I wonder how many of us would love to be on DID!
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Not me (?DIDN'T?) Just eight discs?!Originally posted by pastoralguy View Post
I'd have difficulty chosing just eight recordings of the Eroica!
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Should castaways be forced to have The Bible and the complete works of Shakespeare?Comment
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Indeed - I raised this question on another thread when Lauren Laverne blithlely told him, a Hindu by birth, that he would be getting thre Bible - he politely indicated he wouldn't want it.Originally posted by Wychwood View PostComment
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If he wanted to be polite, he needn't have indicated that he didn't want it.Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View Post
One would hope that if someone who was born a Christian, found themselves on a time-honoured Indian radio programme where the tradition was to give a copy of the Vedas at the end, they would not be so churlish as to point out they had no need of it. It's about manners, not religion.Comment
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He didn't actually say he "didn't want it". He said, "I would prefer the Mahabharata … which is …" It didn't sound churlish.It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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No indeed, he deflected it very charmingly, not churlish at all (you needed to have heard it, Beef, I was paraphrasing, my bad) - but I did find myself querying the assumption on the part of the programme that the Bible would be appropriate. Didn't it occur to the producers? I do remember another, Anglo Saxon, guest (it might even have been John Fowles, I didn't listen that often), when Roy Plomley said "...leaving aside the Bible and Shakespeare..." saying "I left those aside a long time ago".....Originally posted by french frank View PostComment
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I don't think it a big deal. A guest goes on DID and at the end in (s)he gets a Bible and the complete works of Shakespeare in a rather antiquated and largely irrelevant way. So what? Shakespeare went over my head years ago, and I left the Bible behind even longer ago!Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View PostComment
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That was how it struck me, hearing it for the first time an hour ago.Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View PostIt isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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I wish I could remember if guests of the Jewish or Islamic persuasions are offered their respective holy text. That bit is a rather quaint hangover from a time when a lot of guests might have chosen the Bible or Shakespeare if it wasn't a given, which would have made for rather a dull programme. The format was "owned" by Plomley in his lifetime and copyright passed to his wife Diana Wong when he died, and making such radical changes as what book people were allowed may not have been possibleOriginally posted by Beef Oven! View Post .
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I can remember one castaway (can't recall the name, but it was a woman) saying she 'wouldn't need' any book other than the Bible and the Complete Works.
I'm sure anyone not wishing to consult those two volumes could find another, practical use for them.
Over the years, several castaways have clearly been uninterested in music - C.P. Snow springs to mind, and he was honest enough to admit as much. The worst castaway ever was Will Carling, imo. His taste in music was utterly dreadful.Comment
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Then there was Harvey Smith who said he had never read a book in his life and didn’t intend to do so!Comment
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