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Castaway
1 appearance
A lawyer and influential negotiator, known as the 'Mr Fixit' of British public life, serving on diverse bodies and resolving disputes from Rhodesia to TV techni
On the island
Eight records
Placido Domingo and Montserrat Caballé
La Boheme, I think, is an immensely happy opera. Not that it ends in tragedy, but the fact remains that it grips you from the very beginning.
Part of the final act of Káťa Kabanová
Elisabeth Söderström and Peter Dvorský
It's a remarkable warning against marriage because the mother in law is the cause of all the trouble, and when the poor daughter has drowned herself, she refuses even then to make any sympathetic noises.
Duet from the final scene of Il Trovatore
Jelena Obrastsova and Franco Bonisolli
It's an interesting opera. It's got a story of almost incredible idiocy. But on the other hand, it's got some wonderful resounding music. That's why I like it.
which is a splendid opera and has a great advantage of being an entertaining opera.
Damon Evans and the Glyndebourne Chorus
It's an extraordinary opera and a magnificent magnificent one. I mean, it's very moving. … it shows the blacks in the most dignified fashion and it gives you a better understanding of the problems of being black than almost anything else.
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Hildegard Behrens and Peter Hofmann
I think it is a very great opera. It's very not frequently played. I believe I'm right in saying it was Beethoven's only opera. And it's got some wonderful music in it.
Aria from Act 2 of La Traviata
It's an interesting story because it has provided me with a comparison I made on several times, that if you look at Boem and if you look at Traviata, you can see the necessity for a national health service in Treviata, The lady is suffering from the same consumption, I assume, as was Mimi, but she the doctor, you never get can get him off the stage.
London Symphony Chorus and Northern Sinfonia
I have a very, very strong feeling of gratitude to this country for the way in which they admitted my grandfathers and made sure that I was there to do the work you've been talking about. And that's why I rather like to play the Also there's the added reason that I haven't had any British musician so far, and this was composed by Dudova.
In conversation
Presenter asks
1:19Lord Goodman, you've spent your professional life rubbing shoulders with the powerful and the wealthy and the influential. Is it a world that naturally attracted you?
It's a world that I found interesting when I first came into it. But by now I'm afraid I'm a little blousy. But did you seek it? Is that what you wanted? No, I never sought it. I've never sought anything. Things have just come some agreeable, some less agreeable, but few disagreeable.
Presenter asks
2:48People have called you a fixer in your time. Do you think that's always a compliment?
No, I don't think it is. It suggests that one it's a man who goes about with five pound notes in his hand, handing them to people to just do things his way. No, I don't think it's a compliment.
Presenter asks
14:17Am I right in thinking that you enjoyed your life in the army rather more than you'd relished life at university?
I certainly enjoyed my life in the army because I discovered the human race, and in particular I discovered the English people, and what exceptionally nice people they were. … I enlisted as a gunner, and I ended up for some while as the battery quartermaster sergeant. With my friend Professor Gower, who joined the army at the same time, I think we had almost absolute power. It's the only time in my life when I felt that I had the power to do whatever I liked.
The keepsakes
The luxury
Presenter asks
22:51Tell me about your relationship with Harold Wilson. You often used to meet him, didn't you?
We had a very close relationship for a while, but not a political relationship. … we met very regularly. I mean, you were constantly in and out of Downing Street when he was primarily. In his day, yes, that's true. He he got all sorts of problems. You see, he presented any sort of problem to me.
Presenter asks
29:51Is it the source of much regret that you never married?
It's a source of much regret that I have never had any children. I think I don't know what would have happened if I'd married. I think for one reason or another I didn't. And. There were certainly some very agreeable possibilities that I turned my back on.
“It's a world that I found interesting when I first came into it. But by now I'm afraid I'm a little blousy. But did you seek it? Is that what you wanted? No, I never sought it. I've never sought anything. Things have just come some agreeable, some less agreeable, but few disagreeable.”
“No, I don't think it is. It suggests that one it's a man who goes about with five pound notes in his hand, handing them to people to just do things his way. No, I don't think it's a compliment.”
“I certainly enjoyed my life in the army because I discovered the human race, and in particular I discovered the English people, and what exceptionally nice people they were. … I enlisted as a gunner, and I ended up for some while as the battery quartermaster sergeant. With my friend Professor Gower, who joined the army at the same time, I think we had almost absolute power. It's the only time in my life when I felt that I had the power to do whatever I liked.”
“It's a source of much regret that I have never had any children. I think I don't know what would have happened if I'd married. I think for one reason or another I didn't. And. There were certainly some very agreeable possibilities that I turned my back on.”
“I think I regard as the achievement, if there is one, is having established a reputation. But for reliability and one's success to say this, and for integrity. I think integrity is perhaps more apt. It would be a it would be a dull epitaph, wouldn't it? He was a reliable man. It might be a dull epithet, but it'd be a very flattering one. And there weren't tr there wouldn't be a number a great number of candidates for it.”