BS: Ishiguro's Desert Island Discs

Subject: Ishiguro's Desert Island Discs
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 17 Feb 02 - 05:15 PM

A fascinating set of record choices by the guest in Desert Island Discs on BBC Radio today (Feb 17th). They included songs by Dick Gaughan, Bob Dylan, Emmylou Harris and Leonard Cohen. And the guest was someone you might not have expected those choices from - Kazuo Ishiguro, author of, among other things, The Remains of the Day (which was made into a film.

Anyway, Kazuo Ishiguro is a man in our corner.

Subject: RE: BS: Ishiguro's Desert Island Discs
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 17 Feb 02 - 05:18 PM

The middle bit from that post went missing. Here it is (I hope):

Here is a link to a page on the BBC website about it, with the full list of record choices. The programme is repeated in Friday morning 22nd Feb - unfortunately they don't have a sound file of the programme on that site, or a link to the records. (But the page explains about how the programme, which has now been going for 60 years.)

Subject: RE: BS: Ishiguro's Desert Island Discs
From: 8_Pints
Date: 17 Feb 02 - 06:19 PM

Sue & I agreed on hearing the program, how strange that others might value our culture perhaps more than some our own indiginous population.

Bob vG

Subject: RE: BS: Ishiguro's Desert Island Discs
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 17 Feb 02 - 06:22 PM

But he's lived in the UK since he was 5 and his wife is Scottish....

Subject: RE: BS: Ishiguro's Desert Island Discs
From: John Routledge
Date: 17 Feb 02 - 06:22 PM

Bob - I think that you are being very kind to the indiginous population.

John

Subject: RE: BS: Ishiguro's Desert Island Discs
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 18 Feb 02 - 04:45 PM

What's wrong with the links? Both led to my Navigator getting stuck. Pity!

Subject: RE: BS: Ishiguro's Desert Island Discs
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 18 Feb 02 - 06:23 PM

The links work with IE and with Opera. Better check your Netscape installation?

As Kitty say, Ishiguro has been here all his life, and is completely Engkishg in his speech and so forth, and has put down roots. However, the same is true for me, and I still see this island as in a sense a foreign country, and I think that's has made me value its music and traditions a lot more than if I was completely "indigenous."