BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 6th June 2020
Kirsty Young chats to broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough, who chooses his eight tracks, book and luxury item for the desert island.
Specially extended show to mark Desert Island Disc's 70th anniversary for BBC Radio 4 Extra.
He has seen more of the world than anyone else who has ever lived - he's visited the north and south poles and witnessed most of the life in-between - from the birds in the canopies of tropical rainforests to giant earthworms in Australia.
But despite his extraordinary travels, there is one part of the globe that's eluded Sir David. As a young man and a keen rock-climber, he yearned to conquer the highest peak in the world.
"I won't make it now - I won't make it to base camp now - but as a teenager, I thought that the only thing a red-blooded Englishman really should do was to climb Everest."
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2012.
Francisco Yglesia - Pajaro Campana Or The Bell Bird [Analogue Rock]
Franz Schubert - Impromptu No.1 In F Minor [Ottavo]
George Frideric Handel - And The Glory Of The Lord [Decca]
Lyre Bird - Lyre Bird [BBC Sound Archive]
Johann Sebastian Bach - 3rd Of Bach's Goldberg Variations [Sony Classical]
The Gamelan Orchestra - Legong [Argo]
Carl Michael Ziehrer - Wiener Burger Waltz [Deutsche Grammophon]
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Soave Sia Il Vento – Gentle Be The Breeze [Philips]
