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  • StratavariousStratavarious Frets: 3112
    Sassafras said:
    Always makes me laugh on Desert Island Discs when they cast you away with the bible and the complete works of Shakespeare.
    Are they hoping you'll die of boredom on the island?
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  • DeadmanDeadman Frets: 3663
    Ah, the reason I was moved from GCE English class to CSE. Still got a grade 1 though so up yours Billy lad.
    I play at my dining room table.
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  • BillDLBillDL Frets: 5615
    Sassafras said:
    Always makes me laugh on Desert Island Discs when they cast you away with the bible and the complete works of Shakespeare.
    Are they hoping you'll die of boredom on the island?
    As @Philly_Q has mentioned below, if you actually acted it out with nobody watching, you would be getting good muscle exercise with all the arm waving, pacing, shouting and pointing, in between foraging for small shellfish and bits of seaweed.  It beats talking to a volleyball with a bloody hand print on it.
    Philly_Q said:

    I couldn't sit and just read Shakespeare, although I quite enjoyed it even in school when we used to half-act it by reading it out loud.  And it had the explanatory notes on the left-hand page.
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  • boogiemanboogieman Frets: 11742
    Sassafras said:
    Always makes me laugh on Desert Island Discs when they cast you away with the bible and the complete works of Shakespeare.
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    I’ve always presumed that was a hangover from the first and original Roy Plumley programs, when DID was trying to be highbrow, full of luvvy ac-tors and “worthy” people as the guests. 
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  • GrumpyrockerGrumpyrocker Frets: 3884
    I believe the idea was that once you remove two of the greatest works of English Literature (the King James Bible and the works of The Bard) it meant guests might choose more interesting varied choices. 

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