DESERT ISLAND DISCS REVISITED: FROM FRINGE TO FAME - RORY BREMNER (320kbs-m4a/100mb/43mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 24th August 2025
Satirist and impressionist Rory Bremner is castaway by Sue Lawley.
Rory was born in Edinburgh in 1961. A self-confessed show-off, he started doing impersonations at primary school, sending up teachers, sports commentators and Moira Anderson! Entertaining his school friends inevitably developed into performing on stage and he worked as a stand up on the comedy circuit, and notably at the Edinburgh Festival.
The BBC offered him his first TV series, Now Something Else. It ran on BBC2 for seven years. In 1993 he moved to Channel 4, where his show Rory Bremner - Who Else? developed a more hard-edged, satirical and political bite. Rory was also a regular on Spitting Image and Mock the Week.
An opera lover with an academic side to him, Rory has translated three operatic works into English.
In more recent years, Rory has been on Strictly, Who Do You Think You Are? The Imitation Game - not forgetting I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue.
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Van Morrison - Have I Told You Lately
BOOK CHOICE: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Edward Gibbon
LUXURY CHOICE: Radio
Producer: Miranda Birch
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2003.
The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards - Highland Cathedral
Danny Kaye - Masters Of All Masters
Brian Johnston & Jonathan Agnew - Test Match Special (9/8/1991)
Cologne Radio Orchestra, conducted by Jan Latham-Koenig - excerpt from Kurt Weill's The Silver Lake The Finale
Julie London - I'm In The Mood For Love
Frank Sinatra - I've Got You Under My Skin
Van Morrison - Have I Told You Lately
Kiri Te Kanawa - Georges Bizet's Je dis que rien ne m'épouvante (from Carmen)
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