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Desert Island Discs Revisited: Lost Gems: Stanley Holloway OBE

Stanley Holloway OBE

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BBC Radio 4 Extra - Desert Island Discs Revisited, Lost Gems, Stanley Holloway OBE

Actor Stanley Holloway shares his castaway choices.

From Arthur Young to Maurice Ravel. Actor and funny man Stanley Holloway shares his castaway choices with Roy Plomley. From 1975.

From Arthur Young to Maurice Ravel. 

Actor Stanley Holloway shares his castaway choices with Roy Plomley

Born in East London, Stanley became a stage and cinema stalwart, best known on screen for My Fair Lady, Brief Encounter, Passport To Pimlico, The Titfield Thunderbolt and The Lavender Hill Mob.

It was playing Eliza Doolittle's father Alfred in the original Broadway (1956) and London (1958) productions of My Fair Lady that won him the 1964 film role which brought Stanley international fame.

He was awarded an OBE in 1960.  

Stanley Holloway died aged 91 in 1982.

DISC ONE: Bach Goes To Town - Arthur Young
DISC TWO: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Farewell, said he, Minnehaha (from Hiawatha) - Royal Choir Society Orchestra: Philharmonia
DISC THREE: The Old Superb - Peter Dawson
DISC FOUR: Wouldn't It Be Loverly? - André Previn and his Quartet
DISC FIVE: Elgar’s Chanson de matin Op.15`2 - London Philharmonic Orchestra
DISC SIX: And This Is My Beloved - Doretta Morrow
DISC SEVEN: Ravel’s Pavane pour une infante défunte - Cleveland Orchestra, conductor: George Szell
Orchestra: 
DISC EIGHT: Felix Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night's Dream Overture - Benno Moiseiwitsch

BOOK CHOICE - A book on the musical plays of the last century 
LUXURY CHOICE - Manicure and pedicure set 
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE - And This Is My Beloved - Doretta Morrow

Producer: Ronald Cook

Desert Island Discs was created by Roy Plomley.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1975.

Desert Island Discs Revisited: Lost Gems

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