My desert island choices…

Desert Island Discs is a BBC radio show in which a celebrity is asked to name the eight records he or she would like to have if cast away on a desert island. The subject also gets to pick one book and one luxury. I appeared on this show in December 2001. Here are my choices:

Myfanwy sung by the Treorchy Male Voice Choir
What Did I Say by Ray Charles
Good Day Sunshine by the Beatles
My Cherie Amour by Stevie Wonder
Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrica, the South African national anthem, from the soundtrack of the film Cry Freedom
Mozart’s Violin Concerto No.3 in G major, played by Anne-Sophie Mutter and the Berlin Philharmonic
La Grenouillere by Poulenc, sung by Felicity Lott
Hoochie Coochie Man written by Willie Dixon and performed by Damn Right I Got the Blues

Book: Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Luxury: An unlimited supply of fine French wine

Download Hoochie Coochie Man as an MP3 file (160 kbps, 8.3 MB), made available for download by kind permission of Don't Quit Your Day Job Records. The Stranger than Fiction double CD is available from both DQYDJ and Amazon.com.

Hoochie Coochie Man. 6:35 minutes. Willie Dixon/Hoochie Coochie Music/BMI – additional lyrics by Ken Follett. Damn Right I Got the Blues – Ken Follett (lead vocal, bass, acoustic guitar, additional lyrics); Graham Coster (harmonica); Richard Gillinson (Yamaha clavinova); Antony Harwood (slide guitar); Cefyn Jones (drums); background vocals by Graham Coster, Marie-Claire Follett, Richard Gillinson and Cefyn Jones.