Desert Island Discs

[ferlew]

Anyone hear it this morning (Gness?) it was Stephen Fry.
Quite an eclectic mix of music, and some of his disclosures took me by surprise.
(Not in a bad way).

[Svejk]

Nice bit of Wagner.

[Zacs-Master]

Link here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05zg6ng

[agchristie]

//Nice bit of Wagner//

Surely not the Wagner who was on X factor? :)

[jourdain2]

I'm a bit lost here. I listened this morning and it was Dr. Bill Frankland (103 yrs. young) Japanese P.O.W. , allergy specialist and absolutely fascinating. I thought Mr. Fry. was earlier. It definitely was not him on my wireless today!

I know E. Yorks is happily old-fashioned, but this seems a bit extreme.

[Svejk]

I listened to the S. Fry one this evening, jourdain. I presumed it was repeated from this morning. R4e.

[ferlew]

Sorry, yes. I think I was listening to R4 extra.

[ferlew]

LOL Jourdain, we are not 'so' old fashioned, we have a radio. (Not a wireless) :)

[VHG]

Looks like he was originally on in June 2015.

Not sure what disclosures you mean, but he did have a very troubled upbringing and admits to stealing an old age pensioners pension, and also stealing a credit card and using it to stay in a hotel.

He was sent to a young offenders institute, but due to influential friends he was let out and then went to Cambridge university.

It does make you wonder if he had been a lad off a council estate and did not have these influential friends where his life would have finished up.

It is who you know.........

[Bazile]

^^^^

And also just think - he would not have played Jeeves , in Jeeves & Wooster