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Professor Jim Al-Khalili

Duration:: 45 minutes

First broadcast:: Sunday 14 February 2010

Kirsty Young's castaway is the physicist Professor Jim Al-Khalili.

He's spent his adult life studying sub-atomic particles - and trying to explain them to the rest of us. He fell in love with physics when he was a teenager growing up in Iraq. With an Iraqi father and English mother, the Baghdad he spent his early years in was cosmopolitan and vibrant but, once Saddam Hussein came to power, his parents realised the family would have to flee, and he has lived and worked in Britain for the past 30 years.

Record: She's Not There by Santana
Book: The Road to Reality by Roger Penrose
Luxury: Acoustic guitar.

Santana She’s Not There
Santana: Ultimate Collection, Columbia
Rolf Harris Two Little Boys
The Best of Rolf Harris, EMI
The Beatles The Things We Said Today
A Hard Day’s Night/Things We Said Today, Parlophone
Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov The beginning of Scheherazade
Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor: Takuo Yuasa
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, EMI
The Temptations I Wish It Would Rain
The Temptations: Anthology, Tamla Motown
Frank Sinatra Brazil
Come Fly with Me, Capitol
John Williams Concierto de Aranjuez
Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez., CBS
Oasis Wonderwall
Wonderwall, Creation

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