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This Week's Guest:
Pat Barker
Sunday 7 December
Repeated
Friday 12 December | | |  |
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This week Sue Lawley's castaway is the Booker prize-winning novelist Pat Barker. Pat Barker was 39 when she had the phone call every writer dreams about - her first book, Union Street, was to be published. The book went on to be made into a film, Stanley and Iris, with Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep.Initially she wrote about the hard lives of working class, northern women, and the compromises some made in order to survive. But she became a household name for her Regeneration trilogy about World War I and its aftermath - the final book in the series, The Ghost Road, won the 1995 Booker prize.
In Desert Island Discs she discusses her writing, her inspiration, the importance of her grandparents in her upbringing and what it was like growing up as a 'mistake' -- a war-time baby born to her unmarried mother.
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1. I KNOW WHERE I'M GOIN'
Performer: Kathleen Ferrier
Composer: Trad. Arr. Hughes & adpt. Gray
Publisher: Blackhill Music/London Publ. House
CD Title: Blow The Wind Southerly
Track: 6
Label: DECCA
Rec No: 417 192-2
2. OVER THE RAINBOW
Performer: Judy Garland
Composer: Harold Arlen; E.Y. Harburg
CD Title: The Wizard of Oz - the Original Cast Album
Track: 2
Label: CBS Special Products
Rec No: Ak 45356
3. KEEP YOUR FEET STILL GEORDIE HINNY
Performer: Johnny Handle; Tommy Gilfellon, accompanied by The High Level Ranters Orchestra
Composer: Joe Wilson
LP Title: The High Level Ranters presents The Very Best of Tyneside Songs
Track: 1
Label: Leader Sound Ltd.
Rec No: LER 2020-A
4. BLOWIN' IN THE WIND
Performer: Bob Dylan
Composer: Bob Dylan
CD Title: Greatest Hits
Track: 2
Label: CBS
Rec No: 450882 2
5. DAWN (THE FIRST OF BRITTEN'S SEA INTERLUDES)
Performer: City of London Sinfonia, conducted by Richard Hickox
Composer: Benjamin Britten
CD Title: Peter Grimes
Track: 1
Label: CHANDOS
Rec No: CHAN 9447/8
6. PROFISCERE, ANIMA CHRISTIANA
Performer: John Shirley Quirk with the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Benjamin Britten
Composer: Elgar
CD Title: The Dream of Gerontius, Part I
Track: 6
Label: LONDON
Rec No: 421 381-2
7. GASSED LAST NIGHT
Performer: Theatre Workshop under direction from Joan Littelwood; Charles Chilton
Composer: Trad.
Arranger: Chilton
Publisher: That's Entertainment
LP Title: Oh What A Lovely War - Original London Cast
Track: 2, Side 2
Label: That's Entertainment
Rec No: TER 1043
8. IT'S A GIFT TO BE SIMPLE
Performer: San Francisco Symphony Orchestra conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas
Composer: Copland
CD Title: Copland - The Populist
Track: 2
Label: RCA Red Seal
Rec No: 09026 63511 2
Record: Dawn
Book: Book on tropical fish to identify them
Luxury: Snorkelling equipment
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