Tuning in…
Tuning in…
Castaway
1 appearance
An explorer best known for leading the first vehicle crossing of South America at its widest point.
On the island
Eight records
Louis Armstrong and Velma Middleton
one that I have sung at the top of my voice in places where nobody else could hear me.
Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5Favourite
This to me is the most evocative Indian music that I know.
Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K. 467
London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Uri Segal
Going back to the the new era of learning to appreciate a bit of classical music, I'm still in the what Godfrey Smith so properly calls the tingle quotient phase of finding the tune, I suppose, in classical music and beginning to appreciate the rest through that.
Well, this is, I believe, the sexiest record ever made.
Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26
Kyung Wha Chung with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Rudolf Kempe
another of my tingle quotient records
produced by my son in law, Hugh Padgeam, who married my daughter this June. So you're getting interested now in the music of the younger generation? It's classical music that I'm getting interested in, but I've always loved pop records and this was a particular favorite last year.
Los Calchakis with Guillermo de la Roca
some Indian flute music, which is very evocative music from the Andes... I find it exciting because I think it's an old Inca melody and therefore gives us a link with music from a different era, different culture altogether.
In conversation
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2:38Do you come from a large family?
Yes, there are five of us, all much older than me, the brothers and sisters.
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3:18What did you think you were destined for [after Eton]?
With a good deal of gloom. The army was what I was told as a younger son I was likely to be.
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6:19What did you read [at Oxford]?
I read philosophy most. I chopped and changed quite a bit. And uh I didn't actually, if the truth be told, read a great deal. I enjoyed myself at Oxford and met interesting people.
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15:14On your own, what are the hazards? Accident, of course, disease, hostile Indians? What have you got to keep looking out for most of the time?
I think your own personal determination to keep going is the most important thing. And that covers all the other problems really. Disease being largely psychosomatic, you don't get ill if you can't. I believe this quite firmly.
The keepsakes
The book
The Oxford Companion to English Literature
Paul Harvey
I was much less well-read than I'd like to be
The luxury
I was hoping you would allow me to have a large cask of claret washed up on the shore ... if you could arrange that it was La Fitte, nineteen seventy
Presenter asks
22:07There's an organization that crops up a lot in your writings, Survival International. Now what is that organization?
Well, we started Survival International 15 years ago when there was a world outcry about the treatment of Brazilian Indians. And we felt that there was a need for such people... to be represented internationally until such time as they were able to represent themselves.
“I think there is a a kind of solitariness that comes from being in a wild and remote place like that. It was a very beautiful place, the most perfect imaginable place to grow up.”
“I was three months largely alone in a small boat in very remote rivers, was the ability to be totally alone, which I honestly don't think most people have any idea what it's like to be more than 100 miles, two or three hundred miles from the nearest other human being, totally alone in the tropical rainforest, looking after yourself. And very afraid.”
“the destruction of other cultures is, I believe, as criminal an act as the destructions of species uh which make up the ecosystem of the world. We are dangerously monocultural now. We are dangerously believing that we can solve all our problems by simply inventing more resources. And I don't think we can.”