Desert Island Discs was regular listening in our household. My mother and I used to listen to it on a regular basis. After each episode we listened to, we would talk about the items chosen by that week’s guest.
If you are not familiar with Desert Island Discs it’s a long running BBC Radio 4 programme where the interview has a twist. The guests are called “castaways” who get to choose, and discuss, eight recordings. These are usually pieces of music: however, this is not always the case. In addition to the Bible and a copy of the complete works of Shakespeare castaways are also allowed to take with them a book and a luxury item.
The show was first broadcast on 29th January 1942 so has recently celebrated its 77th birthday. There have been over 3,000 shows recorded with some castaways returning to the island for a 2nd time.
This is an edited recording of the episode in which the castaway John Cleese asks to take fellow actor Michel Palin as his luxury item. The solution to Palin being unacceptable because he is animate is classic.
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