if you were stranded on a desert island

[emmie]

what one book and one piece of music would you
wish for. I know you have something to play the music on, you already have that.

my book would be Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
and the music The Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughn Williams

[venator]

The Gormenghast trilogy (in one volume) and a long raga by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.

[DrFilth]

pixi if your island was close enough you would be able to hear it :)

[redman41]

I would be too busy building a Raft to read a Book but I would have Brian Eno on in the background whilst I was doing it !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJOm1njWb9Q

[carmalee]

boo my choice was because it is a favourite of mine and I think I would get fed up with modern music if I had to listen to it all the time whereas ode to Joy never bores me. BTW I love C & W music and am definitely not high brow!

[DrFilth]

who would be the first one to get a complaint and asked to turn it down a little as the coconuts are falling of the tree

[flip_flop]

I think Boo may have made a valid point.

Suggesting a classic tome and a classical piece of music may very well be true, but may also be said to convey to other ABers that they are 'cultured' when really all they want is a Brown or an Archer and a Ga Ga or a Dizzee.

[WELSHYORKIE]

Boo - highbrow - me you have got to be joking. I am as common as muck and proud of it. Council house kid me - brought up by one parent in the 60s - nowt more common than that - highbrow my @rse

[tigerlelly]

Would it be cheating if the book was my family photo album? As for music I would take the CD 'Snow Goose' by Camel.

[Bbbananas]

Sincerely, and without wanting to seem high brow or pretentious -

It would have to be Benedictus by Karl Jenkins, The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace.
Beautiful and moving, though I would spend my time in tears so I'd have to have something jaunty to counteract it - maybe Walking on Sunshine by Katrina & The Waves..... (if I were stranded on a bleeding desert island, I'd at least hope the sun was shining).

Book? Difficult decision. Tess of the D'Urbevilles or something laugh out loud such as One Day by David Nicholls.

[murraymints]

intermezzo from rusticana..mascagni.... guiness book of records

[Bbbananas]

Although ideally the book would be a blank one for me to write in my thoughts, emotions and wishes....

[Bbbananas]

or Aria by Acker Bilk. Another one to make me cry though.... so I'd counteract that with Maverick's Let's Dance The Night Away...

[jackthehat]

The thing is that it is *one* piece of music.......
I think after listening to anything I presently like (gaga/pink/Adele, etc) when it is roughly 3 to 3 and a half minutes long.......time after time..... would have me frisbee-ing the darned thing out to sea within a week. :o(

[carmalee]

exactly the reason for my choice of music JacktHat -

[DrFilth]

and that is why i picked pink floyd you can put the cd on in the morning and keep pressing repeat


The lunatic is in my head.
The lunatic is in my head
You raise the blade, you make the change
You re-arrange me 'til I'm sane.
You lock the door
And throw away the key
There's someone in my head but it's not me.

And if the cloud bursts, thunder in your ear
You shout and no one seems to hear.
And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon.

[Bbbananas]

As you know DrF I am a huge Floyd fan. So maybe one or some of their tracks would feature heavily on my Desert Island Discs.

[pa___ul3]

Book - What is the What by Dave Eggers, an inspiring story too so would help get me through.
Music - The one song that can't fail to pick me up - Upon This Tidal Wave of Young Blood by Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

[brionon]

'The Good Soldier Svejk' by Jaroslav Hasek. and 'Das Gibst nur einmall' sung by Lillian Harvey.