Sir Fitzroy MacLean
Desert Island Discs
BBC
4.4 • 13.7K Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 1981
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Sir Fitzroy MacLean.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello I'm Kirstie Young and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs archive. |
| 0:05.0 | The program was originally broadcast in 1981 and the presenter was Roy Plumlee. Our cast away this week is an author, a traveler, an ex-soldier and an ex-politician Sir Fitzroy McClain. |
| 0:34.0 | Sir Fitzroy, you've been to many strange and romantic places. |
| 0:38.0 | Have you ever visited a desert island? |
| 0:40.0 | I've visited one or two rather barren rocks off the west coast of Scotland |
| 0:46.0 | in fact one of which I am hereditary captain and keeper. |
| 0:50.0 | I've also visited a good number of rocks off the Dalmatian coast. |
| 0:56.0 | And you have no ambition whatever to spend any considerable time on one? |
| 1:00.0 | I wouldn't mind if I did. |
| 1:02.0 | Is music an interest of yours? on one. I wouldn't mind if I did. |
| 1:03.2 | Is music an interest of yours? |
| 1:05.2 | It's an interest but I'm very untuted. |
| 1:08.4 | Do you possess a lot of records? |
| 1:10.2 | Quite a lot. |
| 1:11.3 | What was your plan in choosing your eight for the desert island? |
| 1:14.8 | Nostalgia, Inspiration, Self-improvement, music while you work? What was your... |
| 1:20.0 | Largely Nostalgia. |
| 1:22.0 | Right. And also pleasure. |
| 1:24.0 | But I think I mean the idea would be things that would remind one of happy moments |
| 1:31.0 | in one's past or interesting moments in one's past. |
| 1:34.0 | I'm a great one for nostalgia. |
| 1:37.0 | What's the first one you have on that little pile there? |
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