On the way to the sea yestrday, I hummed the song La Mer, and it later occured to me that La Mer, would surely be one of my 'Desert Island Discs'! Now, it's unlikely that I will get an invite to share my 8 desert island discs with million of BBC listeners on the radio programme of the same name, but I can share them with you.
For the next 8 days I'm going to tell the 8 records I'd take with me on a desert island. Here's the first of my desert island discs.
The sea is a great love of mine. I have very happy early memories of day trips to the seaside at Rhyl in North Wales, and later Blackpool (the Paris of the North). Later as a young teenager I spent two weeks besides the wild Atlantic on the island of Harris in the Outer Hebrides.
When I was 17, I made my first trip across the English Channel to Calais in France. This song "La Mer" by Charles Trenet brings back those memories of France and my visits to the seaside.
Tomorrow's disc is altogether different.
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