Desert Island Discs
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qnmr
Late one evening in 1941, freelance broadcaster Roy Plomley was at his home and already in his pyjamas, when an idea came to him. He sat down and wrote immediately to the BBC. That letter reached the in-tray of the BBC’s Head of Popular Record Programmes, Leslie Perowne. The pitch was successful and a broadcasting institution was born.
That first Desert Island Discs was recorded in the BBC’s bomb-damaged Maida Vale studio on 27th January 1942 and aired in the Forces Programme at 8pm two days later. It was introduced to the listening public as "a programme in which a well-known person is asked the question, if you were to be cast away alone on a desert island, which eight gramophone records would you choose to have with you, assuming of course, that you had a gramophone and an inexhaustible supply of needles".
My selections if forced to choose:
Book - The Power of Myth - Joseph Campbell
Luxury Item - Guitar (or fly rod)
XTC - Mayor of Simpleton
Los Lobos - Saint Behind The Glass
https://www.thissongchangedmylife.co...hanged-my-life
Rolling Stones - Rocks Off
REM - Nightswimming
Throwing Muses - Not Too Soon
ABBA - Knowing Me, Knowing You
Husker Du - Celebrated Summer
Replacements - Left Of The Dial
My Canadian Discs:
Young Canadians - Hawaii
Diodes - Tired Of Waking Up Tired
Modern Minds (Moe Berg) - It’s Gone
New Pornographers - The Laws Have Changed
Martha and the Muffins - Echo Beach
Rough Trade - High School Confidential
Bruce Cockburn - Lovers In A Dangerous Time
Tragically Hip - Bobcaygeon
