Gyles Brandreth on Desert Island Discs

Gyles Brandreth is on today's BBC Radio 4 Desert Island Discs and I just know that his musical choices will be intelligent and witty, like the man himself:

1. Noel Coward - 'There are bad times just around the corner'

2. A French version of 'My heart went boom' - including a sheep impression, but no goat

3. Simon Cadell as Henry Higgins in 'My Fair Lady' - 'I've grown accusomed to her face'

4. Choir of St Pauls Cathedral - 'Dear Lord and Father of Mankind'

5. Pupils from Godolphin and Latymer school in London from a musical called 'The Vackees' - 'Warning, man in Uniform'

6. Laurence Olivier - The speech to the Senate speech from Shakespeare's Othello

"As we move into the third hour of the programme"

7. A bit of Sondheim from a show 'Zipped' that I did go and see - 'With so little to be sure of'

8. John Reed - 'High aesthetic man'(?) from Gilbert & Sullivan's Patience'


His luxury choice Michelangelo's Pietà just beating a Cappuchino machine.


Possibly the most words spoken by a DID interviewee ever? What a raconteur Gyles Brandreth is!

"I've been to a marvellous party"

I was looking on Youtube for Noel Coward's "London Pride" and failed but did find this splendid version of "I've been to a marvellous party" by The Divine Comedy.





STOP PRESS:
Here's "London Pride" in all its glory...