2026-10-05
3 分钟Hello, I'm Lauren Laverne and this is Desert Island Discs Postcards.
Each year we take a short break,
which is the perfect time for us to delve into our archive and revisit some of our favourite castaways with you.
The postcard arriving in your letterbox today comes from Greta Gerwig, who directed the blockbuster Barbie
and became the first woman in cinema history to have the sole director's credit for a billion dollar film.
When she spoke to me in 2023, she told me that she grew up in a culturally ravenous family whose eclectic record
collection she took a lot of inspiration from.
It was like Steve Martin's standup album and stuff like it was just this connection
to other things like music and comedy and theater.
And it was we had recordings of plays, which they used to put on records.
And then they would take me to everything that there was.
I mean, there was a symphony in Sacramento, which we went all the time.
It was like a lot of like.
Let's go to absolutely everything there is to offer in Sacramento.
And then my dad had a couple
of work trips to New York and I went to New York and I have very formative memories.
There was almost a version of this list that had, I saw it 42nd Street.
It must have been 1990, 1989, 1990. I was about five.
The rush tickets, you're always in the front row because...
You know, nobody wants to stand up.