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Michael Mansfield

Duration:: 45 minutes

First broadcast:: Sunday 17 October 2010

Kirsty Young's castaway is the barrister Michael Mansfield.

He is one of Britain's leading QCs - the Birmingham six, the Marchioness disaster, the Stephen Lawrence trial and the death of Jean Charles de Menezes are only a handful of the high profile cases he's been involved in.

He describes himself as a 'radical lawyer' and says he's been educated by the cases he's taken on. He has become, he says, increasingly angry and radical over the years. "I do feel that reputation, standing up for principle, is one of the few ways in which a difference can be made."

Record: The Goons - What's the Time, Eccles?
Book: The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine as his Bible: and
The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz
Luxury: A drum kit.

Pink Floyd Another Brick in the Wall
Composer: Waters
Pink Floyd: A Collection of Great Dance Songs, EMI
Sir Edward Elgar Enigma Variations - Nimrod
Artist: The Massed Bands conducted by Lt Colonel Graham Jones, Senior Director of Music Guards Division.
From Radio 4’s coverage of the Ceremony of Remembrance from the Cenotaph on 9 November 2008.
Sergey Vasilievich Rachmaninov Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor
Artist: Jean-Bernard Pommier - with the Halle Orchestra conducted by Lawrence Foster
Tchaikovsky/Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos: Jean-Bernard Pommier, Virgin Classic
Benjamin Zephaniah The Death of Joy Gardner
Composer: Benjamin Zephaniah
Reggae Head, 57 Productions
The Goons What’s The Time, Eccles?
Composer: Milligan
The Last Goon Show of All, BBC
Iona Rowan (on vocals & guitar) & Freddy Vanson Won’t Wait for Hope
Composer: Poetry by Freddy Vanson
The World Citizens Sessions 2010, Vol.1, Homegrownsounds
Herbert Howells The opening of the Requiem
Artist: St John’s College, Cambridge choir led by Christopher Robinson
Howells: Choral Works, Naxos
Antonio Forcione Touch Wood
Composer: Forcione
Touch Wood, NAIMCD 069

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