Tuning in…
Tuning in…
Castaway
1 appearance
The 11th Duke of Devonshire, owner of Chatsworth House in Derbyshire.
On the island
Eight records
Because our house in Ireland used to belong to Andrew's uncle, who was married to Frederisdau's sister Adele. And all her old records are there, and this one is one we play very often, and when as soon as I hear it, it takes me back to the sitting room at Lismore, in the south of Ireland.
Oh, I love Ethel Merman. I think she's the best of all entertainers. She yells it out. When she was in London I went every night to listen to her. I should really love to have that with me on an island.
Leonore Overture No. 3Favourite
Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Otto Klemperer
Over the years, I have got to like music more and more. And as I grow older, Tesco music gives me ever increasing pleasure. I must have been between forty-five and fifty. when I first discovered the joys Of opera? And Of all of the operas I've heard, Beethoven's Fidelio is the greatest It marks to me a turning point in The enjoyment of life.
Leontyne Price with the Choir of Men and Boys of St. Thomas's Episcopal Church
Well, it was my mother's favourite, and we had it for weddings and funerals and everything and anyway the words are so marvellous. Think of the saints casting down their golden crowns on the glassy sea.
When Somebody Thinks You're Wonderful
Nostalgia, I think, chiefly. On the desert island However diligent. One is one is bound to have a lot of time for thought. And one will have nostalgic thoughts about when one was young. And uh that's voila. In general, and this tune in particular reminds me of my carefree adolescent and undergraduate days.
La Boutique fantasque: Can-Can
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Antal Doráti
Well, when I was about sixteen, I was terribly keen on somebody who's to do with the ballet. And so what I'd love is a bit out of Rossini's Boutique Fontasque, please.
Well, again, partly nostalgia. part their admiration and partly the words of Unbekiarchis have got a social significance. There two artists of consummate skill Who would their crazy gang shows? gave pleasure before the war, during the war, and after the war to literally millions of people. They are perfectionists.
In conversation
Presenter asks
1:17Does music mean a lot in your lives? Do you play records a lot?
I always mean to, and then something else always crops up.
Presenter asks
6:20Where do you fit in by age [among the Mitford sisters]?
I'm the youngest.
Presenter asks
7:30Do you remember [the story about you proclaiming you were going to marry a duke]?
Well, if I really had, I wouldn't have married Andrew. Because he had an elder brother, and when we were married there was absolutely no question of him becoming a duke.
Presenter asks
12:18Which [independent ceremonies] in particular [did you help with]?
Well, I went to six different independent ceremonies in Africa, in the Caribbean. And in the Far East. They were. In a way they were sad, but they all followed the same pattern. It was on Independence Night, something like the Royal Tournament, and then came the very moving lowering of the Union Jack, and then the lights turned out. and then turned on again for the hoisting of the new flag. They were sort of bittersweet occasions and then inevitably followed fireworks. And uh one of the results of my four years in government, I never want to see another firework.
The keepsakes
No book or luxury recorded for this episode.
Presenter asks
15:36Where and when did you first meet the man who was to become the Duke?
In London, at a dinner party.
Presenter asks
16:35What did the house look like when you saw it again for the first time at the end of the war?
The girls were still here. I suppose it looked strange, but I hadn't lived here very much myself. My grandfather didn't die until nineteen thirty-eight. By farla Mother lived in a relatively small house five miles away. We would come here for Christmas and perhaps other visits. But it was never my home. My mother and father only lived in it for a short time. 'Cause they moved out when the war came in'39. So I say it had never been my home.