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Desert Island Discs

Classic Desert Island Discs - Donald Sutherland

Desert Island Discs

BBC

Society & Culture, Music Commentary, Music, Personal Journals

4.413.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Sue Lawley talks to actor Donald Sutherland in a programme first broadcast in 2000. Donald Sutherland died in June 2024, aged 88.

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0:00.0

I'm Kim Ketrau and I want to tell you about my new podcast a new audio drama telling the history of the CIA from the inside out.

0:09.0

The United States of America was suddenly its worst domestic attack.

0:14.0

He's got to convince Congress to give him an open checkbook now.

0:18.0

America has suffered its worst domestic attack of the 20th century at Pearl Harbor.

0:23.0

How do we make contact with the NKGB?

0:27.0

Central Intelligence, starring me, Kim Kertral, Ed Harris, and Johnny Flynn.

0:31.0

There's $50,000 in it for you if you say yes.

0:34.8

Listen on BBC Sounds.

0:38.8

BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts. Laura Levern here.

0:44.0

We're taking our summer break.

0:45.0

So until we're back on air, we're showcasing a few programs from our archive.

0:49.0

As usual, the music's been shortened for right reasons.

0:52.0

This week's guest is the actor Donald Sutherland

0:55.8

who died in June. Sue Lawley cast him away in 2000. The My castaway this week is an actor. If you've been to the cinema at all regularly over the past 30 years you've almost certainly seen him in something

1:24.8

the psychopath in the dirty dozen perhaps or the sensitive detective in Koot almost famously as

1:30.3

Hawkeye Pierce in Mash. His performances are always strong, clever and

1:35.1

interesting. An actor he says is there to be molded. Born in Canada he

1:40.0

started his career in England but moved to Hollywood in his early 30s.

1:44.0

Now he's back in the West End where he first appeared on stage in 1958 in a new play called Enigmatic

1:50.4

Variations. The man who suffers from stage fright has come back to where it all

1:54.8

began because acting for him is something he has to do to live. It is my life, he

2:00.3

says. He is Donald Sutherland. You've gone as far as to say Mr Sutherland

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