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From Carol Channing to Franz Liszt.

Award-winning film actor and writer Sir Dirk Bogarde shares his castaway choices with Roy Plomley.

In the first of what were to become two appearances (the second was in 1989) Bogarde doesn鈥檛 think he could cope with the solitude and silence of being castaway.

The actor is a big fan of music and complains eight choices aren鈥檛 enough.

He made his London West End theatre-acting debut in 1939, after which he served in the British Army during the Second World War.

His film contract with the Rank Organisation in 1948 was the spark for his very successful career. Big screen highlights included: The Blue Lamp, The Servant and the Doctor films based on Richard Gordon鈥檚 novels.

In 1977 he embarked on a second career of several best-selling novels.

Bogarde was created a Knight Bachelor in 1992.

Born in 1921, he died aged 78 in 1999.

DISC ONE: Franz Liszt鈥檚 Consolation No. 3 in D flat major - Jorge Bolet
DISC TWO: Oscar Straus鈥檚 C'est la saison d'amour (from The Three Waltzes) - Yvonne Printemps
DISC THREE: Franz Liszt鈥檚 Piano Concerto No 1 in E Flat / Hungarian Fantasy - Jorge Bolet with Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor: Morris Stoloff
DISC FOUR: The Worst Kind of Man - Judy Garland & the Gordon Jenkins Orchestra
DISC FIVE: Franz Leh谩r鈥檚 Vilja (from The Merry Widow) - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf with Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus
DISC SIX: Symphony No. 5 in C minor - Columbia Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Bruno Walter
DISC SEVEN: Hello Dolly - Carol Channing
DISC EIGHT: I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face from My Fair Lady - Rex Harrison

BOOK CHOICE - The Swiss Family Robinson - Johann Wyss
LUXURY CHOICE - Conversation Piece by John Singer Sargent - a painting of the Sitwells
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE - Symphony No. 5 in C minor - Columbia Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Bruno Walter

Producer: Monica Chapman

First broadcast on the 麻豆约拍 麻豆约拍 Service in September 1964.

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