Your Desert Island Discs

[PandaChai]

Desert Island Discs is a BBC Radio programme that has been airing weekly since 1942 in which guests must imagine themselves stranded on a desert island with only eight chosen audio recordings (usually music, but speeches and the like are also allowed), the Holy Bible (or equivalent religious text), the Complete Works of Shakespeare, a third book of their choosing, and a special luxury (which must be inanimate and in no way be used to contact the outside world). At the end, they must choose a single recording to "save from the waves".

Almost anyone who's anyone has been on the show from Bing Cosby to Stephen Fry and all and sundry in-between. The most popular recordings have been (including single movements) Händel's Messiah, Bach’s St Matthew Passion, and Louis Armstrong’s Wonderful World, whilst popular artists regardless of song include The Beatles, Bob Dylan, and Frank Sinatra. Among the most popular books has been Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time), Tolstoy’s War and Peace and Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. Lastly, popular luxuries have been paper (and writing materials), a piano, and a guitar.

So, kiwis, what are your picks? (Hopefully this copy+pastes properly for posters)

1. Track 1
2. Track 2
3. Track 3
4. Track 4
5. Track 5
6. Track 6
7. Track 7
8. Track 8 ← saved from the waves
9. Book
10. Luxury

Spoiler: My Own Picks

1. Händel's I Know That My Redeemer Liveth from Messiah
   
2. Orff's Ecce Gratum from Carmina Burana
   
3. Gilbert & Sullivan's With Aspect Stern And Gloomy Stride (Act 1 Finale) from The Mikado
   
4. Duke Uke's Spider Suite
   
5. Paul Romero's Garrote Gorge from Might and Magic VIII
   
6. Kate Rusby's My Young Man
   
7. Tori Amos' Garlands
   
8. Tallis' Spem In Alium ← saved from the waves
   
9. Du Maurier's The House on the Strand
10. A pile of good down pillows

 

[Daddy's Angry Juice]

Just the entirety of Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti

 

[Ged!]

I can't imagine many desert islands have electricity or a stereo set.

Just give me a copy of The Odyssey and I'll be fine.

 

[Rembrandt]

I want to know what a stereotypical Tiktoker would offer to the table

 

[PandaChai]

I can't imagine many desert islands have electricity or a stereo set.

Just give me a copy of The Odyssey and I'll be fine.

The original concept was that they were gramophone records, with a hand-cranked gramophone to play them on

 

[KittyGremlin]

Post #6 and we still haven't mentioned Geno Samuels documentary. Shame on you all.

 

[Uncle Sid]

Presumably, 8 recordings of different local bird calls so that I could catch and eat the fuckers more easily.

 

[PovertySprocket]

8. ← saved from the waves
9. An old box of playboys from the 80's
10. One of those huge old timey barrel of wine.