Julie Andrews on BBC Radio's "Desert Island Discs" (1992)
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- Julie Andrews on BBC Radio's "Desert Island Discs" (1992)
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First Aired: 18 Oct 1992
Host: Sue Lawley'
The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is Julie Andrews, the star of such film favourites as Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music. Julie Andrews discovered she had an unusual talent for singing quite early and first appeared on stage alongside her step-father and her mother in their act, touring the Variety theatres of Great Britain in the 1940s and early 1950s. She had an enormous hit in a show at the London Hippodrome Theatre when she was just a teenager, and then appeared regularly on Educating Archie, one of radio's biggest programmes in the 1950s.
But it was appearing on Broadway that led her to being cast in the stage version of My Fair Lady, with Rex Harrison that really began to establish her as an international star, and then her first movie role, as Mary Poppins, which won her an Oscar that brought her to the attention of millions worldwide.
[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]
Favourite track: Piano Concerto in G by Maurice Ravel
Book: The Once and Future King by T H White
Luxury: Piano
Source: www.bbc.co.uk/...
Spotify playlist (what I could find anyway): open.spotify.c...
Julie is so talented and this is a wonderful interview... Thank you for all the great moments Julie
❤️ Thank You ❤️
Excellent interview.
Enjoyable interview.
Lovely music choices.
Interesting career.
I wonder what she would think of England now, 30 years on? 😢
Thanks. I'm surprised she didn't name Ravel's "Daphnis and Chloe," which was a favourite of hers and Tony Walton.
I can only speak for myself, but “favorite piece of music” changes with age and life in general.
Especially classical pieces. The emotions connected with them seem stronger than with your regular pop song.
She did this program a couple of times I think?
twice. but i can't find a record of the other one, except for a list of the music she chose and the book she liked at the time ("The Once and Future King", obviously).
No Deiius ?????????????
Roy Plomley was excellent in this programme that he created, then Michael Parkinson not quite as good, and then came Sue Lawley who completeley ruined it, being a busybody journalist. She had her own agenda, celebrating herself more than the guests that she interviewed. Then came Kirsty Young, who also wasn't too bad allowing people to express themselves, more empathetic towards the guests.
I know a lot of people didn't like Sue in the post (nobody could match RP, of course), and she certainly did some Lulus (to Neil Kinnock: people say your wife is more intelligent than you ...), but I think here, she makes it an interesting programme. (Of couse Julie's is an interesting story.)
Plumley and Lawley were my favourites...