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Oh there are riches here!

It can be found here. And very illuminating it is too.

The desert island big three are Beethoven, Mozart & Bach.

Most popular piece - Beethoven Symphony No 9 (Choral)

Most requested composer - Mozart

Most entries in top 8 - Beethoven (4 entries).

Kathy Burke and Johnny Vegas as recent highlights.

If I remember rightly, he picked his own records...

the podcasts to download to iTunes. They just open in a new window and play even when I click on "Download to keep". Any ideas why? Am I doing something wrong? I'm using a Macbook if that's an issue.

...of teaching a grandmother to suck eggs, fopeyducker. If so, apologies. In iTunes, go into the store and search for DID. It should come up with the podcasts under DID with Kirstie Y. Click subscribe free and it should provide a list of podcasts. Click 'get' for the podcast you want and then it should download into iTunes under podcasts. Works here on a Mac...

Cheers Stevie - several downloading as I type!

the weekly DID podcasts anyway. Itunes only shows 23 episodes available... Thanks all the same.

I've downloaded a few that look interesting, but it's not always the people you think. As above, I can't recommend the recent Betty Driver one highly enough - must have been a windy day on the way to work that morning as I got something in my eye

.....Billy Connolly, Charlie Watts, David Gilmour...........all pretty good. But isnt Sue Lawley awful?? Thank god for Kirsty Young. Listen to the Jarvis Cocker episode where Lawley is interviewing him and being very rude, I thought. And for the Billy Connolly one she wouldnt stop talking.

Much prefer the episodes presented by Kirsty. She is far more relaxed and lets the guests talk.

....that Kirsty is much better than Sue.

I've recently listened to Andy Kershaw, Clive James and Colin Montgomerie. They're all good(interesting) in different ways but so far, Andy Kershaw's is my favourite. He came across as funny and enthusiastic and he chose songs that I like.

Both excellent & with a memorable mix of poignancy and laugh out loud moments (particularly CDW).

Rolf Harris - very moving, and a different approach to the music
Nicola Horlick - not what you might expect
Karen Brady - exactly what you would expect, but extraordinary nonetheless

DID with Tony Adams - superb edition.

Highlights so far for me include:

Bob Monkhouse - Very thoughtful and touching, particularly when talking about his relationship with his son Gary.

Paul Whitehouse - Very funny

I also enjoyed Emma Thompson, Nick Hornby, Ronnie Corbett (the pause when he collects himself after recounting the last time he worked with Ronnie B - very moving), Steve Coogan and Nicholas Parsons.

Got to agree with the majority though - Kirsty Young over Sue Lawley every time.

There goes a hundred hours of my life. Mind you, 100 hours of dull sat in the office life, so y'know swings and roundabouts!

Listened to a load last week and guess will keep on next week.

Agree with Jack, thought the Tony Adams one was 'blinding'.

Just listened to my first couple with Sue Lawley. I knew Kirsty was good, in a very clever understated way, and then you hear the school headmistress hectoring her naughty pupils... Another vote for Kirsty. Of course there's that voice and accent... Sigh...

Anyone manage more than about 8 words before yelling 'fuckofffffff' and hitting the stop button?

Kirsty is miles better than Sue IMHO.

I'm making my way through these slowly, the best thing in the radio archives in my view.

The Dirk Bogarde one is great but as ever with Dirk quite melancholy.

He's always just said what he thinks and tells a great story about the time they showed Death in Venice to Hollywood producers.

there was deathly silence after the screening then one Mr Greenbaum got up and said 'Well, I love the music. Who did the soundtrack?"

"It's by Gustave Mahler" said Visconti, knowing all was lost.

"Well, we should definitely sign him."

Brilliant stuff from a bygone Hollywood era (it's at times like listening to the ghost of an Edwardian gentleman) and one of the few interviews where Sue Lawley seems to be quite warm & respectful.