Close menu

Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Find out how to listen to other BBC stations

Episode details

Radio 4,04 Mar 2012,42 mins

Patsy Rodenburg

Desert Island Discs

Available for over a year

Kirsty Young's castaway is the renowned voice coach Patsy Rodenburg. Her work at the National Theatre and the RSC has spanned decades and her students include Dame Judi Dench, Sir Ian McKellen, Dame Maggie Smith and Daniel Day Lewis. But her work takes her away from the stage too - she has coached politicians and helped offenders in prison. She says: "I did some work on Hamlet in a top security prison and the guy playing Claudius was a murderer and he spoke, 'Oh my offence is rank, it smells to heaven', and he just broke." Producer: Leanne Buckle.

Programme Website
More episodes

Tracklist

  1. Track
    Artist
  2. 1.
    Mahler: Symphony No.5 – the 4th movement
    Mahler: Symphony No.5 – the 4th movement
    Gustav Mahler
  3. 2.
    Who Knows Where The Time Goes?
    Who Knows Where The Time Goes?
    Fairport Convention
  4. 3.
    Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 – final movement
    Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 – final movement
    Ludwig van Beethoven