Available to listen via BBC Radio Four, Colin on Desert Island Discs from 1978 with the legendary dulcet tones of Roy Plomley. Listen here.
CHOICES.
1. Richard Wagner
Schwüles Gedünst schwebt in der Luft (from ‘Das Rheingold’)
Soloist: Eberhard Wachter Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor: Georg Solti
2. Yves Montand Et La Fete Continue
3. Fred Astaire Something’s Gotta Give
4. Ludwig van Beethoven String Quartet in F Orchestra: Amadeus String Quartet
5. Philharmonic Promenade Orchestra Covent Garden
6. Bix Beiderbecke and His Gang Jazz Me Blues
7. Kurt Weill The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny Soloist: Lotte Lenya Orchestra: Berlin Radio Orchestra
8. Paris Conservatoire Orchestra Opera D’Aran
Book and Luxury Choices
BOOK
Travels in the Arabian Desert by Charles Montagu Doughty
LUXURY ITEM
Supply of Beaujolais
The Phenomenology of Excess 
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Colin Wilson is perhaps the most definitive English thinker and writer of modern times. It’s never dull to hear the man speak and speak he does on this BBC Desert Island Discs podcast from 1978. He is the writer of superb books on the outsider, religion and the occult in society and has produced well in excess of one hundred non-fiction, fictional and biographical studies across a career that began with his ‘The Outsider’ published in 1956. Quaff deeply, taste eternally.
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