Jeffrey Bernard
Desert Island Discs: Archive 1991-1996
English - March 10, 1991 11:15 - 36 minutes - 33.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 64 ratingsPersonal Journals Society & Culture comedy interview news politics business entrepreneurship culture health books leadership Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the Spectator columnist Jeffrey Bernard. His Low Life column has gained him something of a cult following over the 15 years or so it's been appearing; slightly irregularly. It concentrates on the kind of life in Soho which seems often to revolve solely around drinking, women and gambling - the kind of life Jeffrey Bernard enjoys, by his own admission. And of course, last year Keith Waterhouse turned some of these columns into the highly-successful West End hit Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell - a production starring Peter O'Toole which is about to return to the Shaftesbury Theatre next month.
[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]
Favourite track: Introitus Requiem Mass by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: Complete Sherlock Holmes Short Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Luxury: Hgih-powered hunting rifle and ammunition