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Sarah Doukas

Duration:: 45 minutes

First broadcast:: Sunday 10 October 2010

Kirsty Young's castaway is the founder of Storm model agency, Sarah Doukas.

She has never, she says, had a normal career - after running away from school, she ran bric-a-brac stalls in London and Paris and then lived in America before returning to Britain. She enjoyed a stint as a model herself (her speciality, at only five feet two inches tall, was perching on car bonnets so they seemed bigger in advertising pictures). But she discovered she had a knack for spotting future talent and is best known for finding a 14 year old Kate Moss and turning her into an international star. "I'm a terrible old rocker" she says, "I always knew my life would be unconventional."

Producer: Leanne Buckle

Record: Mercy Mercy Me by Marvin Gaye
Book: The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin
Luxury: A photo album of all my family.

Marvin Gaye Mercy Mercy Me
Composer: Marvin Gaye
Best of Marvin Gaye, Motown
Enrico Caruso O Sole Mio
Composer: Di Capua
Caruso in Song, Nimbus
Small Faces Itchycoo Park
Composer: Steve Marriott/Ronnie Lane
Best Sixties album in the world, EMI
Leonard Cohen Suzanne
Composer: L Cohen
Leonard Cohen: Greatest Hits, Columbia
Otis Redding (Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay
Composer: Otis Redding/Steve Cropper
Best Sixties album in the world, EMI
Richard Hawley Open Up Your Door
Composer: Richard Hawley
Richard Hawley Truelove’s Gutter, Mute
Caetano Veloso Cucurrucucu Paloma
Composer: Alberto Iglesias & Vicente Amigo
Hable Con Ella, Milan
Miles Davis The Doo Bop Song
Composer: Miles Davis, Easy Mo Bee
Miles Davis: Doo-Bop, Warner

BBC Radio 4Sun 10 Oct 2010 11:15 BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4Fri 15 Oct 2010 09:00 BBC Radio 4

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