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Michael McIntyre

Duration:: 45 minutes

First broadcast:: Sunday 17 July 2011

Michael McIntyre interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs.

In less than five years he's gone from being an unknown stand-up with debts of more than £30,000 to become one of the most successful comedians in the business - with awards, chart topping DVDs and sell-out arena shows under his belt.

He says: "I was on the circuit for years, I did get more and more in debt - it really did drag on and I just couldn't get a break. But when my chance came, I'd envisaged it so many times, I wasn't even nervous. I knew I could do it."

Record: Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered - Ella Fitzgerald
Book: The Complete Prose of Woody Allen.
Luxury: A pen

Producer: Leanne Buckle.

Massive Attack Unfinished Sympathy
Composer: Del Naja/Vowles/Marshall/Nelson/Sharp
Blue Lines, Circa Records
Supertramp The Logical Song
Composer: Rick Davies/ Roger Hodgson
Breakfast in America, A & M
Aretha Franklin Don’t Play that Song
Composer: Betty Nelson/Ahmet Ertegun
Aretha Franklin: 30 Greatest Hits, Atlantic
Steve Miller Band Abracadabra
Composer: Steve Miller
Abracadabra, Mercury
Nat King Cole Smile
Composer: Chaplin/Turner/Parsons
Nat King Cole 20 Golden Greats, EMI
The Rolling Stones Miss You
Composer: Jagger/ Richards
The Best of the Rolling Stones, Virgin
John Lennon Oh Yoko!
Composer: John Lennon
Imagine, Parlophone
Ella Fitzgerald Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
Composer: Richard Rogers/Lorenz Hart
Ella Fitzgerald...at the Opera House, Verve

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