Tuning in…
Tuning in…
Castaway
1 appearance
An actor, best known for his stage and screen work.
On the island
Eight records
The first piece of music of which I became conscious, I suppose, when I was three or four years old.
Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, K. 488
I first became aware of this as a student, and I actually fell in love for the first time in my life to this.
Paco Aguilera and Antonio Gonzalez
This reminded me of the difficult days in restaurants... it saved my soul from the crushing part of loneliness.
This record was a hit when I first met Kara, my wife, so I'll always like it for that reason.
Gigue from Partita No. 1 in B-flat major, BWV 825
Glenn Gould is someone who's immensely courageous... absolute clarity.
Requiem: Dies iraeFavourite
Everything that Verdi had learned crashed together... a kind of nuclear explosion.
It will remind me of this country and so much that I love about it.
He really has been part of my life. I think I go crackers without the sound of his voice.
In conversation
Presenter asks
0:29Have you ever daydreamed about being a Robinson Crusoe?
Perhaps the odd nightmare has flashed across my screen, but it's not something that I that I lust after.
Presenter asks
1:04Did you find it very difficult to choose just eight records?
I found it easier to play King Lear than choose these. It's the most monumental task I've ever been asked to do. I'm up late at night thinking about this dreadful thing.
Presenter asks
13:04So you're in London, Tom. What was your first break, really?
Well, Breaks always started at an unexpected point. … I said, I can't come here and work for fourteen pounds a week. And he said, Well, I can only tell you that Nigel Hawthorne said exactly the same thing. … I took the chance and exactly the same thing happened. I haven't stopped working since.
Presenter asks
25:28And you've been making a film in Poland. What's that?
The keepsakes
The book
A. S. Neill
I might take Summerhill by A. S. Neal because he's so loving and understanding about children.
Yes, that's an adaptation of a book called The Wall, which is about the rising in the Warsaw Ghetto during the war. … Food is in extremely short supply, and the Polish spirit is just uncrackable. … there were moments in the filming where suddenly people will come in and say, No, no, you can't say that.
Presenter asks
28:27How are you going to manage on this island? Have you any domestic skills that would be useful?
I have some domestic skills, but I don't know if they'll be of any use on the island. … Could I rig up some form of hut shelter? Yes, yes, I could probably do that.
Presenter asks
30:53If you could take only one disc out of the eight you've chosen, which would it be?
Um well I'd have to be practical here. I think probably I'd take the Verdi Requiem because there's more music squeezed onto the two sides of a disc. I'm astonished that you're not letting me take the entire work, but only one disc out of the eight.
“Perhaps the odd nightmare has flashed across my screen, but it's not something that I that I lust after.”
“A Lancastrian Lord in a Besieged Castle. I can't remember what the play was called, though. It was quite funny, I remember.”
“I went in and said, How do you join this place? And they said, Well, you do this and that and this and that and talk to your parents and … A week later I started.”
“it saved my soul because I could play the guitar from well, from the time I got up in the morning till when I went to bed at night and it just saved me from the the crushing part of loneliness.”
“I think I go crackers without the sound of his voice.”
“That was terribly difficult, the the the decision. I was gonna take Cartier Bresso … I might take Summerhill by A. S. Neal.”