Desert Island Discs....er...

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...don't some people want to be stranded with some...odd tunes?

I realise this is just my rubbish personal opinion, but blimey...

I loved the one a few months back with (I think Sir Paul Condon, definitely an ex Met chief anyway) and all he seemed to want were military marching tunes. I had this great mental picture of him marching around the island all on his own..!

Most strange.

I wonder if castaways have a real list all Abba and Duran Duran, but then scrap it for the more impressive and educated one.

Sometimes though I love the choices and of course they aren't odd at all...to me

it's true - those ones when you wish the excerpts weren't so short. What would yours be?

Does anyone ever refuse to have the Bible and Shakespeare?

Some people's choices of luxury are refused. Michael York asked for a telescope and that was refused because he could use it to look for approaching ships. (Or polar bears or smoke-monsters.)

what's a smoke monster?

My list keeps changing. As long as I had enough wine I'd be happy enough Actually I think I'd love the peace.

I would refuse Shakespeare, swap it for an Argos catalog .

Elvis Costello chose (mostly) good tunes when he was on.

poppycake - its a Lost reference...

it's, sorry

Why can't you do listen again for Desert Island Discs?

Oh, I've just seen it on the webiste: "for rights reasons" whatever that means...

Ha - I'm so out of it I thought it was a reference that had been somehow lost... you mean that programme! I really need to stay in more...

Some people say, 'no' to Bible, as they'd prefer the Koran. Seems fair enough, but no one, that I know of, has said, 'can't be doing with the Bard...'

Funny that - obviously saying no thanks to Shakespeare but give me the equivalent wordcount of Hello magazine (would be years' worth surely!) would not go down well with R4 listeners.

I'm sure someone recently swapped the Shakey for something else but I can't remember who, or what.

The Bible can be swapped for Koran or other religious text.

I'm sure I did hear someone refuse any such, can't remember who now though.

I was annoyed about the lack of Listen Again last week - I think the problem is that the BBC doesn't have the right to make the 8 records available on the internet. I don't see why they couldn't do an edited version with just the interview part.

I'd like the Bible swapped for the equivalent wordage in any other fiction.

The one I listened to the other day was fascinating,the guy had real eclectic tastes,from Annie Lennox to Pavarotti.It made me chuckle.I love it when someone you think is going to go for loads of tedious classical stuff chooses something really random.

Scootergrrrl - if you have a FreeSat box (possibly Sky+ too) you can record it and play it back at your leisure. DH worked it out for me - I'm not taking the credit. It's the only way we've found. Otherwise there's listen again to the repeat on Fridays.

They never used to choose pop/rock at all in the 70s, did they? With Roy Plomley? It was all very stuffy.

I remember Frank Oz (from the Muppet Show) choosing "Ant Music" and Roy Plomley saying the name as if it was something that came from another planet. "Thet was... Ent Music, by Edem end the Ents. Ahem."

It used to make my mother purse her lips if anything "pop" was chosen, and do her "scoffy" voice and what Radio 4, and the world in general, was coming to. Same if "Brain of Britain" featured a pop question. "Not worth knowing" apparently...

Did you hear the one last (?) week. It was a woman who was first told her mother had died in a car crash in Iran via her whole school assembly at a boarding school in the Midlands So appalling. She was great though. I think I would have gone back to the school and committed some horrible act against the head.