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Sir Frederick Gibberd

Sir Frederick Gibberd

FromDesert Island Discs


Sir Frederick Gibberd

FromDesert Island Discs

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Length:
43 minutes
Released:
Aug 6, 1983
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Sir Frederick Gibberd includes among his designs a bridge, Liverpool Cathedral, the mosque in Regent's Park and Harlow New Town, but he says of himself "had I been less interested in people and more interested in building a monument, I'd probably have been a better architect".In conversation with Roy Plomley, he talks about his career, his enthusiasm for landscape gardening, and he chooses the eight records he would take to the mythical island.[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: The Marriage of Figaro Act 3 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: Scrapbook of poetry
Luxury: Bottle of sleeping tablets
Released:
Aug 6, 1983
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Eight tracks, a book and a luxury: what would you take to a desert island? Guests share the soundtrack of their lives.