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Eight tracks, a book and a luxury: what would you take to a desert island? Guests share the soundtrack of their lives.

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Desert Island Discs: Terry Gilliam

10/04/2011

BBC Radio 4 - Desert Island Discs, Terry Gilliam

Film director Terry Gilliam joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs.

Animator and film director Terry Gilliam joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs.

Kirsty Young's castaway is the animator and director Terry Gilliam. 
He first planted his foot-print on our cultural landscape more than thirty years ago - back then, it was a huge, animated foot which squashed everything beneath it and became one of the defining images of Monty Python's Flying Circus. 
In the years since, his film credits have included Brazil, Twelve Monkeys and The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus. Now aged 70, he's directing his first opera. He says: "I've always liked the extremes, the edges. I like to know where the cliff is, but you only find out by stepping off."
Record: Ein Heldenleben 
Book: Dictionary 
Luxury: A mirror 
Producer: Leanne Buckle.

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