Listen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.comID: 242293Title: Desert Island Discs: 70 years of castawaysAuthor: Sean MageeNarrator: Alex Jennings, Juliet StevensonFormat: UnabridgedLength: 18:12:30Language: EnglishRelease date: 11-08-12Publisher: Penguin Books LTDGenres: Biography & Memoir, Arts & EntertainmentSummary:For seventy years now Desert Island Discs has managed that rare feat to be both enduring and relevant. By casting away the biggest names of the day in science, business, politics, showbiz, sport and the arts, it presents a cross-sectional snapshot of the times in which we live. As the decades have passed, the programme has kept pace; never frozen in time yet always, somehow, comfortingly the same. Kirsty YoungBBC Radio 4s Desert Island Discs celebrates its seventieth birthday in 2012. Since the programmes deviser Roy Plomley interviewed comedian Vic Oliver in January 1942, nearly 3,000 distinguished people from all walks of life have been stranded on the mythical island, accompanied by only eight records, one book and a luxury.Here the story of one of BBC Radio 4s favourite programmes is chronicled through a special selection of castaways.Roy Plomley, inventor of the programme as well as its presenter for over forty years, quizzes the young Cliff Richard about these rather frenzied movements the 1960s pop sensation makes on the stage. Robert Maxwell tells Plomleys successor Michael Parkinson that I will have left the world a slightly better place by having lived in it. Diana Mosley assures Sue Lawley that Adolf Hitler was extraordinarily fascinating and had mesmeric blue eyes. And Johnny Vegas tugs Kirsty Youngs heart-strings with his account of a childhood so impoverished that family pets were fair game: My dad had always claimed that rabbits were livestock, but wed never eaten one before.Desert Island Discs is much more than a radio programme. It is a unique and enduringly popular take on our lives and times and this book tells in rich detail the colourful and absorbing story of an extraordinary institution.Contact: [email protected]

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