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Naive question about Desert Island Discs
Posted by Stephen Merrick on 11 January 2012 - 1:18pm.
I'm late to the party here, but I've only just begun to get into the vast Desert Island Discs archive available to download. It's possibly the most perfect radio format ever conceived.
But I think I have come up with what might possibly be the most naive question about the show: do the guests get paid to go on it? I would love to imagine they do it for the love of the format and for sharing a little bit of their musical passion... but I suspect I am wrong...
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It's seen as a privilige to be invited.
It is also
a good promotional opportunity for whatever they have out at the time - a bit of profile
I
feel better.
Love it even more now.
in the old days
when it was Roy Plumbley in charge the interviewee was taken out forr a decent lunch but that was it.
Who was the opera diva
who picked 8 records by herself ?
Think it was in the Sue Lawley years.
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf...
...picked seven of her own records in 1958.
That Sue Lawley...
...she's older than she looks.
I thought
wrong.
Hey, and I admit it !
Sainthood beckons.
That's probably it
..
Another possibly naive question re DID
I catch it sometimes but not often enough to know if they'll offer the complete works of Shakespeare and more relevantly, a copy of the bible to the likes of Rabbi Lionel Blue, Richard Dawkins or Abu Hamza.
Wikipedia is your friend...
"they are automatically given the Complete Works of Shakespeare and either the Bible or another appropriate religious or philosophical work."