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Dame Stephanie Shirley

Duration:: 45 minutes

First broadcast:: Sunday 23 May 2010

Entrepreneur Dame Stephanie Shirley joins Kirsty Young on Desert Island Discs.

As a child, she escaped Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport - travelling across Europe for two days in a train with a thousand children and just two adults. She went on to set up a computer programming company which made her a millionaire many times over. But she has given away most of her fortune and now is an ambassador for philanthropy. Her determination throughout it all, she says, has been to prove that hers was a life worth saving.

Record: Mozart- Sonata in C, K. 545
Book: AA Milne - Winnie The Pooh
Luxury: Mother and Child by Henry Moore.

Johann Sebastian Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 In D Major
Soloist: Christianne Jaccottet, Christine Sartoretti Orchestra: Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Conductor: Jörg Faerber
Complete Concerti, Orchestral Suites, Vox Box
Franz Schubert Heidenröslein, D257
Soloist: Teresa Stich-Randall
Lieder De Mozart et Schubert, Accord
Edvard Grieg Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in A Minor, op. 54
Soloist: Géza Anda Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor: Rafael Kubelik
Piano Concertos, Deutsche Grammophon
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Sonata in C
Soloist: Sviatoslav Richter
Piano Sonatas K.282, K.545 and K.310, Philips
Franz Schubert Piano Quintet in A major 'Trout'
Soloist: Daniel Barenboim, Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman, Jacqueline du Pre, Zubin Mehta
The Trout, Opus Arte
The Beathovens Summer’s Child
Beathovens - PRIVATE TAPE.
Joseph Haydn Piano Sonata in E flat major
Soloist: Marc-André Hamelin
Piano Sonata II, Hyperion
Gerald Finzi Five Bagatelles, Op. 23a
Orchestra: Northern Sinfonia
Clarinet Concerto, Naxos

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