barnum. A consumate professional, he admits to escaping from his hospital bed, where he was recovering from exhaustion, so the show could go on! Lees meer

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: Gloria from Mass in B Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach
    Book: The complete book of self-sufficiency by John Seymour
    Luxury: Pen and paper

25. Michael Nyman

    19 december 1999 · 38 min

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    Sue Lawley's guest this week is Michael Nyman. Said to be the best-selling classical composer in Britain, as a child visiting the opera or concert hall his imagination would be caught by a particularly pleasing sequence of notes. Later, he was to use these as inspiration for his own compositions. A Purcell manuscript inspired his music for the The Draughtsman's Contract. Scottish folk songs the soundtrack to The Piano. Lees meer

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: Farewell (Das Lied von der Erde (the song of the Earth)) by Gustav Mahler
    Book: Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
    Luxury: A toilet

26. Oz Clarke

    12 december 1999 · 36 min

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    Sue Lawley's guest this week is Oz Clarke. As a wine expert, he has sipped, slurped and spat his way through thousands of vintages from around the world. Renowned for his enthusiasm for trying new flavours and varieties, his earliest memory is of drinking his mother's damson wine when he was just three years old. And it didn't put him off. Lees meer

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: Thanks for the Memory by The Mitford Girls Original London Stage Cast
    Book: French Provincial Cookery by Elizabeth David
    Luxury: His memory

27. Sir Richard Sykes

    5 december 1999 · 39 min

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    Sue Lawley's guest this week is Sir Richard Sykes. The chairman of Glaxo Welcome, as a boy he was not a natural scholar, until he went to work at the pathology laboratory of his local hospital. Understanding the application of science led him to become a research scientist at Glaxo Welcome. He describes how later the Board Room lured him away from the lab, and how he came to mastermind one of the most audacious take-overs in the city. Lees meer

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: Second Movement from Cello Concerto in B Minor by Antonin Dvořák
    Book: The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
    Luxury: Telescope

28. Warren Mitchell

    28 november 1999 · 37 min

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    Sue Lawley's guest this week is Warren Mitchell. Arthur Miller praised his portrayal of Willie Loman in Death of a Salesman. His King Lear and Shylock won critical acclaim. But he will always be remembered for Alf Garnett, the bigoted, bully from Till Death Us Do Part. He chooses eight records to take to the mythical island. Lees meer

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: Marie Theres I Made A Vow from Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss
    Book: Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brien
    Luxury: Organ (from the Royal Albert Hall)

29. Clarissa Dickson Wright

    21 november 1999 · 35 min

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    Sue Lawley's guest this week is Clarissa Dickson Wright. Lees meer

    Born into a home where caviar was more common than fish paste, she has always been surrounded by fine food. Yet she came to cooking as a profession late in life, having first practised as a barrister. Finding success on television, she has recently had to come to terms with the death of her co host Jennifer Paterson and being just One Fat Lady.

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: Rasputin by Boney M
    Book: Complete Works by Saki
    Luxury: Wind-up radio

30. William Gibson

    19 november 1999 · 35 min

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    This week the castaway on Desert Island Discs is William Gibson. Long before the existence of the Internet, he wrote about 'cyberspace', a boundless world reached only through computers. External space travel, to the Moon and Mars, had become old hat. By creating internal space, he breathed new life into science fiction. In conversation with Sue Lawley, he talks about his life and work and chooses eight records to take to the mythical island. Lees meer

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: (Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For? by Nick Cave
    Book: Complete Works by Jorge Luis Borges
    Luxury: Junk yard

31. Willard White

    7 november 1999 · 37 min

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    Sue Lawley's guest this week is Willard White. Lees meer

    Teased as a child for his deep bass voice, it has made him one of the most popular opera stars today. Happy to sing Wagner or Gershwin, he's renowned for his ability to get under the skin of his roles, and audiences still remember how, as Porgy, he wept real tears at the loss of Bess.

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: Piano Concerto No 21 in C Major- Andante by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Book: The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale
    Luxury: Seeds

32. Ralph Fiennes

    31 oktober 1999 · 36 min

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    Sue Lawley's guest this week is Ralph Fiennes. His first Hollywood film role was as the Nazi concentration camp leader in Schindler's List, a part which, he says, had a profoundly disturbing effect on him. His latest project, playing the jaded hero Onegin, is the culmination of a long held desire to bring Pushkin's novel to the big screen. Lees meer

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: Mir Ist So Wunderbar by Ludwig van Beethoven
    Book: A la Recherche du Temps Perdu by Marcel Proust
    Luxury: Pen and limited supplies of ink and paper

33. Rita Dove

    22 augustus 1999 · 36 min

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    Sue Lawley's guest this week is the poet Rita Dove. The first African-American to become the US Poet Laureate, Rita Dove was brought up to believe that education was the key to the Great American Dream. As a child she would lose herself in the local library, but she learned the art of story-telling from her aunts as they swapped tales about the Great Depression, civil rights, and, of course, motherhood. Lees meer

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: Koln Concert by Keith Jarrett
    Book: 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    Luxury: Ballroom and robotic dance instructor

34. Sir Roger Norrington

    15 augustus 1999 · 38 min

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    Sue Lawley's guest this week is the conductor Sir Roger Norrington. Known for conducting music at a cracking pace, he argues that it's the way the great composers would have played it. Music should be fun, he says, it should entertain - and never, ever, be pompous. He chooses eight records to take to the mythical island. Lees meer

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: Brandenburg Concerto No.6 by Johann Sebastian Bach
    Book: Complete Works by Thomas Hardy
    Luxury: Chocolate

35. Patricia Routledge

    8 augustus 1999 · 39 min

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    Sue Lawley's castaway is the actress Patricia Routledge. Lees meer

    Once voted the nation's favourite actress for her television roles as Hyacinth Bucket and Hetty Wainthrop, she has also been successful in the theatre, in musicals, and of course in Alan Bennett's monologues Talking Heads. In conversation with Sue Lawley, she talks about her life and work and chooses eight records to take to the mythical island.

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: String Quintet in C Major - Adagio by Franz Schubert
    Book: The collected works by John Donne
    Luxury: Tea service with tea

36. Rick Stein

    1 augustus 1999 · 36 min

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    The castaway on this week's Desert Island Discs is Rick Stein. Lees meer

    When the police closed his discotheque down because of too many fights on a Saturday night, all he had left was his restaurant licence. Living by the sea, he took the obvious option and opened a fish restaurant. Today he is Britain's best sea food chef and a passionate advocate for the pleasures of cooking and eating fish. In conversation with Sue Lawley, he talks about his life and work and chooses eight records to take to the mythical island.

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: Concerto for Flute, Harp & Orchestra in C Major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Book: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
    Luxury: Thai fish sauce

37. Rod Steiger

    25 juli 1999 · 35 min

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    Sue Lawley's guest this week is Rod Steiger. He talks about The Method, Marlon Brando and the depression which dogged him for nearly a decade. And he confesses why he couldn't go to the desert island without Frank Sinatra. Lees meer

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: Send in the Clowns by Sarah Vaughn
    Book: Complete book of poetry by e e cummings
    Luxury: Self-contained external electric fan

38. Martin Pipe

    18 juli 1999 · 35 min

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    Sue Lawley's guest this week is Martin Pipe. He has turned horse training into a science. His animals have the choice of a swimming pool, indoor canter and walking machine, while the on-site laboratory monitors their temperature, blood and weight throughout the day. Yet he retains his love for the horses themselves - a passion which has made him one of the most successful trainers in Britain. Lees meer

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: Oh Carol by Neil Sedaka
    Book: Horse Management by R S Timmis
    Luxury: Winning post from Cheltenham race course

39. Paddy Moloney

    11 juli 1999 · 35 min

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    Sue Lawley's guest this week is Paddy Moloney. As the founder of the Chieftains he has taken Irish folk music around the world. No purist, some of his most popular pieces are influenced by other countries folk songs, most notably China, Spain and South America. He's collaborated with popular musicians too, sharing a stage with Mick Jagger, Elvis Costello and The Corrs. Lees meer

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: Coast of Malabar by The Chieftains with Ry Cooder
    Book: The Book of Lempster (old Irish textbook currently in the Hague)
    Luxury: Tin whistle

40. Igor Aleksander

    4 juli 1999 · 38 min

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    Sue Lawley's guest this week is Profesor Igor Aleksander. He has been researching artificial conciousness for over 30 years. His first machine, Wisard, could recognise faces. His latest, Magnus, can think. He predicts that soon our computors will be so intelligent we won't be able to switch them off at the end of the day without feeling guilty. Lees meer

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: Agnus Dei from Requiem by Giuseppe Verdi
    Book: Companions to the Mind by Richard Gregory
    Luxury: A virtual reality London Symphony Orchestra so he can conduct it

41. Rt Hon Ann Widdecombe MP

    27 juni 1999 · 38 min

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    Sue Lawley's guest this week is the Shadow Home Secretary Ann Widdecombe. Since the last election she has used her free time to write a novel, but has no plans to become a full time author since politics remains her passion. Some two years after she spiked Michael Howard's bid to become leader of the Conservative Party, she is herself being talked about as a possible Tory Leader. Lees meer

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: How Great Thou Are by Aled Jones
    Book: Collected Poems by Thomas Gray
    Luxury: (Hot) shower

42. James Dyson

    20 juni 1999 · 37 min

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    Sue Lawley's guest this week is James Dyson. Today he's one of the richest men in Britain, but he began with an idea, a piece of cardboard and some sticky-backed plastic. Five years and more than 5,000 prototypes later, he was confident that he had invented a new type of vacuum cleaner. But that was to prove only the beginning of a long, drawn-out battle to get it licensed. Lees meer

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: Slowdown by Wax On Wax Off
    Book: Olives: The Life and Love of a Noble Fruit by Mort Rosenslum
    Luxury: Olive Oil

43. John Barry

    13 juni 1999 · 38 min

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    Sue Lawley's guest this week is the film composer John Barry. The Pope is said to adore his soundtrack to Dances with Wolves. Although he's probably best known for the theme tunes he wrote for the Bond movies; including Goldfinger and Diamonds are Forever. In all, he's won five Oscars - not bad for a Yorkshire lad who happened to hit London just as it began to swing. Lees meer

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: Symphony No.9 - Adagio by Gustav Mahler
    Book: Eternal Echoes by John O'Donohue
    Luxury: Grand piano

44. Chris Bonington

    6 juni 1999 · 37 min

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    Sue Lawley's guest this week is Chris Bonington. In a climbing career spanning 48 years he has stood astride British mountaineering 'like a hairy colossus', climbing and leading expeditions as well as photographing and writing about them. Along the way he has seen many friends perish on the mountains and more than once narrowly escaped death himself. Lees meer

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: Once I Had A Sweetheart by Joan Baez
    Book: History of the English-Speaking Peoples by Sir Winston Churchill
    Luxury: Power Book G3 (laptop computer)

45. Anthony Howard

    30 mei 1999 · 39 min

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    Sue Lawley's guest this week is the journalist Anthony Howard. He's worked on The New Statesman, The Observer and The Sunday Times, where as Obituaries Editor, he turned a previously dead-end job into a highly competitive art form. A regular television commentator, he probably inherited his gift for oratory from his father, a parson who gave stirring sermons. Lees meer

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: The Toasting Song (from La Traviata - Act One) by Giuseppe Verdi
    Book: Dictionary of National Biography
    Luxury: Camp bed

46. Christopher Bruce

    23 mei 1999 · 37 min

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    Sue Lawley's guest this week is the artistic director of the Rambert Dance Company Christopher Bruce. As a child he was sent to dance lessons to strengthen his legs after polio had left them severely weakened. Ten years later he was the star of Ballet Rambert. Not content with being dubbed 'the Nureyev of contemporary dance' he went on to become one of the great choreographers, working all over the world before returning to the company as Director in 1994. Lees meer

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: Piano Concerto No.2 by Sergei Rachmaninov
    Book: Teach yourself French
    Luxury: Suncream

47. Michael Green

    16 mei 1999 · 37 min

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    This week the castaway on Desert Island Discs is Michael Green. As Chairman of Carlton Communications he is one of the most powerful men in British television and the driving force behind digital TV. In conversation with Sue Lawley, he talks about his life and work and chooses eight records to take to the mythical island. Lees meer

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: Jersualem by Vangelis
    Book: The Complete Works by Sigmund Freud
    Luxury: Digital TV

48. Richard Dreyfuss

    9 mei 1999 · 37 min

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    Sue Lawley's guest this week is Richard Dreyfuss. He was already the youngest actor ever to win an Oscar when he starred in the phenomenally successful Jaws and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Too many drugs and too much drink threatened his career until in 1982 he had a terrible car smash which brought him to his senses. Today, with a dozen more hit films under his belt he's fulfilling a lifelong ambition to appear on the London stage. Lees meer

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: 4th Movement of the Thunderstorm by Ludwig van Beethoven
    Book: A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
    Luxury: Books delivered to the island on a regular basis

49. Helen Bamber

    2 mei 1999 · 38 min

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    Sue Lawley's guest this week is Helen Bamber. In 1945, at the age of 20, she travelled to Belsen with the Jewish Relief agency. There she learnt how important it is to listen to those who have suffered. It was a lesson she continued to practice in her work with Amnesty International, and later with the Medical Foundation for the Victims of Torture which she set up in 1985. Lees meer

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: Song of the Birds by Cant Del Ocells
    Book: Poet for Poet by Richard McCain
    Luxury: Radio to listen to the World Service

50. Stan Tracey

    25 april 1999 · 35 min

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    Sue Lawley's guest this week is the jazz musician Stan Tracey. He's been at the heart of the British Jazz scene since the 1960s when he was resident pianist at Ronnie Scotts. It was at that time he wrote what has been called the greatest of all British jazz albums - his Under Milk Wood suite. Lees meer

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: Mood Indigo by Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
    Book: Crazy Like A Fox by S J Perelman
    Luxury: Film: Oh Mister Porter