Tuning in…
Tuning in…
Castaway
1 appearance
Member of the British royal family by marriage to Prince Michael of Kent.
On the island
Eight records
Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104: I. Allegro
Mstislav Rostropovich, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Herbert von Karajan
I'm born in Bohemia and Dvorak of course is a Czech. And every person from my part of the world is is full of Welt Schmerz and and when I'm really, really depressed I play this because it takes me as deeply and as makes me as depressed as I possibly can and then I can only go up, I feel, after this. And it reminds me of my grandmother.
in honor of my mamma, not that she needs to be remembered, but a chardash from Fledermaus, because it'll be representative of the passion in my life, tempered, of course, by the sense of the Capricorn.
An undermilk wood was given to me when I was quite young in Sydney. And I didn't understand I didn't even know where Wales was, let alone anything about Dylan Thomas. But it taught me the beginnings of my love of English literature.
Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67: I. Allegro con brio
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Carlos Kleiber
This is uh largely due to my brother, who was my greatest musical influence, and probably the dearest, sweetest person other than my husband that I know, and he gave me this before I left for Mozambique. And I played da da da da throughout the jungle, and my father would scream that it would frighten away the buffalo and the elephants, but I didn't care, and it did.
Johann Strauss Orchestra of Vienna conducted by Willi Boskovsky
this is the Gold and Silver Waltz by Lehar with which we opened our wedding ball in Vienna.
Vienna taught me to love opera. I had a very small apartment around the corner from the opera house. ... And Itosuka is such a powerful love story. And as a very typical Central European, I like a good tragedy.
Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor: IV. Adagietto
Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Georg Solti
Venice has been a favourite bolt hole of my husband and mine. We were not actually there on our honeymoon we were in India and in Iran. But we very soon afterwards went to Venice, and we go there as often as we can, and so this will remind me of our very happy times in Venice.
Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major, K. 216Favourite
Anne-Sophie Mutter, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Herbert von Karajan
This happened to get stuck in our tape deck at our house in the country, and for about a month we heard nothing else but this tape. So I shall be reminded of our beautiful house and never of course forget our children, but I shall be reminded of the horses, the goats, the dogs, the cats, and all the sundry animals, the Cotswolds, hunting and the very private part of our lives.
In conversation
Presenter asks
0:35Could you endure loneliness?
Yes. I I think without any trouble at all. I don't think I get lonely. I I've spent a lot of time on my own in Africa and I like to be alone. I like my own company.
Presenter asks
0:52How much does music mean to you?
Well, a very great deal at certain times of the day. I like silence. I like to be quiet at some times. In Africa particularly, I learnt that I could only have music in the evenings, because that was the only time I could get the battery out of the lorry, so that I could play my my music then.
Presenter asks
5:05When your parents split up, you stayed with your mother. Why [did she go to] Australia?
Well, my mother was not only a historian by training, but she was also a great skier and she skied in the Thirty Six Olympics and at that time the only other people who seemed to be skiing were the British. So she had a lot of English friends who said after the war, you know, Austria's such a mess, why don't you come out to Australia and bring your two small children for a few years till Europe settles down a little bit? And she thought this was a good idea and they assured her there was very good skiing in Australia and so that's where we went.
The keepsakes
The book
Herodotus
I'm going to ask for the Histories of Herodotus, because I can read him again and again. ... He likes ... delicious little details which I absolutely love.
The luxury
Presenter asks
6:26When you left school, you left for Europe. That was to stay with your father?
No. My father had a farm in Africa, and I went to Africa. I was a little bit too young for university, and I thought, well, it's time to go and meet the father who I hadn't met before. So that was a a terrible shock in itself. to meet a very much older person who could have been my grandfather. But it was also an introduction to Africa, and Africa became a great love of my life.
Presenter asks
12:20You were a Roman Catholic and a divorcee, and a church wedding at that time wasn't possible [when you married Prince Michael of Kent]?
Well, we thought it would be possible. It certainly would have been possible in the Catholic Church, because after all my first marriage had been annulled by Pope Paul the Sixth. The problem arose in that Prince Michael could not have Catholic children. ... Our marriage was convalidated recently, as you know. And our children are very much remaining Anglican, and I very much wish to remain and shall remain a Catholic.
Presenter asks
26:57How resourceful would you be on a desert island? Could you build a hut?
Oh, yes.
“I'm emotional about music. I'm passionate about music. Um not mathematical about it.”
“I always wanted to do everything that I did as well as I possibly can. That's very Capricorn, I suppose so that I didn't have any particular ambition, I just wanted to do everything well.”
“I'm having a cap. Now, you didn't notice that I had a little cat in my pocket when I was rescued and landed on this desert island. You didn't see it, you didn't notice it. No, it was very quiet, it was very small.”