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Dame Vera Lynn

Sue Lawley's castaway is singer Dame Vera Lynn.

As part of Radio 4's commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War, the castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs will be Dame Vera Lynn.

She'll be talking to Sue Lawley about her own wartime experiences - as the now-legendary 'forces sweetheart' she performed in front of servicemen as far away as Burma, and as close to home as London's Regent's Park, and since then she has been constantly in demand all over the world for her singing and her songs, reviving as they do wartime memories both happy and sad.

[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

Favourite track: Room 504 by Vera Lynn
Book: A book of edible fruits and vegetables
Luxury: Watercolour paints, brushes and paper

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40 minutes

Last on

Fri 8 Sep 1989 09:05
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4

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Music Played

  • Castaway's Favourite

    • Vera Lynn

      Room 504

      • The First Lullaby.
      • Decca.

  • Artie Shaw and His Orchestra

    A Man and his Dream

    • Artie Shaw and his Orchestra.
    • Everest.

  • Elaine Paige

    Memory

    • Cats.
    • Polydor.

  • The Beatles

    Til There Was You

    • With The Beatles.
    • Parlophone.

  • Where The Blue Of The Night

  • Samuel Barber

    Adagio For Strings

    Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra Conductor: Eugene Ormandy

    • Works by R. Strauss, etc..
    • EMI.

  • Ennio Morricone

    Chai Mai (from Maddalena & The Life and Times of David Lloyd-George)

    • Themes & Dreams.
    • Trax.

  • Vera Lynn

    Heart Of Gold

    Artist: Charlie Kunz & Casani Club Orchestra

  • Book Choice

    • A book of edible fruits and vegetables

  • Luxury Choice

    • Watercolour paints, brushes and paper

Credits

Presenter Sue Lawley
Interviewed Guest Vera Lynn

Broadcasts

  • Sun 3 Sep 1989 12:15
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
  • Fri 8 Sep 1989 09:05
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4

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