Each week a guest, called a “castaway” during the programme, is asked to choose eight audio recordings (usually, but not always, music), a book and a luxury item that they would like to take if they were to be cast away on a desert island
So if you were the castaway what would your choices be?
I’ll be back with mine later.
I Comfortably numb Pink Floyd
2 Nantucket Sleighride Mountain
3 Mr Blue Sky Elo
4 A recording of ‘I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue
5 It’s All Coming Back to me Now Pandoras Box
6 Runaway The Corrs
7 Lord Grenfell Al Stewart
8 Memories Earth and Fire
Book The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul Douglas Adams
Luxury Item A waterproof sleeping bag
My book would be The Pickwick Papers by C. Dickens.
Just 8 records is going to need a bit of thinking. 
1.Beethoven Pastoral Symphony
2 Dvorak New World Symphony
3 Holst The Planets
4 ELO Showdown
5 Beatles In My Life
6 Stones Wild Horses
7 Rachmaninov Piano concerto 2
8 Tony Hancock Sunday at Home.
Somewhere over the rainbow…Israel Kamakawiwo’ole
I’m yours…Jason Mraz
Sultans of swing…Dire Straits
We’ve only just begun…Carpenters
40 Miles of bad road…Duane Eddy
Nessun Dorma…Pavarotti
Wonderful land…The Shadows
Time to say goodbye…Sarah Brightman & Andrea Bocelli
GOODBYE.
I hear you knocking - Dave Edmunds.
Stranger on the shore - Acker Bilk.
The Swan - Saint-Saëns.
I’m not in love - 10cc
Money for nothing - Dire Straits
Take a message to Mary - The Everly Brothers
Let’s work together - Canned Heat.
You’ve got a friend - James Taylor
Book Papillon
Luxury item face cream
Careless whisper - George Michael
These arms of mine - Otis Reading
Cry to me - Solomon Burke
Paralyzed - Elvis Presley
Lay you down in a bed of roses - Bon Jovi
The hurting time - Jerry Lee Lewis
High school confidential - Jerry Lee Lewis
Hurt So Good - Susan Cadogan
Since the survival book is too obvious, I’d say Goodall’s Reason for Hope (non-fiction), and either Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden or James Michner’s Centennial (fiction).
In no particular order
Suite Judy Blue Eyes (Live) - Crobsy Still and Nash
Kashmir - Led Zeppelin
Nessun Dorma - Sarah Brightman
God Only Knows - Beach Boys
Interstate Love Song - Stone Temple Pilots
Year of the Cat - Al Stewart
Moonlight Sonata - Glenn Miller
Hotel California - Eagles
Whenever I Say Your Name (Live in Berlin) - Sting
Roam - B-52s
Samba da Benção - Bebel Gilberto
Galveston - Glen Campbell
Books
Birmingham A to Z
Garelli Tiger Cross workshop manual
Time Passages - Al Stewart
You can do Magic - America
Black Magic Woman - Santana
Is there anybody out there - Pink Floyd
Echo’s - Pink Floyd
It’s raining - Darts
Africa - Toto
Always with you, with me - Joe Satriani
Sugar Baby Love - The Rubettes
Jesamine - The Casuals
Eternal Source of Light Divine - George Frederick Handel
Misere Mei - Palestrina
Remote Control - The Clash
Love is Blue - Vicky Leandros
Sheena is a Punk Rocker - Ramones
Hark the Herald Angels Sing - Choir of Kings College Cambridge
This is a difficult one, I have so many to choose from, this would require a long study first. 
It is difficult to choose. One I thought of after posting my list is, ‘Raining in my Heart’ by Buddy Holly but if it there can only be 8 choices, it would have been hard to cut out one of the others.
I know, I know…
Really sorry, it wasn’t my intention to point anything out 
If it has to be only 8, then today I would say these ones, but tomorrow something else will probably come to my mind, and I’d have to change my list!
No particular order:
Hotel California - Eagles
The River - Bruce Springsteen
The load out - Jackson Browne
The sound of silence - Simon and Garfunkel
I will survive - Gloria Gaynor
A whiter shade of pale - Procol Harum
Your song - Elton John
Perfect Day - Lou Reed
In no particular order
Peaches ~ The Stranglers
She’s a Rainbow ~ The Rolling Stones
On The Beach ~ Neil Young
How Many More Times ~ Led Zeppelin
Across The Universe ~ The Beatles
Time ~ Supergrass
There Is a Light That Never Goes Out ~ The Smiths
Magic Bus (Live at Leeds) ~ The Who
Ah yes!
Go Buddy Go on the B side! 
I don’t think I know that one, but the B52s were a lot of fun, quite unique, and I’d forgotten about them, that era in my life. Rock Lobster and Planet Claire, two I remember. 
You are so right - big fun they most certainly were! I was in the right place at the right time to know this bunch in Kansas City when they were first getting a start in our college bars. I love this song because Kate and Cindy can belt the devil out of this song, especially live. If this won’t get you off your hammock to go find a coconut, I don;t know what will 
!
Apologies, 8 more, 8 different artists:
Bewley Brothers ~ David Bowie
Sunshine of your Love ~ Cream
Angel ~ Jimi Hendrix
Way to Blue ~ Nick Drake
In My Secret Life ~ Leonard Cohen
Going Back Home ~ Dr Feelgood
Spirit in the Sky ~ Norman Greenbaum
Gasoline alley ~ Faces
Love these hippies
