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Thread #148937   Message #3466016
Posted By: Simon Ritchie
14-Jan-13 - 01:59 PM
Thread Name: Martin Carthy on a Desert Island
Subject: RE: Martin Carthy on a Desert Island
For people who missed the programme and for those in forn parts, it's on the BBC website and can be played using an Internet near you. They keep most stuff for a week but I believe they keep editions of DID forever (or until they get bored with this website palavar).

See www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pt8dj for a recording of the programme plus an annotated list of the tracks he asked for.

Concerning the discussions about the bible, unlike Martin, most of the people who go on this programme are image-obsessed celebs, politicians and other members of the "great and good" and they choose everything they say with the audience in mind. If allowed, I'm guessing 95% of them would ask for the bible and/or the complete works of Shakespeare even today. ("because I would find it sooo inspirational darling")