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Last broadcast on Fri, 29 May 2009, 09:00 on BBC Radio 4 (see all broadcasts).
Synopsis
Kirsty Young's castaway is the comedian and performer Barry Humphries.
For decades he has enjoyed global fame with his grotesque comic creations, the Melbourne housewife Dame Edna Everage and the drunken cultural attache Sir Les Patterson.
Off stage, though, his life has been spent immersed in literature, music and the arts, and he says that his time spent on the desert island would allow him to devote himself to painting.
Record: Songs of Sunset
Book: The Melbourne Street Directory - an old version
Luxury: My paints.
Barry Humphries
Mir ist die Ehre widerfahren
Performer Anne Sofie Von Otter & Barbara Hendricks
Composer Strauss
CD Title Der Rosenkavalier
Track Cd2 Trk 4
Label EMI CDS7542592
Things are Looking up
Performer Fred Astaire
Composer Gershwin
CD Title Crazy for Gershwin
Track 4
Label MEMOIR CDMOIR502
Love Song
Performer Ruggiero Ricci with Noriko Shiozaki
Composer Josef Suk
CD Title Hidden Treasures
Track 7
Label DYNAMIC Rec No CDS298
On Mother Kelly’s Doorstep
Performer Randolph Sutton
CD Title On Mother Kelly’s Doorstep
Track Side 1 trk 1
Label ACE OF CLUBS ACL 1266
Der Leiermann – the Organ Grinder from Schubert’s Winterreise song cycle.
Performer Peter Anders with Michael Raucheisen on the piano recorded in Berlin in 1945
Composer Schubert
CD Title 1945.Schubert:Winterreise…
Track 24
Label DG 459 009-2
2nd movement of Poulenc’s Flute Sonata
Performer Patrick Gallois
Composer Poulenc
CD Title French Flute Music
Track 2
Label NAXOS 8557328
Auf Wiedersehen
Performer Mischa Spoliansky & Felix Joachimson
Composer Mischa Spoliansky
CD Title So Rare 3 Barry Humphries from the Bill Armstrong Collection.
Track Cd3 trk 26
Label Bilarm BAC25
Songs of Sunset:They are not long, the weeping & the laughter
Performer Nancy Evans, Redvers Llewellyn, BBC Chorus with the London Philharmonic conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham
Composer Delius -Poem Ernest Dowson
CD Title Beecham collection: Delius
Track 10
Label SOMMBEECHAM8
Broadcasts
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Sun 24 May 200910:00
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Sun 24 May 200911:15
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Fri 29 May 200909:00
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