BBC - BBC Radio 4 Programmes - Desert Island Discs, Danny Baker

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Last broadcast on Fri, 5 Aug 2011, 09:00 on BBC Radio 4 (see all broadcasts).

Synopsis

Kirsty Young's castaway is the broadcaster and writer Danny Baker.

He is a Sony Gold award winning broadcaster with one of the most recognisable voices on our airwaves and his numerous radio and TV shows have brought him legions of fans. As a writer, he has put words in the mouths of Jeremy Clarkson, Ricky Gervais, Chris Evans and even the legendary George Burns.

Despite the successes, he says he's never plotted his next career move: "No plan - certainly no plan - you've only got to look at the incredible way this is all botched together and yet I don't feel that's somehow lucky when you look around at some of the half-wits and boss-eyed bozos who people this business - and they're running departments. All of this is an ant-hill that somebody's kicked over, and I happen to be one of the more bumptious ants."

Record: I've Grown Accustomed to her Face
Book: The Most of S J Perelman
Luxury: My blue suede shoes

Producer: Leanne Buckle.

Music played

Helen Shapiro — Marvellous Lie

Composer: B Lewis/N Paramor
Marvellous Lie/You don’t Know, Columbia
Dean Martin — A Day in the Country

Composer: Fain/Webster
Hollywood or Bust, Capitol
Max Bygraves — Underneath the Arches

Composer: Flanagan
Best of Max Bygraves, Spectrum
Peter Sellers — I’m So Ashamed

Composer: Hare
I’m so Ashamed/A Drop of the Hard Stuff, Parlophone
Bing Crosby — Ain’t got a Dime to My Name

Composer: Burke/Van Heusen
Hits of ‘43, Empress
Tommy Steele — What a Mouth (What a North and South)

Composer: Weston
Tommy Steele: The Decca Years, Decca
Bernard Cribbins — I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face (from My Fair Lady)

Composer: Frederick Loewe / Alan Jay Lerner
The Very Best of Bernard Cribbins, EMI Gold
Cliff Richard — The Next Time

Composer: Springer/Kaye
30 Years of Number Ones Vol 3., Connoisseur Collectio