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Last broadcast on Fri, 20 Nov 2009, 09:00 on BBC Radio 4 (see all broadcasts).
Synopsis
Kirsty Young's castaway is the children's author Julia Donaldson.
The Gruffalo is her best known creation. Published ten years ago, it's become a modern classic; it has sold more than four million copies, won an armful of awards and been turned into a film. But Julia nearly gave up when she was half way through writing it, and only the encouragement of her son persuaded her to continue. Its latest accolade is that BBC listeners have just voted it their favourite book for reading out loud at bedtime.
Record: An Die Music, sung by Felicity Lott
Book: Poem for the Day
Luxury: A piano.
Julia Donaldson
The opening of Beethoven’s Sonata No.5 in F Major
Performer Yehudi Menuhin accompanied by his sister Hephzibah Menuhin
Composer Beethoven
CD Title Beethoven: Sonatas Nos. 5 & 9…
Track Side 2 trk 2
Label HMV SXLP 30164
La Foule
Performer Edith Piaf
Composer Michel Rivgauche/Angel Cabral
CD Title Salle D’Attente/La Foule
Track Side 2
Label COLUMBIA SCRF 275
Part of the third movement of Haydn’s Piano Trio in G Major
Performer The Beaux Arts Trio
Composer Haydn
CD Title Haydn: Piano Trios. Beaux Arts Trio
Track 6
Label PHILIPS 422831 2
Slow Train
Performer Michael Flanders & Donald Swann
Composer Flanders and Swann
CD Title At the Drop of Another Hat: Michael Flanders & Donald Swann
Track 12
Label EMI S7974642
An Die Music
Performer Felicity Lott with Graham Johnson (piano)
Composer Schubert
CD Title Felicity Lott sings Schubert
Track 6
Label IMP PCD 2016 S7974642
Cochon Blues
Performer Malcolm Donaldson
Composer Julia Donaldson
CD Title First Fourteen –Julia and Malcolm Donaldson
Track 9
Label Info.from www.juliadonaldson.co.uk/firstfourteen
Rec No Longman records
Remembering Marie A
Performer David Bowie
Composer Traditional adapted by Bertolt Brecht
CD Title Baal by Bertolt Brecht
Track Side 1 trk 2
Label RCA BOW 11
Recorder Sonata in F Major
Performer Michala Petri with the Academy of St Martin-in-the Fields Chamber Ensemble
Composer Handel
CD Title Handel: Recorder Sonatas
Track 14
Label PHILIPS 4126022
Broadcasts
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Sun 15 Nov 200911:15
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Fri 20 Nov 200909:00
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