BBC - BBC Radio 4 Programmes - Desert Island Discs, Nick Park

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Last broadcast on Fri, 24 Dec 2010, 09:00 on BBC Radio 4 (FM only) (see all broadcasts).

Synopsis

Kirsty Young's castaway is the Oscar-winning animator Nick Park.

His most famous creations are Wallace and Gromit: Gromit the silent but wise dog; Wallace, his well meaning owner with notably less brain-power. They now hold the same place in the nation's heart at Christmas that Morcambe and Wise once occupied. They are old-fashioned and quintessentially British - as familiar as bread and butter, or hoping the rain holds off - but their appeal is international.

The world they inhabit is one of Jacobs cream crackers and tea-strainers - so it's little surprise that in real life too Nick Park's own creature comforts are modest: "The thing is, I have everything I want really. I've got my little house, I've got a campervan, I love the British countryside, I'm not after yachts or things like that."

Record: I Forgot that Love Existed - Van Morrison
Book: A Collins Bird book
Luxury: My own 'Amazing pair of binoculars'

Producer: Leanne Buckle.

Music played

Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel — Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)

Composer: Steve Harley
The Best Years of Our Lives, BGO
Neil Young — Four Strong Winds

Composer: Ian Tyson
Neil Young: Comes a Time, Reprise
Elvis Costello — Every Day I Write the Book

Composer: Costello
Very Best of Elvis Costello, UNIVERSAL MUSIC
The Proclaimers — Sunshine on Leith

Composer: Reid/Reid
Best of the Proclaimers, Persevere
John Shuttleworth — Fleece the World

Composer: Graham Fellows
One Foot in the Gravy, LAUGHING STOCK
Bob Dylan — Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands

Composer: B Dylan
Blonde on Blonde, CBS
Van Morrison — I Forgot That Love Existed

Composer: Van Morrison
Poetic Champions Compose, Mercury
Joe Rose — Plain Song

Composer: Joe Rose