Barry Humphries
Kirsty Young's castaway is the comedian and performer Barry Humphries.
Kirsty Young's castaway is the comedian and performer Barry Humphries. For decades he has enjoyed global fame with his grotesque comic creations, the Melbourne housewife Dame Edna Everage and the drunken cultural attache Sir Les Patterson. Off stage, though, his life has been spent immersed in literature, music and the arts, and he says that his time spent on the desert island would allow him to devote himself to painting.
[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]
Favourite track: Songs of Sunset: They are not long, the weeping & the laughter by Frederick Delius
Book: The Melbourne Street Directory
Luxury: My paints.
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Richard Strauss
Mir ist die Ehre widerfahren (from Der Rosenkavalier)
Soloist: Anne Sofie Von Otter & Barbara Hendricks
- Der Rosenkavalier.
- EMI.
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Fred Astaire
Things are Looking up
- Crazy for Gershwin.
- Memoir.
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Josef Suk
Love Song
Soloist: Ruggiero Ricci & Noriko Shiozaki
- Hidden Treasures.
- Dynamic.
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Randolph Sutton
On Mother Kelly's Doorstep
- On Mother Kelly鈥檚 Doorstep.
- Ace of Clubs.
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Franz Schubert
Der Leiermann (The Organgrinder)( from Winterreise)
Soloist: Peter Anders with Michael Raucheisen
- 1945 Schubert: Winterreise.
- DG.
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Francis Poulenc
Flute Sonata - 2nd movement
Soloist: Patrick Gallois
- French Flute Music.
- Naxos.
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Mischa Spoliansky
Auf Wiedersehen
Artist: Felix Joachimson
- So Rare 3 Barry Humphries from the Bill Armstrong Collection..
- Bilarm.
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Castaway's Favourite
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Frederick Delius
They are not long, the weeping and the laughter (from Songs of Sunset)
Soloist: Nancy Evans, Redvers Llewellyn Choir: 成人快手 Chorus Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor: Sir Thomas Beecham
- Beecham collection: Delius.
- Somm-Beecham.
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Book Choice
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The Melbourne Street Directory
Luxury Choice
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My paints
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Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Presenter | Kirsty Young |
Interviewed Guest | Barry Humphries |
Broadcasts
- Sun 24 May 2009 10:00成人快手 Radio 4 LW
- Sun 24 May 2009 11:15成人快手 Radio 4 FM
- Fri 29 May 2009 09:00成人快手 Radio 4
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