It must be a fix, surely? The list of tunes voted online ‘by the nation’ as the eight favourite ‘discs’ we would like to be marooned with on a desert island is the dullest, most unoriginal, least controversial combination we listeners could possibly have come up with.
It must be a fix, surely? The list of tunes voted online ‘by the nation’ as the eight favourite ‘discs’ we would like to be marooned with on a desert island is the dullest, most unoriginal, least controversial combination we listeners could possibly have come up with. The organisers of the poll as they studied its results must have been rueing the meeting when they came up with the idea of turning Desert Island Discs into an internet quiz. If the list is a reflection of Radio 4’s listener profile, then it’s scarcely changed since DID began 60 years ago. Put it another way and it’s a salutary revelation of just how limited the reach of Radio 4 across the country really is.
Vaughan Williams comes out top of the poll with his ‘The Lark Ascending’.
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