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David Mitchell

Duration:: 45 minutes

First broadcast:: Sunday 19 July 2009

Kirsty Young's castaway is comedian David Mitchell. Mitchell has won two Bafta awards and, as a sitcom actor, sketch show writer and humorous columnist, has never been in greater demand.

But as a child, Mitchell was sure he wasn't funny and it was only when he was at university, he says, that he learnt how to have fun. It is now just the rest of his life that Mitchell needs to address - beginning, he says, by tidying up his flat and then, maybe, even getting a girlfriend.

[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

Favourite track: Rainbow Connection by Jim Henson
Book: Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh
Luxury: DVDs of sitcoms and DVD player.

Katrina and the Waves Walking on Sunshine
Drive Time 2, Dino Entertainment
Acker Bilk Stranger on the Shore
The Greatest Hits of 1961, Premier
Radiohead Creep
The Best of the Nineties So far, EMI
Arcangelo Corelli The Adagio (from Concerto No.8 in G Minor, the theme music to Master & Commander)
Master and Commander - the Far Side of the World, Decca
Crash Test Dummies Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm, RCA
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass Spanish Flea
Herb Alpert: Definitive Hits, A & M
Sir Edward Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor
Soloist: Jacqueline du Pre Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Sir John Barbirolli
Elgar:Cello Concerto.Sea Pictures-Du Pre, EMI
Jim Henson Rainbow Connection
The Muppet Show: The 25th Anniversary Collection, Rhino

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