Wendy Beckett's guest appearances

Wendy Beckett

Desert Island Discs

The Not Old - Better Show

Last Word

Desert Island Discs: Archive 2011-2015

LadyKflo

Charles Jencks

Robert Hardy

Andrea Levy

Beryl Vertue

Roger Graef

Murray Walker

Margaret Rhodes

Hilary Devey

Terry Wogan

Malcolm Gladwell

Terry Gilliam

Julian Fellowes

John Butler

Elie Wiesel

Toni Morrison

OwlTail

I didn't know Sister Wendy was my hero until she died last year. Beckett, a brilliant scholar, turned down an invitation to study at the foot of J.R.R. Tolkien. A religious nun, and fellow art-obsessed fangirl, she was one of my favorite people. I knew I loved her. But it wasn't until she left this mortal coil that I found out how much. After forty years of ardent devotion to art, Sister Wendy died December 28, 2018. Learn more about it and watch a bit from her incredible interview with Bill Moyers at LadyKflo.com with a click below: https://www.ladykflo.com/sister-wendy-beckett/ 

I didn't know Sister Wendy was my hero until she died last year. Beckett, a brilliant scholar, turned down an invitation to study at the foot of J.R.R. Tolkien. A religious nun, and fellow art-obsessed fangirl, she was one of my favorite people. I knew I loved her. But it wasn't until she left this mortal coil that I found out how much. After forty years of ardent devotion to art, Sister Wendy died December 28, 2018. Learn more about it and watch a bit from her incredible interview with Bill Moyers at <a href="http://LadyKflo.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LadyKflo.com</a> with a click below: <a href="https://www.ladykflo.com/sister-wendy-beckett/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.ladykflo.com/sister-wendy-beckett/</a>

Sister Wendy Beckett

Nicolas Roeg

Inge Borkh

Geoff Emerick

Aaron Klug

Pictured: Sister Wendy Beckett Julian Worricker on:The nun, Sister Wendy Beckett, who became an unlikely television star when she brought her knowledge of the history of art to the small screen...Nicolas Roeg, the film director behind such classics as Don't Look Now and The Man Who Fell to Earth...The German soprano, Inge Borkh, described as one of the most exciting operatic performers of her era...The Nobel prize winning scientist, Professor Sir Aaron Klug, credited with ground-breaking work on the structure of viruses...And Geoff Emerick, a recording engineer regarded as the technical genius behind the sound of the Beatles...Producer: Paula McGinley

Pictured: Sister Wendy Beckett Julian Worricker on:The nun, Sister Wendy Beckett, who became an unlikely television star when she brought her knowledge of the history of art to the small screen...Nicolas Roeg, the film director behind such classics as Don't Look Now and The Man Who Fell to Earth...The German soprano, Inge Borkh, described as one of the most exciting operatic performers of her era...The Nobel prize winning scientist, Professor Sir Aaron Klug, credited with ground-breaking work on the structure of viruses...And Geoff Emerick, a recording engineer regarded as the technical genius behind the sound of the Beatles...Producer: Paula McGinley

Sister Wendy Beckett, Nicolas Roeg, Inge Borkh, Professor Sir Aaron Klug, Geoff Emerick

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the nun, writer and broadcaster Sister Wendy Beckett.For over 40 years she's lived the life of a hermit, rising every day at midnight to spend seven hours praying. Her home is a caravan in the grounds of a Carmelite Monastery where she spends her days in silence - speaking only once a day to the nun charged with delivering her daily food rations of skimmed milk, cold cooked vegetables and two rice crackers.Her self-imposed isolation has only been broken by the - frankly rather unlikely - occurrence of a television career. She is the nun who knows about art and her passionate and pithy critiques of the world's great works and hidden treasures have won her many devoted fans. With decades of solitude and prayer under her belt she seems, unlike nearly every other guest, to be perfectly cut out for a stretch alone on a desert island.She says "It's my apostolic duty to talk about art. If you don't know about God, art is the only thing that can set you free". Producer: Christine Pawlowsky.

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the nun, writer and broadcaster Sister Wendy Beckett. For over 40 years she's lived the life of a hermit, rising every day at midnight to spend seven hours praying. Her home is a caravan in the grounds of a Carmelite Monastery where she spends her days in silence - speaking only once a day to the nun charged with delivering her daily food rations of skimmed milk, cold cooked vegetables and two rice crackers. Her self-imposed isolation has only been broken by the - frankly rather unlikely - occurrence of a television career. She is the nun who knows about art and her passionate and pithy critiques of the world's great works and hidden treasures have won her many devoted fans. With decades of solitude and prayer under her belt she seems, unlike nearly every other guest, to be perfectly cut out for a stretch alone on a desert island. She says "It's my apostolic duty to talk about art. If you don't know about God, art is the only thing that can set you free". Producer: Christine Pawlowsky.