DESERT ISLAND DISCS REVISITED: LOST GEMS - SIR DAVID PARADINE FROST OBE (320kbs-m4a/66mb/29mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 6th November 2022
From Alan Bennett to Edith Piaf.
Broadcaster David Frost shares his castaway choices with Roy Plomley.
In 1963, David was heading towards media superstardom as the presenter of BBC TV's ground-breaking satire series, That Was The Week That Was.
Famously covering the Profumo Affair, it was devised by Ned Sherrin, with regulars including Bernard Levin, Willie Rushton, Millicent Martin and Roy Kinnear.
David's career spanned journalism and comedy writing - from The Frost Report to Frost on Sunday and TV-AM. He garnered international attention with his revealing interview with former US President Richard Nixon in 1977.
He was knighted in 1993.
BOOK CHOICE - The collected works by Geoffrey Chaucer
LUXURY CHOICE - Potato crisps
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE - Non, je ne regrette rien by Edith Piaf
Producer: Monica Chapman
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in April 1963.
Ballarat City Choir - The Old Rugged Cross
Georges Delerue - Charlie
Alan Bennett - Aftermyth Of War
Millicent Martin And Others - That Was The Week That Was
The Oscar Peterson Trio - Just In Time
Helen Shapiro - St Louis Blues
Joanie Sommers - Everything I've Got
Edith Piaf - Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien
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