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Anthony Julius

Duration:: 45 minutes

First broadcast:: Friday 13 November 2009

Kirsty Young's castaway is the lawyer and writer Anthony Julius. He was already renowned in legal circles when, in 1996, he moved into the public arena, representing Princess Diana in her divorce. He became her confidante and, after her death, one of the founders of her memorial fund. Of the high profile cases he has fought, he says. "You're on a higher wire, stared at by a larger number of people, but in the end, the only audience that matters is your own client."

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

Favourite track: The Promise of Living by Aaron Copland
Book: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Luxury: San Pellegrino water on tap.

Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 30 in E major, Op. 109
Soloist: Maurizio Pollini
Beethoven: The Late Piano Sonatas, Deutsche Grammophon
Ralph Vaughan Williams The Call (from Five Mystical Songs)
Soloist: Thomas Allen
Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music, Hyperion
Chicago 25 or 6 to 4
Chicago XI, Columbia
Claude Debussy String Quartet in G minor - 2nd movement
Orchestra: The Talich Quartet
Debussy/Ravel/Quatuors, Calliope
Phyllis Chapell Jerusalem of Gold
World Songs, Orchard
Stevie Wonder Fingertips
The Definitive Collection, Universal Music
Gioachino Rossini Petite messe solennelle
Soloist: Cecilia Gasdia, Bernarda Fink, Vincenzo La Scola, Francesco Ellero D’Artegna, Luciano Sgrizzi, Jean-Francois Antonioli Orchestra: Ensemble Vocal de Lausanne Conductor: Michel Corboz
Rossini: Petite Messe Solennelle, Errato
Aaron Copland The Promise of Living (from The Tender Land suite)
Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Aaron Copland
Copland: Appalachian Spring, RCA

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