The BBC radio show "Desert Island Disks" asked invited guests to imagine themselves marooned on a desert island, with no hope of rescue. The guest was asked to name 8 pieces of music, a book and a luxury item to pass the time, as well as their reason for their choices.

I thought it might be fun to update the concept, so here goes. On your desert island you will have an iPad. On it, you may have 8 pieces of music of up to CD/DVD size (The original was 8 7 inch singles, but as the medium is about dead I thought we'd use some more of the storage capacity of the iPad), 3 books (the collected works of the author of your choice, plus two others), a movie of any length and genre, a Newsstand magazine subscription, a podcast subscription and one app. You may also have a FaceTime account with one name on it, of any real person, living or dead.

Give your reasons if you feel inclined to do so.

Here are my desert island selections:

Music:

Carmina Burana - Orff - Seiji Osawa conducting the Berlin Philharmonic
Sarah Brightman - Symphony
Rush - Hemispheres
Deep Purple - In Rock
Yes - Going For The One
Libera - Angel Voices In Concert
Simon and Garfunkel - Concert in Central Park
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

Movie:
Bladerunner

Books:
2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C Clarke
The god delusion - Richard Dawkins
Collected works of Stephen Hawking

Podcast: Deep Astronomy

Newsstand:
Scientific American

FaceTime:
Richard Dawkins

App:
GarageBand (with all the time I would have, even I might learn some creativity

If I say the iPad forum app, do I get extra brownie points??? :P

Originally Posted by Chays

If I say the iPad forum app, do I get extra brownie points??? :P

Probably. You'd have to ask the mods. Of course, in the spirit of the radio show, your Internet connection might be limited to downloads in case you tried to call for a rescue. Roy Plumley was quite strict about this.

Dam, that to bad....

Here are my desert island selections:

Music:

Pop melody - Sam tsui
Born this way - lady Gaga
Super bass - niki mernaje
What you do to me - crazy white boys
Rain over me - pit bull
Queen of the night - the opera thingy
Cloudburst - Eric whitica
Pumped up kicks - foster the people

Movie:
Lion king

Books:
Spud
The bible, NIV
Million thing to do when you stuck on an island :-P

Podcast: Darren Whackhead Simpson

Newsstand:
Men's health

FaceTime:
Sam tsui, so he could sing me to sleep at night (YouTube him)

App:
YouTube if I can't have ipf

Just remembered this. I'll bump it once and see if there's any more interest in it than there was when I first posted it. If not it can sink to the bottom of the heap again.