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Over 45 CDs of Classic fiction. Performed by Joanna David, Juliet Stevenson, Richard Pasco, Hugh Laurie, Jill Balcon, Alex Jennings, Harriet Walter & Nigel Anthony, all contained within a metal round case. This is a brilliant sampler of classic English literature for both the seasoned listener and those new to audiobooks.

Desert Island Disks - 70 Years of Castaways from one of BBC Radio 4's best-loved programmes written by Sean Magee performed by Alex Jennings and Juliet Stevenson on CD (Unabridged)

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ISBN:  9781448160754
Genre - Main:  Non-Fiction
Genre - Specific:  Biography
Duration:  1091 mins
Length:  Unabridged
Author:  Sean Magee
Narrator 1:  Alex Jennings
Narrator 2:  Juliet Stevenson
Rarity:  Extremely Rare

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For 70 years now Desert Island Discs has managed that rare feat - to be both enduring and relevant. By casting away the biggest names of the day in science, business, politics, showbiz, sport, and the arts, it presents a cross-sectional snapshot of the times in which we live.

As the decades have passed, the programme has kept pace; never frozen in time yet always, somehow, comfortingly the same. BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs celebrates its 70 birthday in 2012. Since the programme's deviser, Roy Plomley, interviewed comedian Vic Oliver in January 1942, nearly 3,000 distinguished people from all walks of life have been stranded on the mythical island, accompanied by only eight records, one book, and a luxury.

Here the story of one of BBC Radio 4's favourite programmes is chronicled through a special selection of castaways. Roy Plomley, inventor of the programme as well as its presenter for over 40 years, quizzes the young Cliff Richard about "these rather frenzied movements" the 1960s pop sensation makes on the stage. Robert Maxwell tells Plomley's successor, Michael Parkinson, that "I will have left the world a slightly better place by having lived in it."

Diana Mosley assures Sue Lawley that Adolf Hitler was "extraordinarily fascinating" and had mesmeric blue eyes. And Johnny Vegas tugs Kirsty Young's heart-strings with his account of a childhood so impoverished that family pets were fair game: "My dad had always claimed that rabbits were livestock, but we'd never eaten one before."

Desert Island Discs is much more than a radio programme. It is a unique and enduringly popular take on our lives and times - and this book tells in rich detail the colourful and absorbing story of an extraordinary institution.

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