{"id":26022,"date":"2014-06-10T15:35:16","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T19:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=26022"},"modified":"2014-06-10T15:35:16","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T19:35:16","slug":"my-desert-island-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/my-desert-island-list\/","title":{"rendered":"My Desert Island List"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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Thanks, Heaven Has Heels, for giving me the space to give my full answer!<\/p>\n

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

“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.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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.\u00a0 In 1997<\/a>, 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<\/a>! <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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. 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…<\/p>\n

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