Kirsty Young
speaker
342 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2010
last heard 31 May
Kirsty Young’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Appearances
You didn't?
No, no.
Let's have some music then.
Tell me about your third disc today.
What have you chosen?
That was Chopin's revolutionary study.
June Spencer, you were 20 then when war was declared.
For you personally, what did that mean?
to say where they were going.
And did you have a sense of foreboding, or given that you were only 20, did it all seem like something of an adventure?
Never a wiser word.
Tell me about your wedding then, because if you got married in the middle of the war, presumably it was quite a modest affair, was it?
Rice paper?
You've still got one of the tears from that.
I have, yes.
Let's take a break for some music then.
Tell me about your next track.
We're on number four now.
Debussy's En Bateau, to remind you, June Spencer, of those early days in radio.
So Roger then was posted to India and to Burma.
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