Desert Island Discs Concepts

War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line

by David Nott · 21 Feb 2019 · 327pp · 112,191 words

Nott Foundation has grown extraordinarily since our early beginnings. We have been hugely helped by David’s profile in the media and in particular the Desert Island Discs broadcast in June 2016. We still get letters now about that very special piece of radio. As a young charity, every donation feels personal, an

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-high by four-metre-wide painting which hung in the 2014 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. In 2016 I was honoured to be asked to do Desert Island Discs on BBC Radio 4. I was in the studio for about two hours and deeply uncertain, when the recording finished, how I would come across

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music I chose meant something to them. I am so grateful to Cathy Drysdale, Kirsty Young and all their team for giving me the opportunity. Desert Island Discs gave a great boost to the charity I established with Elly, the David Nott Foundation. We established the foundation to train doctors in the surgical

My Kitchen in Rome: Recipes and Notes on Italian Cooking

by Rachel Roddy · 2 Feb 2016 · 305pp · 87,514 words

, and discovered how good alternating bites of anchovy and butter-drenched toast are with crisp, peppery radish, especially when leaning against the sink listening to Desert Island Discs. Gobbled snacks aside, this does make a good, companionable start to a meal. I put a pile of toast or bread, a pat of butter

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and molding the balls requires only half of your attention, allowing the rest to wander off somewhere else, a kitchen conversation or another episode of Desert Island Discs, perhaps. I like a mixture of pork and beef, half and half ideally, but any proportions will do. I also like the addition of bread

A Classless Society: Britain in the 1990s

by Alwyn W. Turner · 4 Sep 2013 · 1,013pp · 302,015 words

do so at the ground so close to his heart that he had chosen it as his luxury item when appearing on Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs. Again Major encountered the warmth that he so often brought out in people he met in person. ‘You had a rough decision, mate,’ one of

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several in Westminster asserting ‘as a fact’ that he was gay. In 1996, while still shadow chancellor, Brown had appeared on the Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs, where he was questioned by presenter Sue Lawley about his private life and why he was neither married nor known to have a steady partner

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hope it does. It may yet. It probably will do.’ The incident caused a minor controversy. Diana Wong, whose late husband Roy Plomley had created Desert Island Discs, and who owned the rights to the show’s format, expressed her displeasure at the intrusive line of questioning, while the actor Michael Cashman, a

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out after the first round.’ ‘I don’t want Scotland to be presented as simply a nation living in the past,’ observed Gordon Brown on Desert Island Discs.‘We want to be a modern country with a vibrant, dynamic economy and culture.’ He went on to introduce Runrig’s version of ‘Loch Lomond

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1 Deeson, Martin ref 1 defence cuts ref 1 democratisation of popular taste ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4 Dempster, Nigel ref 1 Desert Island Discs (radio) ref 1, ref 2, ref 3 Design Museum ref 1, ref 2, ref 3 Desmond, Richard ref 1 devolution ref 1, ref 2 Dewar

Asymmetry

by Lisa Halliday · 6 Feb 2018 · 287pp · 77,181 words

of what you like to read. You will continue to receive exclusive offers in your inbox. CONTENTS I Folly II Madness III Ezra Blazer’s Desert Island Discs Acknowledgments About the Author For Theo I FOLLY We all live slapstick lives, under an inexplicable sentence of death . . . —MARTIN GARDNER, The Annotated Alice ALICE

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Saturday nights, quintessentially British and brimming with camaraderie, felt like whatever I’d been running to, which no longer needed to be found. The first Desert Island Discs castaway I ever heard was Joseph Rotblat, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate who’d helped to invent the atomic bomb and then spent much of

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glide eastward and westward at once—their hoods and wheels and windshields to disappear into antimatter, the flag to devour itself. III EZRA BLAZER’S DESERT ISLAND DISCS [recorded at BBC Broadcasting House in London on February 14, 2011] INTERVIEWER: My castaway this week is a writer. A clever boy originally from the

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is here, the wonderful Maurizio Pollini is here, and he’s playing Beethoven’s last three piano sonatas. So, my final question for you? On Desert Island Discs? Tomorrow night, Maurizio Pollini, at Royal Festival Hall, and I can bring only one woman, and I would like that woman to be you. So

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GERSHWIN MUSIC administered by WB MUSIC CORP. All Rights Reserved. Used by permission of ALFRED PUBLISHING, LLC. Reprinted by permission of Hal Leonard LLC. The Desert Island Discs episode summarized and quoted from on pages 186 through 189 is Sue Lawley’s interview with Joseph Rotblat, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on November

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it about them that spoke to you? Why might his writings inspire Maddie to go into medicine? 2. Listen to the songs on Ezra’s Desert Island Discs playlist. Did you like them? What would you choose for your own playlist? Share your selections with your book club, explaining the memories behind each

Fall: The Mysterious Life and Death of Robert Maxwell, Britain's Most Notorious Media Baron

by John Preston · 9 Feb 2021 · 374pp · 110,238 words

back of a van and driven off to the courthouse. Nearly fifty years later, Maxwell was a guest on the long-running BBC radio show Desert Island Discs. The presenter, Michael Parkinson, introduced him by saying, ‘If our castaway needed the money, which he doesn’t, he could sell his life story to

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just the two of us.’ 17. A Very Happy Person In July 1987, Robert Maxwell was a guest on the long-running BBC radio programme Desert Island Discs, where he was interviewed by the show’s presenter, Michael Parkinson. After describing Maxwell’s life story as ‘more exotic than fiction’, Parkinson went on

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something else, then changes his mind, taking Parkinson by surprise. There is an awkward silence. MP:‘Robert Maxwell, thank you for letting us hear your Desert Island Discs.’ Anyone who didn’t know much, or anything, about Maxwell before listening to this would have been left with certain impressions. Above all, that he

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Hoge Rupert Murdoch Jim Willse Charlie Wilson 1. The Salt Mine Books History of the Queen’s Royal Regiment Press Playboy interview, October 1991 Radio Desert Island Discs, 1987 2. Out of the Darkness Books History of the Queen’s Royal Regiment Interviews Joe Haines Ian Maxwell Mike Molloy 3. An Adventurer of

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; believes RM may have faked own death, 255; later life and death, 283 Davis, William, 200 De La Rue, 195–6 Dennis, Lance-Corporal, 12 Desert Island Discs (radio show), 5, 138–41 Diana, Princess of Wales, 136, 149, 283 Dinkins, David, xvi, xxvi, 213 Djurovic, Vesna, 257, 258–9 Dönitz, Admiral Karl

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, 95; relationship with Greg, 95–6; typical Christmas, 97–8; photo on Christmas card, 100; and RM’s eating, 134, 135, 136; chooses RM’s Desert Island Discs, 141; attitude to Rothschild’s, 146; studies the Holocaust and her and RM’s family trees, 150, 281; visits RM’s home town, 150–51

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Christmases, 97, 98; fired by RM, then eventually rehired, 98–9; takes Sasakawa to Buckingham Palace garden party, 105–6, 107–8; chooses RM’s Desert Island Discs, 141; at lavish RM party, 157; appears in advert for MCC, 166–7; stands in for RM at engagements, 174, 188–9; made joint MD

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–23, 125–7; Pitt-Atkins predicts dramatic fall, 123–4; treatment of employees at this time, 127–32; increasing weight problem, 133–7; appears on Desert Island Discs, 5, 138–41; loses battle against Murdoch for ownership of Today, 142–4; buys Macmillan and Official Aviation Guide, 145–6; buys Lady Ghislaine, 147

First Time Ever: A Memoir

by Peggy Seeger · 2 Oct 2017

, downcast and devastated even though he’s dead by now. Jenni Murray has me twice on Woman’s Hour and Sue Lawley invites me onto Desert Island Discs. The BBC’s Jim Lloyd devotes seven half-hours of his Folk on Four radio programme to me. We win the 1995 Sony Silver Radio

Operation Chastise: The RAF's Most Brilliant Attack of World War II

by Max Hastings · 18 Feb 2020 · 375pp · 111,615 words

light flak and the fury of the enemy defence.’ A few months later, he chose as one of his favourite records on BBC radio’s Desert Island Discs Wagner’s ‘Ride of the Valkyries’: ‘it’s exciting, it’s grandiose, it’s . . . rather terrible. It reminds me of a bombing raid.’ Then Guy

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Macclesfield, though three months later he saw sense and stepped down. He was featured as the castaway for an early edition of BBC radio’s Desert Island Discs, on which he told Roy Plomley frankly: ‘I’m not a highbrow by any means. In fact I can’t claim to know an awful

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with the course of justice, and by the time of the hearing the airman’s story had anyway ended. Roy Plomley signed off Gibson on Desert Island Discs by saying, ‘Good luck, happy landings, and thank you.’ Gibson responded, ‘Goodnight, everyone.’ But there were to be no happy landings. Having somehow contrived to

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sort’ AI Bomber Command veteran 1977 ‘Our noses were’ Gibson ECA p.21 ‘One hour to go’ ibid. unpublished draft p.24 ‘it’s exciting’ Desert Island Discs 19.2.44 ‘This was the big thing’ Gibson ECA unpublished draft p.4 1: Grand Strategy, Great Dams ‘All the old animosities’ USNA OWI

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quoted ibid. p.195 ‘Mickey Rooney’ ibid. p.314 ‘why had two great’ Gibson ECA p.30 ‘I’m not a highbrow’ Gibson in transcript Desert Island Discs broadcast 19.2.44 ‘I do feel that Guy’ Eve Gibson letter in St Edward’s school archive ‘When the film The Dam Busters’ Information

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, 129–30 Davey, Dr Norman, 34 Deering, F/Sgt. George, xxxiii, 191, 193 D’Erlanger, Leo, 32 Derwent dam (nr Sheffield), 23, 116, 130, 143 Desert Island Discs, xxxv, 298, 300 Diemel dam, 161 Dieppe raid, 3 Dillgardt, Justus, 18–19 Dimbleby, Richard, 136 Directorate of Bomber Operations, 12–13 Divall, Sgt. Bill

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career, 297–8; death of (19 September 1944), 300–1; decorations, xxxi, 64–6, 70, 72, 273–5; describes effects of Möhne breach, 202–3; Desert Island Discs appearance, 298, 300; and draft operation order, 144–5, 155–6; at the Eder in G-George, 208–9, 212, 214, 217–18; Enemy Coast

And Away...

by Bob Mortimer · 15 Sep 2021 · 261pp · 87,663 words

to enjoy doing the occasional solo appearance on podcasts like those of Richard Herring and Adam Buxton, and radio interviews such as an episode of Desert Island Discs with the lovely Lauren Laverne. I found that I no longer felt the need to just be the funny guy. I was actually better at

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bott 188–9 Dawson, Andy 269–70 Dee, Jack 289, 313 Dennis, Les 260 Dennis, Mr, the Shopkeeper 195 Dent, Jack 181 Derbyshire Wye 276 Desert Island Discs 271 Diamond, Neil 90 Difford, Chris 184 dinner parties 272 Doctor King and his Flying Rabbits 184 Dog Dirt (band) 69–75 Drifters 261–2

The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography

by Stephen Fry · 27 Sep 2010 · 487pp · 132,252 words

Ministry, Gardener’s Question Time, The Burkiss Way, The Jason Explanation, Round Britain Quiz, Just a Minute, I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue, Desert Island Discs and a hundred other dramas, comedies, quizzes and features have amused, amazed, enriched, enraged, informed and inflamed me from the earliest age. My voice, I

Sarah Millican--The Queen of Comedy

by Tina Campanella · 14 Apr 2017 · 252pp · 80,924 words

that same dress. ‘I felt wonderful in that dress, surely that’s all that counts?’ she asked readers. When she appeared on Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs the following year she talked about the more modern form of bullying that exists on social media. ‘The public, fans, nice people, realise how unimportant

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. X’ The wedding was a simple yet personal affair and Sarah revealed some of the details of the big day when she took part in Desert Island Discs later that year. She told radio host Kirsty Young that, as she wasn’t particularly religious, there weren’t any hymns that she particularly liked

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so she decided to choose something less traditional – Paul McCartney’s ‘Frog Chorus’. As an avid listener of Desert Island Discs, she told Kirsty she had got the idea when she listened to actress Kathy Burke on the show. ‘There was a Frank Sinatra song and