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Bertice Reading

Roy Plomley's castaway is singer Bertice Reading.

Bertice Reading's career took off when she won a talent contest and for the prize sang with the Lionel Hampton Band for a week. Later, she started to act and was in the first production of Sandy Wilson's musical Valmouth. In both America and Europe she appeared in cabaret and musicals, and she was a great success here in the musical One Mo' Time.

In conversation with Roy Plomley, she talks about her career and chooses the eight records she would take to the mythical island.

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

Favourite track: The War of the Worlds - Epilogue by Jeff Wayne
Book: The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
Luxury: King-size, brass bed with a feather mattress

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40 minutes

Last on

Fri 13 Jan 1984 09:05
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4

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Music Played

  • Josef Strauss

    Delirien Waltzer

    Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor: Herbert von Karajan

  • Billie Holiday

    Crazy He Calls Me

    Artist: Gordon Jenkins and his Orchestra

  • Arlen/Mercer

    Come Rain Or Come Shine

    Soloist: Dinah Washington, Junior Mance

  • Kate Smith & Orchestra

    The Last Time I Saw Paris

  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Rafael

  • Barbra Streisand

    My Man

    • Funny Girl.

  • Castaway's Favourite

    • Jeff Wayne

      The War of the Worlds - Epilogue

  • Aram Khachaturian

    Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia (from Spartacus Suite No. 2)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor: Aram Khachaturian

  • Book Choice

    • The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran

  • Luxury Choice

    • King-size, brass bed with a feather mattress

Credits

Presenter Roy Plomley
Interviewed Guest Bertice Reading

Broadcasts

  • Sat 7 Jan 1984 18:25
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
  • Fri 13 Jan 1984 09:05
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4

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