Tuning in…
Tuning in…
Castaway
1 appearance
Journalist who broke the news of the Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939 and named Kim Philby as the third man.
On the island
Eight records
A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
used to be played in the inner s square of Shepherd's Hotel every night, where they had a dinner dance. This is in Cairo.
North West German Radio Choir and Orchestra
I should like to hear it would remind me of those days ... It's not my favourite tune because I'm not I didn't feel very pro-German, but it does bring back terrific members.
Glenn Miller and His Orchestra
will remind me of The Baltimores. And car. As so many of these dance tunes do.
that is one of the tunes that brings back into my mind the life in Roumania.
Choir and Orchestra of the Capitole de Toulouse, conducted by Michel Plasson
It's got so many memories, but strangely enough, the most important one is in Algers.
The East Is Red
I remember f hearing first, I suppose it was in In 197 when I went into Peking from Hong Kong with the first ambassadors, Sir John Ardis.
Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D. 759 "Unfinished"Favourite
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Malcolm Sargent
I recall this as one of my favorite pieces of classical music. And I associate it with Sir Edward Heath's eightieth birthday. where I attended one of the best concerts of my life. In Salisbury Cathedral.
London Symphony Chorus and Northern Sinfonia, conducted by Richard Hickox
It's very very much the hymn of my childhood. I don't think my father was a very good pianist, but he could play Land of Hope and Glory and frequently did.
In conversation
Presenter asks
1:17You obviously find danger stimulating, Claire. You have a certain relish for danger, don't you?
Yes. I I suppose in a kind of way I enjoy it. ... I enjoy being in a plane that's bombing something. or being on the ground in the desert when they're advancing. I'm terribly interested in war in strategy and in tactics as well.
Presenter asks
5:00How did you discover that the Nazis were about to roll in [to Poland]?
I was driving back along a valley, and there was Hessian screen up, so you couldn't look down into the valley, and suddenly there was a great gust of wind, which blew the Hessian sacking from its moorings, and I looked down into the valley and saw scores if not hundreds of tanks.
Presenter asks
8:38What are the origins of that interest [in war], do you think, in you?
when we were small children my father used to take us to the Battle of Bosworth Field and when I was very small in World War One we lived on a farm near Charnwood Forest and I used to hear every day people talking about the war and I remember towards the end of the war seeing Germans fly over and bomb Loughborough ... I did become extremely interested in warfare.
The keepsakes
The luxury
Unlimited quantities of good hard paper and pens with thick nibs
My first thought was Champagne and Cavier Unlimited. ... But I think my real thing would be unlimited quantities of good hard paper and unlimited quantities of pens with thick nibs.
Presenter asks
19:41In Algiers in nineteen sixty two, despite your diminutive stature, I'm told that you took on in the Aletti Hotel one evening the murderous and ruthless OAS. Tell me what happened.
John Got hold of him and said, How can we stop him? And so I said, Let's all go with him because they can't. Puts us all in prison. They can't murder us all, so we'll all go with him. And that saved him. ... I did say I hadn't got any obviously I hadn't got any gun. But I said if you take this man away further, I shall hit you over the head with my shoe.
Presenter asks
30:47How do you think that you will cope on a desert island? Because you will be necessarily, I would have thought, confined to a few square miles and no news from the outside.
Well, I don't think I should enjoy it. I suppose if there's nothing else to do, one would just have to obviously accept it. One wouldn't commit suicide. ... I could sleep perfectly well, yes. But uh um it would be difficult. I suppose there'd be some vegetables around to eat. I don't know how quite how I'd make out, but I should try.
“I'm terribly interested in war in strategy and in tactics as well. But there's no thought for your own life in those moments.”
“Personally, I still like to be at the press conference. I like to smell the breezes that you can't get from the computer.”
“My eyesight is not only not as good as it was. I can't read anything le except headlines.”