Regarding the music in this program, I think it was actually handled better than in most YouTube versions of desert island discs. We are given a reasonably long excerpt of each piece whereas usually one is given the opening bars of a piece followed by a brutal cut to the ending bars of the same piece. So kudos to whoever edited this show!

When he performed in The Cambidge Footlights at The Hexagon in Reading he was in a sketch involving a driving instructor...l was laughing so much he looked cinema my direction and said " Are we going past a zoo?" Clearly an ad-lib...which the following week was quoted in Reading's local newspaper...much to my delight

I think he's greatest character General Melchett should've had his own series! A sensitive and reflective dude.

I love this brilliant man.

What a wonderful, honest and engaging man Stephen is. Truly a National Treasure.

Thumbs up for his Beethoven choice!

The first piece was supposed to be Bach, but I think they got mixed up and played John Cage.

❤

Um so when she said the music tracks might be shorter she meant not at all.

Lovely intelligent man.

A fantastic interview... I would love it had she asked him about his starring role of that other homosexual genius Oscar Wilde in the movie Wilde as he seemed to play the part brilliantly

01) Glen Gould plays
       Johann Sebastian Bach :
        the Guige segment from
        Partita no. 1

02) Franz Schubert
      "The Trout"

03) Ludwig van Beethoven
      String Quartet no. 14

04) Nina Simone
      "I Wish I Knew How It
      Would Feel To Be Free"

05) Richard Wagner
      "Tristan und Isolde"

06) Hugh Laurie
      "Changes" (song released
                                        in 2013)

07) Ella Fitzgerald
      "Do I Love You?"

08) Arthur Wood
      "Barwick Green" (theme from
                                           The Archers)

Am I right in saying this is the second time Steven has been on??

Such a lovely person with such a lovely voice 💗

Hugh Laurie's singing voice sounds very much like Leon Russell.

Why are people complaining that there's no music? Only the first track is missing, and it's not hard to find online.

I would never have guessed that was Hugh Laurie if we had not been told.

MMEEEEEEEHH!!!

Not. Quite. The. Same. Without the music!!!  Love Stephen though, but I can't be arsed to search each tune

Split infinitive in the first sentence! Ha ha!