Quite some time ago I came across the idea of an antitheses to Desert Island Discs.
For those not in the know, DID is a long running (it started in 1942!) weekly BBC Radio programme in which a public figure (the castaway on the eponymous island) chooses the eight pieces of music they would want to have with them. They are also allowed one book (in addition to The Bible and The Works of Shakespeare) and one luxury.
In the version I have in mind one chooses the music etc. one would least like to have. So here are my choices:
Least Favourite Records
- Middle of the Road, Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep
- Helen Kane, I taut I taw a Puddy Tat. Genuine torment of my childhood.
- Anything Country & Western
- Beatles, Blackbird, from the White Album. This always makes me depressed, which is the last thing I’ll need.
- Paul McCartney, Mull of Kintyre
- Vivaldi, Four Seasons
- Pachelbel, Canon in D major
- And finally it is a toss up between opera and Mozart. On balance I think I’d hate to have anything operatic (Gilbert & Sullivan excepted).
Least Favourite Book
I’d probably choose Salman Rushdie, Satanic Verses which I am totally unable to read. I’d also not be too keen an anything by Dickens, Jane Austen, the Brontës, Thomas Hardy (you can blame school for that collection).
Least Favourite Luxury
Golf clubs or Scuba diving gear — I cannot imagine ever wanting to do either, although I suppose the golf clubs could be useful for building a shelter or clubbing meat to death.
Anyone else fancy joining in? If so post your choices on your blog and leave a comment so we can all enjoy them. 🙂