DESERT ISLAND DISCS REVISITED: COMIC CASTAWAYS - WHOOPI GOLDBERG (320kbs-m4a/98mb/43mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 10th January 2021
The actor, comic and producer Whoopi Goldberg joins Kirsty Young on Desert Island Discs.
As a child, Whoopi used to practise the acceptance speeches she was sure she would one day make - little surprise then that she's one of a handful of people to have won an Oscar, a Grammy, a Tony and Emmy awards.
Record: 'Lovely Day' by Bill Withers
Book: 'Letters to a Young Poet' by Raine Maria Rilke
Luxury: Wise Potato Chips
Produced by Leanne Buckle
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2009.
Bill Withers - Lovely Day [Virgin]
Van Morrison - Jackie Wilson Said (I'm In Heaven When You Smile) [Polydor]
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Shamas-Ud-Doha [Real World]
Judy Collins - Who Knows Where The Time Goes? [Elektra]
Stevie Wonder - Superstition [Universal Music]
Celia Cruz - Quimbara [Nascente]
Amy Winehouse - Me & Mr Jones [Universal Republic]
Joan Sutherland/Jane Berbié - The Flower Duet [Decca]
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