{"id":5005,"date":"2010-04-27T09:31:33","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T08:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/driftsurfingmagazine.driftdigital.co.uk\/?p=5005"},"modified":"2010-04-27T09:31:33","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T08:31:33","slug":"desert-island-discs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/driftsurfingmagazine.driftdigital.co.uk\/index.php\/archives\/5005","title":{"rendered":"Desert Island Discs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"desert-island-disks-small\"<\/a>It\u2019s a relatively simple idea: you\u2019re to be castaway on a desert island, and you must choose the eight records that you can have with you to while away the hours lazing under a palm tree next to the lagoon. Assuming of course that you haven\u2019t smuggled your i-life with you.<\/p>\n

This is the format of Britain\u2019s longest-running \u2018celebrity\u2019 chat-show, which has been on the airwaves for getting on for 70 years \u2013 although we\u2019re talking celebrity in the traditional BBC sense of the word: politicians, authors, scientists and the like. BBC Radio 4 is normally the domain of round-the-clock news, politics, current affairs and the shipping forecast, all delivered in a clipped and controlled Queen\u2019s English that betrays no emotion and harks back to the days when invisible radio announcers nonetheless had to wear dinner jackets to read the news. However, for an hour every Saturday it opens itself up to the nostalgic musical tastes of its subjects. It\u2019s the only time you\u2019re ever likely to hear Eminem on Radio 4 (choice of Sir Clive Woodward, former World Cup winning England rugby coach).<\/p>\n

So you get eight pieces of music, the complete works of Shakespeare, the Bible and a luxury item washed up on the beach with you. Hell-raising actor Oliver Reed requested an inflatable doll, while American author Norman Mailer said he\u2019d take a supply of marijuana. Though surely you could grow your own on a tropical desert island?<\/p>\n

I\u2019m pretty sure I\u2019d take a surfboard \u2013 a 6\u20192\u201d, just on the off-chance that there\u2019d be a smoking reef pass on the edge of the lagoon, like the one in that Tom Hanks movie. I\u2019d guess that there\u2019d be nowhere to develop camera film on a desert island anyway.<\/p>\n

But there is no way I could settle on just eight pieces of music, in fact I reckon I\u2019d struggle with selecting eight albums, because I could guarantee that the next day my mood would change and I\u2019d be hankering for Metallica rather than Miles Davis.<\/p>\n

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Eight memorable waves? Too tough.<\/p>\n

Eight memorable sessions? Well, perhaps I could recall and compile a list of my top eight surfs, although surely it has to be a list of seven being that one would have to be your first ever surf; the one that got you hooked on this whole endeavour.<\/p>\n

You never know, perhaps your island would have that little kink or gap in the reef that, combined with the prevailing swell direction and trade winds would combine to produce your dream wave. All to yourself. Perhaps seven sessions out there would populate the rest of your list?<\/p>\n

It seems to me that surfing is a pursuit that fills our brains with incredible memories, often fleeting periods that are difficult to recall in all of their wonderment as we\u2019re so wrapped up in the moment. Can you really recall that \u201cbest wave ever\u201d, in the same stark clarity with which you experienced it, every crystalline detail, droplet and glint of light refracting off the inside of that barrel? It only lasted a few seconds, so why not?<\/p>\n

I love lists, but compiling this one is just too hard.<\/p>\n

Go on \u2013 give it a go yourselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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