DESERT ISLAND DISCS REVISITED: LOST GEMS - SIR DIRK BOGARDE (320kbs-m4a/80mb/35mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 27th November 2022
From Carol Channing to Franz Liszt.
Award-winning film actor and writer Sir Dirk Bogarde shares his castaway choices with Roy Plomley.
In the first of what were to become two appearances (the second was in 1989) Bogarde doesn't think he could cope with the solitude and silence of being castaway.
The actor is a big fan of music and complains eight choices aren't enough.
He made his London West End theatre-acting debut in 1939, after which he served in the British Army during the Second World War.
His film contract with the Rank Organisation in 1948 was the spark for his very successful career. Big screen highlights included: The Blue Lamp, The Servant and the Doctor films based on Richard Gordon's novels.
In 1977 he embarked on a second career of several best-selling novels.
Bogarde was created a Knight Bachelor in 1992.
Born in 1921, he died aged 78 in 1999.
BOOK CHOICE - The Swiss Family Robinson - Johann Wyss
LUXURY CHOICE - Conversation Piece by John Singer Sargent - a painting of the Sitwells
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE - Symphony No. 5 in C minor - Columbia Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Bruno Walter
Producer: Monica Chapman
First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in September 1964.
Jorge Bolet - Franz Liszt's Consolation No. 3 In D Flat Major
Yvonne Printemps - Oscar Straus's C'est la saison d'amour (from The Three Waltzes)
Jorge Bolet with Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Conductor: Morris Stoloff - Franz Liszt's Piano Concerto No 1 In E Flat / Hungarian Fantasy
Judy Garland & The Gordon Jenkins Orchestra - The Worst Kind Of Man
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf with Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus - Franz Lehár's Vilja (from The Merry Widow)
Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Conductor: Bruno Walter - Symphony No. 5 In C Minor
Carol Channing - Hello Dolly
Rex Harrison - I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face (from My Fair Lady)
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