Desert Island Discs database

[AndyM]

Who picked what ? Who likes similar music ? Which Mahler symphony links Debbie Harry & Roger Waters ? Who knew Baaba Maal liked Johnny Hallyday ? Why doesn't John Barry like pop music ?

If you have few plans on this dank (down here) Bank Holiday Monday, this will keep you amused for ages.......

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/de ... a-castaway

[AndyM]

More questions (that may only interest me.......).......... Who knew Meera Syal had such great taste ? Who'd have thought Tracey Emin and Charles Kennedy MP had the same favourite Bowie track ? Who knew 'Rasputin' by Boney M would be Clarissa Dickson Wright's favourite song (but then she did spend years in an alcoholic stupour) ? Can one ever see Archbishop Desmond Tutu in the same light after discovering his fondness for 'We Are the World' ?

[NormanD]

How's the marking going, Andy?

[AndyM]

Starting tomorrow. Left them in my office at work to save polluting the weekend. 36 8000-word dissertations in four days - piece of piss.

[Chris P]

I remember Vic Reeves' choices as being close to my own taste, hearing Henry Cow & Sue Lawley's almost audibly wrinkled nose on a Sunday's R4 was delightful:

1. Jimi Hendrix Voodoo Chile

2.Castaway's favourite Ralph Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending

Soloist: Michael Davis Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra

3. Ella Fitzgerald The Very Thought Of You

4. Henry Cow Nirvana for Mice

5. Free Mr Big

6. Aphex Twin Bucephalus Bouncing Ball

[Des]

2.Castaway's favourite Ralph Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending

Soloist: Michael Davis Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra

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No no no - gotta be Hugh Bean/Boult.

[Adam Blake]

Starting tomorrow. Left them in my office at work to save polluting the weekend. 36 8000-word dissertations in four days - piece of piss.

Ah but what if one of them - maybe the 35th dissertation - turns out to be a seminal work of genius that forces you to radically re-assess your attitudes and assumptions about everything...! (would you give them an A* - or write "see me" in the margin?)

[AndyM]

Starting tomorrow. Left them in my office at work to save polluting the weekend. 36 8000-word dissertations in four days - piece of piss.

Ah but what if one of them - maybe the 35th dissertation - turns out to be a seminal work of genius that forces you to radically re-assess your attitudes and assumptions about everything...! (would you give them an A* - or write "see me" in the margin?)

I'd be dead of shock so the other options would cease to pertain. Most students these days have as their chief aim in life a 62% for everything. Depressing!

[Des]

Most of them will probably end up working in the semiotics department of John Lewis anyway.

[gary booth]

'Never Knowingly Understood'