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Brigadier Peter Young

Roy Plomley's castaway is military historian Brigadier Peter Young.

Favourite track: Les Huguenots by Giacomo Meyerbeer
Book: Large Blank Book With Pencils
Luxury: Ton of treasure, dated about 1642

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Mon 4 Apr 1977 12:25
BBC Radio 4

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Music Played

  • Recording Of A Hoolock Gibbon, London Zoo

  • Castaway's Favourite

    • Giacomo Meyerbeer

      Les Huguenots

      Orchestra: Brigade Of Guards Massed Bands

  • Lale Andersen

    Lilli Marlene

  • George Frideric Handel

    Water Music

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra Conductor: Raymond Leppard

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Pa-Pa-Pa-Papagena (from The Magic Flute)

    Soloist: Lisa Otto, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor: Karl Böhm

  • Carmen Prietto, Dennis Noble

    Were I Laid On Greenland's Coast

  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Che farò senza Euridice (What is Life?) (from Orpheus and Euridice)

    Soloist: Kathleen Ferrier Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Malcolm Sargent

  • Maurice Ravel

    Bolero

    Orchestra: Pais Orchestra Conductor: Jean Martinon

  • Book Choice

    • Large Blank Book With Pencils

  • Luxury Choice

    • Ton of treasure, dated about 1642

Credits

Presenter Roy Plomley
Interviewed Guest Brigadier Peter Young

Broadcasts

  • Sat 2 Apr 1977 19:00
    BBC Radio 4
  • Mon 4 Apr 1977 12:25
    BBC Radio 4

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