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17 Feb 02 - 05:15 PM (#652296) Subject: Ishiguro's Desert Island Discs From: McGrath of Harlow 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.
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17 Feb 02 - 05:18 PM (#652298) Subject: RE: BS: Ishiguro's Desert Island Discs From: McGrath of Harlow 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.)
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17 Feb 02 - 06:19 PM (#652321) Subject: RE: BS: Ishiguro's Desert Island Discs From: 8_Pints 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 |
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17 Feb 02 - 06:22 PM (#652323) Subject: RE: BS: Ishiguro's Desert Island Discs From: Herga Kitty But he's lived in the UK since he was 5 and his wife is Scottish.... |
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17 Feb 02 - 06:22 PM (#652324) Subject: RE: BS: Ishiguro's Desert Island Discs From: John Routledge Bob - I think that you are being very kind to the indiginous population. John |
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18 Feb 02 - 04:45 PM (#652871) Subject: RE: BS: Ishiguro's Desert Island Discs From: Susanne (skw) What's wrong with the links? Both led to my Navigator getting stuck. Pity! |
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18 Feb 02 - 06:23 PM (#652949) Subject: RE: BS: Ishiguro's Desert Island Discs From: McGrath of Harlow 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."
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