# Sue Lawley quits Desert Island Disks after 18 years.

Category: Broadcaster's Lounge

## Post 1 by bozmagic (The rottie's your best friend if you want him/her to be, lol.) on Wednesday, 12-Apr-2006 21:07:23

Hi. Guess a few of my fellow zoners have heard that Sue Lawley, presenter of Desert Island Disks is quitting the show after 18 years. Now, she's interviewed loads and loads of celebrities, film stars, singers Etc Etc while she's been on air every Sunday morning from 11.15 AM to 12.00 PM on BBC Radio 4 FM/MW. Now, she always plays three favourite records chosen by each person interviewed on Desert Island Disks and they have to imagine they're marooned on a desert island and they can take six favourite songs or pieces of music with them and obviously play them on this desert island.
This is really, a chance for my fellow Zoners to think what're their top six favourite songs and post them on here.
I'll start us off now.
1. Hedwig's theme from Harry Potter, composed by John Williams.
2. Corinne Bailey Rae and put your records on.
3. Craig David and Seven days.
4. K D Lang and Summer Fling.
5. Aled Jones and You Raise Me up. (not the crappy Westlife version though. I was devastated when they ruined Aled's version last year, curse them).
6. and finally, Imbugalea Gwyneth Gwyn. This is of course, a welsh folk song, also recorded by Aled Jones. Me and Blairwitch saw him performing not once, but twice last year at the Wisley Music Festival last June and again as my 22nd Birthday treat, on his New Horizons, tour at The Anvil in Basingstoke, Hants. These records just remind me of all the good times I've ever had with Blairwitch or Kay, who's been my best friend through a lot of hard times for both of us and we've always been there for each other. That's why I'd take those records with me.

## Post 2 by guitargod1 (I'm going for the prolific poster awards!) on Wednesday, 12-Apr-2006 21:32:08

My six pieces of music I would bring would be 1, metropolis part 1 by dream theater, 2, for the love of god by steve vai, 3, watermelon in easter hay by frank zappa, 4, one by metallica, 5, Moonlite sinata by Beethoven, and, 6, limelight by rush. As a side note, my favourite episode of desert island discs was the one where she had Brian May from Queen on.

## Post 3 by laced-unlaced (Account disabled) on Thursday, 13-Apr-2006 5:35:22

i wwould choose
1: obsetion by aventura
2: it's chiko time by chiko
3: i will survive by gloria gana
4: islands in the stream with the beegees
5: dolly parton's 9 to 5
and 6: niel diamond love on the rocks

## Post 4 by Goblin (I have proven to myself and the world that I need mental help) on Friday, 14-Apr-2006 10:17:28

Hmm I'd have to choose Holy Water Moonlight Sopor Aeternus, Ode to Joy Beethoven, Mozart's Requiem, hmm R

## Post 5 by Goblin (I have proven to myself and the world that I need mental help) on Friday, 14-Apr-2006 10:20:43

ROTK soundtrack,Flower of Scotland by the Corries,and the Scottish crowd at Murrayfield, hmmm my brother playing Bach's Toccata & Fuge a stunning piece of electric guitar.

## Post 6 by bozmagic (The rottie's your best friend if you want him/her to be, lol.) on Friday, 14-Apr-2006 12:40:03

Well, I've got a tape with the Desert Island Disks on the 5th of November 2000 the day after my 17th birthday, where Sue Lawley interviewed my favourite author of all time, J.K. Rowling.

## Post 7 by bozmagic (The rottie's your best friend if you want him/her to be, lol.) on Friday, 14-Apr-2006 12:40:17

Well, I've got a tape with the Desert Island Disks on the 5th of November 2000 the day after my 17th birthday, where Sue Lawley interviewed my favourite author of all time, J.K. Rowling.

## Post 8 by Goblin (I have proven to myself and the world that I need mental help) on Saturday, 15-Apr-2006 7:57:13

How often did jk lie, honestly, she'd have been better off with an MP.

## Post 9 by bozmagic (The rottie's your best friend if you want him/her to be, lol.) on Saturday, 15-Apr-2006 11:22:19

O no. She's not the sort of person who lies. It's all in her biography, well, stuff I've read online anyway.

## Post 10 by bozmagic (The rottie's your best friend if you want him/her to be, lol.) on Saturday, 15-Apr-2006 11:24:40

O no. She's not the sort of person who lies. It's all in her biography, well, stuff I've read online anyway.

## Post 11 by Goblin (I have proven to myself and the world that I need mental help) on Sunday, 16-Apr-2006 9:30:58

She wrote the outline for HP in a cafe in Leith Edinburgh, and on becoming famous she denied ever having been in Scotland. She claims to have written the outline on a train to england! JK Rowling is a compulsive liar, the only positive thing she has done is encourage children to read.