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My Desert Island List

June 10, 2014 by WendyB

Heaven Has Heels magazine asked me what three things I’d take to a desert island. Here is the answer that was published in the summer 2014 issue.

HHHeels Summer 2014 Issue.Wendy Brandes

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Thanks, Heaven Has Heels, for giving me the space to give my full answer!

The desert-island question always makes me think of Desert Island Discs, the long-running BBC radio show. As the BBC site explains, Desert Island Discs was launched in 1942 as:

“a programme in which a well-known person is asked the question, if you were to be cast away alone on a desert island, which eight gramophone records would you choose to have with you, assuming of course, that you had a gramophone and an inexhaustible supply of needles.”

Nowadays, the guest (known as a “castaway”) chooses eight pieces of music, a book and a luxury item to take to the imaginary island. The program specifies that the luxury item can’t be human or anything that would be useful in getting off the island. I like that Desert Island Discs specifies that, because when people ask the question and don’t clarify that point, I feel compelled to give the type of answer I gave Heaven Has Heels. I mean, I want to play along, but I want a phone too, you know? Other people look for loopholes too.  In 1997, Monty Python member John Cleese got around the luxury-item rules by saying he would take fellow Python Michael Palin — but only if he were dead and stuffed. Good answer!

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  1. Monika Faulkner says

    June 11, 2014 at 2:57 pm

    Never mind your “desert island” answer, dear Wendy (although it IS a good one!)…I wanna talk about how amazing you look in this photo!! The hair – how long was your ponytail, anyway?! – and the red lip prints on that fun dress that match YOUR red lips!! Beautiful!!

    • WendyB says

      June 11, 2014 at 8:49 pm

      Ha ha! That faux-ny tail didn’t even match my regular hair too well, but it was fun to wear! I do love a hair piece!

  2. stacy says

    June 12, 2014 at 4:17 pm

    What a wonderful post! Congrats. And you’re answers are the absolute BEST ever. And the way I see it, FitzRoy counts as ONE item, but isn’t he allowed to bring three of his own? Bowl, kibble and a feather.

    • WendyB says

      June 12, 2014 at 5:00 pm

      Ooh, true, there’s always a way to get around the rules of the list.

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