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Desert Island Discs
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This Week's Guest:
Sam Taylor -Wood

Sunday 16 January
Repeated
Friday 21 January
Sam's Choice

                                      Photo by Johnnie Shand-Kydd

Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the artist Sam Taylor-Wood.

She is known for her photography and short films - including David- a film of the footballer David Beckham sleeping and her 365 degree photograph that was wrapped around the Selfridges store in central London - and is one half of art's most glamorous couple - her husband is the art dealer Jay Jopling.

Her route into art was scattered and uncertain. Although she knew she wanted to study art, she  ended up taking a BTech in fashion before studying art at Goldsmiths. In 1997 she was awarded a prize as the most promising new artist at the Venice Biennale - but the same year saw the birth of her daughter and within months she was diagnosed with colon cancer. She fought it off only to find within a few years, that she was suffering from breast cancer. She emerged from illness with a major show at the Haywood Gallery - said to be the youngest person to be granted a retrospective there. She now says that her illness has given her a drive to keep working - and to do whatever seems the most fun.



1.Tiny Dancer
Performer Elton John and Bernie Taupin
Composer Elton John and Bernie Taupin
Publisher Dick James music
CD Title Madman across the water
Track 1
Label DJM
Rec No:8254872

2.Wild is the Wind
Performer Nina Simone
Composer D Tomkin/N Washington
Publisher Polygram records
CD Title Gold
Track CD2 trk12
Label Universal
Rec No:9808087

3.Sympathy for the Devil
Performer Rolling Stones
Composer Mick Jagger and Keith Richards
Publisher ABKCO
CD Title Sympathy for the Devil
Track 3
Label ABKCO
Rec No:9810612

4.Ah, Se Intorno a Quest'urna Funesta ( Ah, lovely Euridice, if your Spirit still hovers over this tomb)
Performer Jochen Kowalski with members of the Berlin Radio Chorus and Chamber Orchestra
Composer Gluck
Publisher Delta music
CD Title Orfeo and Euridice
Track Cd1 trk 2
Label Capriccio
Rec No:60 008-2

5.Tonada de Luna Llena
Performer Caetano Veloso
Composer Simon Diaz
Publisher Polyram
CD Title Fina Estampa
Track 10
Label Philips
Rec No:522 745-2
 
6. Black Hair
Performer Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Composer Nick Cave
Publisher Mute music
CD Title The Boatman's Call
Track 9
Label Mute
Rec No:CDS TUMM142

7.One
Performer Johnny Cash
Composer U2
Publisher American recordings
CD Title American. Vol 3: Solitary Man
Track 4
Label American
Rec No:586 7922

8.Vibrate
Performer Rufus Wainwright
Composer Rufus Wainwright
Publisher SKG Music
CD Title Want One
Track 7
Label:Dreamworks
Rec No:4505041

Record: Tiny Dancer - Elton John
Book:   Birthday Letters :Poems -Ted Hughes
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