Here's what the show is about -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/des ... 0607.shtml
Desert Island Discs is one of Radio 4's most popular and enduring programmes. Created by Roy Plomley in 1942, the format is simple: each week a guest is invited by Sue Lawley to choose the eight records they would take with them to a desert island.
The discussion of their choice is a device for them to review their life. They also choose a favourite book (excluding the Bible or other religious work and Shakespeare - these already await the "castaway") and a luxury which must be inanimate and have no practical use.
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Elvis's 8 records were
1. String Quartet No. 16 in F major, Op. 135
Ludwig van Beethoven
http://www.amazon.com/End-Games-Beethov ... 26-1961745
End Games
The Brodsky Quartet
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2. I've Got You Under My Skin
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Songs-Swingin-L ... F8&s=music
Songs for Swingin' Lovers
~ Frank Sinatra
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3. At Last - Joe Loss Orchestra , featuring Ross McManus
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4. Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K.
492 Act 1, Scene 5, No 6: Non so più cosa son, cosa
faccio
Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
with Cecilia Bartoli, Peter de Rose, Berlin
Philharmonic Orchestra, Gunter Von Kannen, John
Tomlinson, Lella Cuberli, Andreas Schmidt, Richard
Amner, Joan Rodgers, Graham Clark, Hilde Leidland,
Richard Brunner, Zuckermann, Phyllis Pancella
Conducted by Daniel Barenboim
http://www.amazon.com/Mozart-nozze-Figa ... F8&s=music
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro / Barenboim
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5. You've Really Got A Hold On Me
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Beatles/dp/B000 ... F8&s=music
With the Beatles
~ The Beatles
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6. Sonata In B Flat, D. 960: I. Molto moderato
Franz Peter Schubert
http://www.amazon.com/Schubert-Last-Thr ... 26-1961745
Schubert: The Last Three Piano Sonatas
Alfred Brendal
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7. Dido's Lament
Henry Purcell
http://www.amazon.com/Purcell-Aeneas-En ... F8&s=music
Purcell - Dido and Aeneas
Conductor: Trevor Pinnock
Performer: Trevor Pinnock, Anne Sofie von Otter
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8. Blood Count
Billy Strayhorn
http://www.amazon.co.uk/His-Mother-Call ... F8&s=music
And His Mother Called Him Bill
~ Duke Ellington
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Elvis' luxury was a upright piano with this image reproduced on it -
http://www.bergerfoundation.ch/Sandro/4 ... glish.html
![Image](http://www.bergerfoundation.ch/Sandro/images/Img_big47.jpg)
Saint Barnabas Altarpiece - Sandro Botticelli
A magnificent commission from Florence's richest guild, the doctors' and apothecaries ', for their church which was dedicated to their saint, Barnabas, the protector of medicine. Within this guild, there were all sorts of imaginable and unimaginable sponsorships, all the names in Florence are represented, and this was thus a very important commission. Botticelli agreed to paint this strange painting, which, as we have already seen, is made up of a Greek temple pediment showing us a Virgin and Child, surrounded by saints. The composition is surprising, as it is absolutely and totally immobile and hieratical: it looks like eight statues set down, one next to the other. What gives the piece its mobility is the presence of the superb angels parting the curtain of the Virgin's dais and revealing all the characters to the faithful. Let's also note the beauty of the color appositions, the very bottle green of Saint Catherine's garment on the left and Saint Augustine's much more firmly stated green; the two greens stand in counterpoint to the Virgin's royal blue mantle. Botticelli was already showing the adventurous sense of color that he will develop. One of the figures in this altarpiece would become famous: the image of Saint John the Baptist, which was long thought to be another Botticelli self portrait, but which simply remains a deeply moving face because of the piercing quality of the eyes that Botticelli gave him.
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Elvis' book was a Thurber collection that had to include these -
Let Your Mind Alone!
http://www.amazon.com/Thurber-Writings- ... F8&s=books
Writings and Drawings
by James Thurber
The Dog That Bit People
http://www.amazon.com/Life-Hard-Times-P ... F8&s=books
My Life and Hard Times
by James Thurber
The Greatest Man in the World
http://www.amazon.com/Thurber-Carnival- ... F8&s=books
The Thurber Carnival
by James Thurber
The interview covered the , for 1992, standard Costello stuff.
Hopefully I'll have some sound clips to add to this later.