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Radio 4 Extra,22 Dec 2024,45 mins

Series Absent Friends 2024

June Spencer

Desert Island Discs Revisited

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Kirsty Young's castaway is actress June Spencer. She is one of the best-loved matriarchs in broadcasting. As Peggy Woolley in The Archers, she's the only original member of the cast still in the show. It's 60 years this spring since the pilot episodes were first broadcast and, although she is now aged 90, June has no plans to retire. She says, 'It's a great bonus for me that The Archers has run as long as it has, and I've gone along with it.' DISC ONE: Fred Astaire - Let's Face The Music And Dance DISC TWO: Nelson Eddy - I Passed by Your Window DISC THREE: Andrei Gavrilov - Frédéric Chopin’s Revolutionary Study DISC FOUR: Northern Sinfonia Orchestra, conducted by Jean-Bernard Pommier - Claude Debussy’s En bateau (from Petite suite) DISC FIVE: John Williams - Concierto De Aranjuez DISC SIX: Harry Secombe - Giacomo Puccini’s E Lucevan Le Stelle (from Tosca) DISC SEVEN: The Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leonard Slatkin - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Overture to The Sleeping Beauty DISC EIGHT: Winchester Cathedral Choir - George Frideric Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus (from Messiah) CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: John Williams - Concierto De Aranjuez BOOK CHOICE: Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K Jerome LUXURY CHOICE: A Scrabble board Producer: Isabel Sargent First broadcast on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 in January 2010.

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  1. Track
    Artist
  2. 1.
    Let's Face The Music And Dance
    Let's Face The Music And Dance
    Fred Astaire
  3. 2.
    I Passed by Your Window
    I Passed by Your Window
    Nelson Eddy
  4. 3.
    Revolutionary Study
    Revolutionary Study
    Frédéric Chopin