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Castaway
1 appearance
A British Conservative Cabinet minister who served as Secretary of State for Education and Employment.
On the island
Eight records
Mass in B minor, BWV 232: Cum Sancto SpirituFavourite
Taverner Consort and Players, conducted by Andrew Parrott
I can remember now when I first heard this performed at a concert in Norwich. It was an amateur performance. It was a big mass choir, big mass orchestra. And I can remember now the thrill uh that I had from that performance.
Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra in E-flat major, K. 365: III. Rondo (Allegro)
Ellen Corver and Sepp Grotenhuis, with the Amsterdam Mozart Players conducted by Jürgen Kussmaul
My piano teacher and I performed this last movement arranged for piano duet. at a concert that she gave to mark uh the point at which a number of her pupils, including me, were leaving school and going off, in my case, to university.
String Quintet in C major, D. 956: II. Adagio
I was brought up in a very strongly classical tradition as far as my musical education was concerned... And it wasn't really until I got to Oxford that I felt I could luxuriate in the romantics. And this piece, I think, is exquisitely beautiful.
Violin Sonata in A major: IV. Allegretto poco mosso
Pinchas Zukerman and Marc Neikrug
I've chosen this because I'm enchanted by French people. I love uh their elegance, I love their intelligence, and I love the fact that they prize intelligence... But there are aspects of the French character which I find maddening, and one of them is their relentless logic, even when they know they're wrong. And I think this particular piece of music illustrates that perfectly.
Number five is a record which was given to me by my younger stepson... I think it's a glorious mix of uh Cleo Lane's beautiful dark voice and uh the silvery flute.
I had the good fortune to meet Diana Ross earlier in the year at a friend's house. Uh she was extraordinary, extremely modest, very understated, but with uh a lot of power there, just waiting to be unleashed
Peter Grimes: Four Sea Interludes, Op. 33a - II. Sunday Morning
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, conducted by Benjamin Britten
The next record is an inevitable choice. It is Benjamin Britton. He does so represent East Anglia and the grittier side... It is menacing. It is over busy. There is this heavy tolling of a bell and a sort of spiky movement representing the people.
String Quintet No. 4 in G minor, K. 516: I. Allegro
Amadeus Quartet with Cecil Aronowitz
I just want it to go with me on this desert island because I love it.
In conversation
Presenter asks
0:36Was it always your intention to reach high places, or did you surprise yourself?
I suppose that secretly it was my intention to try to rise as high as I could, but I'm not certain that I ever really admitted it to myself. And it is also the case that I've enjoyed everything that I've done
Presenter asks
2:03Do you think you'd be any good at running the country?
I think I have my hands very full with the task that I have at the moment. Running the country... is something quite other.
Presenter asks
6:36What are the disadvantages [of staying in Norfolk]?
If you don't break out of it, and if you don't make certain that you experience other things and make a great effort to understand where other people are coming from, of course it can be a disadvantage. But my word, it's a terrific strength.
Presenter asks
The keepsakes
What about you at the time when you were coming out of Oxford? What did you think you were going to do with your life?
I wasn't very sure. I went into teaching. I didn't enjoy it very much. I liked the children. I liked the contact with my subject. What I didn't terribly like was being uh stuck in one place with uh a daily routine that didn't alter very much.
Presenter asks
18:10What was different about Tom Shephard when you met him?
I very much admired the work that my husband did. He was considered as a very, very good professional... so I was interested in him professionally. and had indeed known him for three or four years, simply through professional contact and then when it came to it all the other problems seemed to melt away.
Presenter asks
22:34How did you know you could do it [operate on a national level in Parliament]?
It didn't occur to me that I couldn't. It seemed to me that there was a whole range of issues with which I was very familiar and probably more familiar than a lot of other people trying to go into Parliament at that time.
“It was borne in on me from the earliest possible age that, if you wanted a pound, really you had to go out and earn it. and that on the whole it was probably better not to spend it if you could avoid it.”
“I think the way things have turned out it must have been [love].”
“If you are asking me if I tidy the house when I get home, the answer is always yes. You may not need it, but I always do it.”