Re: Hypothetical Question: GG in Concert: Would You Go?

[Kate Clunies-Ross <goldbergs@TALK21.COM>]

Original message:
>From: Tim Conway <timcon@COMSWEST.NET.AU>
>To: F_MINOR@EMAIL.RUTGERS.EDU
> Elmer Elevator said:
>
>>Is anyone a listener to BBC's Desert Island Recordings show, where the guest
>>brings a list of the ten recordings she/he would take to a desert island?
>>How often does GG pop up on that show?
>
> Desert Island Discs (DID), for many years presided over by Roy Plomley
> who is now sadly dead. A well-known woman interviewer took his place but
> I cannot remember her name, not having lived in England for many years.

I think it was Sue Lawley, but Ihavent listened to it for ages

> And wasn't it 8 recordings? I'm not sure, but each interview took an hour
> so 10 might have been too many.

It was indeed. And if I remember correctly, the guest was also ask to
nominate one of the eight that he would take if only one of them  was
allowed.He/she was alsoallowed to take  a "luxury"  (not a human being!) and
one book, apart from the Bible and Shakespeare, which originally were chosen
so often that the programme eventually 'allowed' them without question.

I read somewhere that the actress Hermione Gingold asked for the Albert
Memorial as her luxury, Heaven knows what she was thinking of.

Maybe F-minors would like to nominate their eight choices....How many would
be GG?
>
> I used to listen to DID every week in the 50s and 60s, and also heard it
> from time to time when I returned to UK on leave, but not once do I
> recall GG being requested. Others may have different memories. It
> certainly was (is) a delightful programme, the sort of thing GG might
> have taken to, perhaps.
>
This triggers a memory, but I am not sure where I read it....Didnt Canada
have a similar radio programme, and didnt GG once grumble to a friend
because he had never been asked to be the'castaway' ? Because. he said, if
ever there  was someone in Canada who could be termed a professional hermit,
it was him!

No doubt someone will tell me if I remeber aright, or if I imagined this.

Kate