Tom Lehrer Interview Desert Island Discs
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- Опубліковано 14 лип 2024
- Interview of Tom Lehrer from Desert Island Discs. This interview was released July 12th 1980.
If you want to hear the songs Tom Lehrer mentioned, the link is below.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p00...
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One of the greatest interviews of all time! Thank you!
Your welcome :)
As a very old listener to Desert Island Discs I didn't know that Tom had been on this iconic wireless programme.
such a mellifluous voice
I’ve listened to quite a few of these and this is one of the best.
I really love his work, especially "Poisoning pigeons in the park" and "She's my girl".
I love Desert island disks and Tom Lehrer for 50 years. Combining the two is like finding a diamond! Thank you so much!
I am very envious of the students who were in Tom's classes. Aside from learning a lot, I'm sure they all had a good time doing so!
You and me both. I saw a video of someone talking having Tom Lehrer as a teacher. She imagined that with it being him it was going to be funny, he’d make jokes, etc. when in reality she described it as the most boring class ever, because he was never funny or busted out into song. With all that aside, I’d still be grateful to have him as a teacher.😭
@@TLS0ngs People forgetting that he needs to be professional and to jest 24/7 is not realistic😂
@@qwmx haha right
What a delightful man, well spoken and precise. I do wish the interviewer wouldn't rush him so.
Well said, old boy
He may not have rushed him at the time, Desert Island Discs editing to cram 7 pieces of music + chat into half an hour can be clunky. His lucky students must have had whole hours of his uninterrupted wit and wisdom!
So soothing.
I don't cook I thaw 😂
TL sounds relaxed and great, Roy Plomley embarrassingly formal.
Having heard this, I finally feel I know him as a person.
All these interviews make me feel like that too😂
This is great. Thanks for uploading.
Your welcome :)
You can reach mental maturity and still embrace or look at things from an immature perspective. Speaking from someone who's mind has matured quite a bit and still see things with childish wonder.
If you landed here by chance…and listened through this interview and its list of fine songs…but heard nothing by the man himself, and don’t know his work, just search UA-cam for a smattering of this sly, irreverent, intelligent man who not only loves Gilbert and Sullivan but would be loved in turn by them. Try “Poisoning Pigeons in the Park” which starts off as just another predictable song about the joys of Spring which leads you slyly to an Awareness that the narrator of the song is totally deranged……and you’re singing along with him.
Sad that we can't hear the songs because of copyright.
Yeah, I took them out to avoid that. If you want to hear them, you can check the link in the caption
@@TLS0ngs
Thanks for that.
He released all of his work into the public domain in 2020
@@user-bk3bp5yy7m We all know. He’s referring to the songs that Tom would choose as his Desert Island Discs
Poisoning Pigeons in the Park was the first I heard by chance on a radio programme as a teenager in the 70s, and was won! I must have been one if the young people he speaks about who were part of the Tom Lehrer appreciation revival.
I didn't hear properly (probably because this is an accent thing), did he say "can you stand loneliness"? That is what the captions says but I'm pretty skeptical about it.
Pity none of his chosen records got included -copyright, I guess.
Yeah I took them out to avoid copyright. Full interview with songs is in the link in description.
who is the presenter of this desert island discs?
Roy Plomley
was this done in 1980?
Yes. July 12th 1980 to be exact