Book: "That’s obviously the most difficult choice. Bringing an e-book reader is no option, I guess – or does the island have electricity? So I’d go for a novel that I haven’t read yet, by an author that I know I cannot fail with. Joseph Conrad, perhaps?"
Record: "A no brainer: Any of the eight records J.J. Cale made in the seventies or early eighties would do. I am periodically digging them out and listen to them time and again. Extremely relaxed stuff. That cannot be wrong if you’re alone on that desert island."

Film: "Yeelen ("the Light"), a 1987 film from Mali. A coming-of-age story set in the lights and landscape of Western Africa. With a plot partly fantastic, partly reminiscent of ancient Greek myths. It blew me off when I first saw it as strange and at the same attractive. Possibly I feel some affinity for Yeelen’s visual language because the director, Souleymane Cissé, had studied with Soviet filmmakers in the 1960s. Be that as it may, it is shown very rarely these days and I expect to see loads of new things every time I watch it on the desert island."