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Desert Island Discs

Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives.

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

Desert Island Discs: David Jason OBE

25/12/1994

David Jason OBE

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Sue Lawley's castaway is actor David Jason OBE

Sue Lawley's castaway is actor David Jason OBE.

The castaway on Desert Island Discs this week is one of Britain's best-loved actors, David Jason. He will be talking to Sue Lawley about the rocky route from his first job as an electrician, through Bromley Rep, summer seasons and pantos, to the moment he was spotted for a television show called Do Not Adjust Your Set. Some success followed this, but it was when the BBC offered him the part of Delboy in Only Fools and Horses, to be followed 10 years later by the avuncular Pop Larkin in The Darling Buds of May, that the nation took him to their hearts. He went on to win a BAFTA for his role in Porterhouse Blue, and, more recently, acclaim for his portrait of Inspector Frost.

[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] 

Favourite track: Help! by The Beatles
Book: The Complete Boatbuilder's Book
Luxury: A complete carpenter's toolbox

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