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Steve Coogan

Duration:: 45 minutes

First broadcast:: Sunday 11 October 2009

Kirsty Young's castaway is the comedian and actor Steve Coogan. As a child he found he had a knack for impressions, a talent which led him to work on Spitting Image. Recently he has also found success in films, but is best known for the comic monster he created - Alan Partridge. The chatshow host in Pringle jumper and slacks made us cringe with his crass questions and witless interventions and has remained one of our most enduring comic anti-heroes.

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

Favourite track: We Have All the Time in the World by Louis Armstrong
Book: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
Luxury: Fully-restored Morris Minor Traveller with wooden detail.

Siouxsie and the Banshees Hong Kong Garden
Once Upon a Time, Polydor
Louis Armstrong We Have All the Time in the World
The Best Sixties Album in the World Ever, Virgin
The Mock Turtles Wickerman
Turtle Soup, Imaginary
Talking Heads (Nothing But) Flowers
(Nothing But) Flowers, EMI
Happy Mondays Hallelujah
Bummed, Rhino
Sir Edward Elgar Enigma Variations - Nimrod
Soloist: Julian Lloyd Webber Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor: Sir Yehudi Menuhin
Elgar: Cello Concerto, Philips
Joni Mitchell California
Blue, Reprise
The Smiths Panic
The World Won’t Listen, Rough Trade

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