Desert Island Discs Revisited: Longplay - Sir Michael Caine

DESERT ISLAND DISCS REVISITED: LONGPLAY - SIR MICHAEL CAINE (320kbs-m4a/134mb/58mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 12th March 2023

Sir Michael Caine shares his castaway choices with Kirsty Young in Desert Island Discs Long-play, an extended edition of the programme first broadcast on Radio 4.

In a film career that has, so far, spanned more than four decades, Sir Michael Caine has won two Oscars and his credits include Alfie, The Italian Job, Hannah and her Sisters and Educating Rita.

As well as discussing his remarkable life in films, he describes how the Queen used to cut through his back garden on her way to the horse races, discusses the secrets of a happy marriage, and reveals the tricks for cooking perfect roast potatoes this Christmas.

BOOK CHOICE: The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
LUXURY CHOICE: A large bed with fifty per cent goose down and fifty per cent feather pillows.
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: My Way - Frank Sinatra

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra in December 2011.

Coldplay - Viva La Vida
Elbow - One Day Like This
London Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor: Sir Charles Mackerras - Edward Elgar's Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36: Variation IX "Nimrod"
Chicane - No Ordinary Morning
Bent - Swollen
Phyllis Nelson - Move Closer
Frank Sinatra - My Way
John Lennon & The Plastic Ono Band - Happy Christmas (War Is Over)