Sandie Shaw
Guy Mitchell to The Beatles. Singer and psychotherapist Sandie Shaw shares her castaway choices with Kirsty Young. From 2010.
From Guy Mitchell to the Beatles.
Singer and psychotherapist, Sandie Shaw MBE shares her castaway choices with Kirsty Young.
With her melodic, velvety voice, bare feet and Sassoon bob, Sandie was the epitome of everything that was swinging about the 1960s.
She was just 17 when she first topped the charts with βAlways Something There to Remind Meβ and went on to become Britain's first Eurovision winner with Puppet on a String. Sandie loathed the song at the time, but more recently came to terms with it after recording a new version which is, she says, rather forlorn.
Along with the highs have been terrible lows - years that she calls her dark ages, when, without money or creative freedom, she felt hopeless. It was Buddhism that turned her fortunes around and became central to her life.
Now, Sandie says, she canβt believe the journey life has taken her on and she is preparing for a final flourish as a performer.
First broadcast on ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 in December 2010.
Last on
More episodes
Previous
Broadcasts
- Sun 3 May 2015 10:15ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra
- Sun 3 May 2015 21:15ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra
- Sun 2 Jun 2019 10:15ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra
- Sun 2 Jun 2019 21:15ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra
- Sun 30 May 2021 10:00ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra
- Sun 30 May 2021 21:00ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra
- Thu 3 Jun 2021 11:00ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra
- Thu 3 Jun 2021 21:00ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra
The Desert Island Discs podcast
Subscribe or download individual episodes.
Listen to over 2,000 programmes
Click above to browse castaways, from 1942 to today.
Articles
Read the surprising things we've learned about some stand-out castaways.