Jane Goodall

Dr Jane Goodall is castaway by Sue Lawley.

She had no formal scientific qualifications when she first went to Africa to study the Gombe chimpanzees. But it was this lack of preconceptions which made her so successful as a naturalist.

Watching chimps use sticks to extract termites from their mounds she realised that she was about to smash the assumption that only humans used tools.

Now, 40 years after she first stepped into the bush, Dr Jane describes how she has halted her patient study of the chimpanzees to fight for their survival.

DISC ONE: Jacqueline De Pre and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Daniel Barenboim - Antonín Dvořák’s Cello Concerto in B minor
DISC TWO: Daniel Barenboim - Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor, Op.27/2 “Moonlight”
DISC THREE: Yehudi Menuhin and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler - Felix Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor
DISC FOUR: Richard Burton - Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood
DISC FIVE: Helmut Walcha and the Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Leopold Stokowski - Johann Sebastian Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565
DISC SIX: Elaine Paige - Memory (from Cats)
DISC SEVEN: Howard Blake - Walking in the Air
DISC EIGHT: Luciano Pavarotti and the Orchestra del Maggio, conducted by Zubin Mehta - Giacomo Puccini’s Recondita armonia (from Tosca)

CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Richard Burton - Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood
BOOK CHOICE: The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
LUXURY CHOICE: Pencil and paper

Producer: Angie Nehring

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2000.