Desert Island Discs - Ian McMillan
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Poet and broadcaster Ian McMillan joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs.
Kirsty Young's castaway is the poet and broadcaster Ian McMillan.
Thirty years ago he was working in a factory gluing together tennis ball halves. Then he got a grant, chucked in his job and devoted himself to writing and performing.
These days he's known as the Bard of Barnsley and his appeal stretches from the terraces of his local football club to the balcony of the London Coliseum... he is poet in residence at both Barnsley FC and the English National Opera...
He still lives in the village where he was born and he considers and analyses British culture from his very particular vantage point in south Yorkshire.
He says: "You can do the universal in the local, I always think. You can see all the changes that have happened all over the world in the 20th and 21st centuries in microcosm."
Producer: Leanne Buckle
Record: 4' 33" - John Cage Book: The Long and The Short of It: Poems 1955-2005 by Roy Fisher Luxury: A tandem bike with wooden models of his family on the front.
- Broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 9:00AM Fri, 12 Nov 2010
- Available until 12:00AM Thu, 1 Jan 2099
- First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 11:15AM Sun, 7 Nov 2010
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- Duration 45 minutes
