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Mark Gatiss

Duration:: 45 minutes

First broadcast:: Sunday 23 October 2011

Kirsty Young's castaway is the writer and actor Mark Gatiss.

His childhood passions have fuelled his adult creative life. As a boy he says he was drawn towards the macabre and gothic - while his teachers remarked that his school essays resembled scripts for Hammer horror films. He has written for - and acted in - Dr Who, was one of the creators of The League of Gentlemen and his re-imagining of Sherlock Holmes for a contemporary TV audience was a huge success.

He says: "When I was a kid, anything supernatural drew me, I would try and find it in anything - Gardeners' Question Time - I would look for something."

Producer: Leanne Buckle.

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Composer: Morrissey and Marr
The Smiths: Singles, WEA 4509990902
John Barry The theme to On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
Composer: John Barry
The Best Of Bond 30th Anniversary, Capitol
Shirley Jones (and Gordon MacRae) If I Loved You from the soundtrack to Carousel
Composer: Rodgers and Hammerstein
Carousel, Angel
Ralph Vaughan Williams Ralph Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Artist: The Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Herbert Von Karajan
Karajan Edition: Britten:.Vaughan Williams:.Stravinsky, EMI
Rufus Wainwright Beautiful Child
Composer: Rufus Wainwright
Rufus Wainwright – Want One, Dreamworks
Su Pollard Come to Me (I am woman)
Composer: E Howel /D Dundaas
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McAlmont & Butler Yes
Composer: McAlmont /Butler
Best Anthems Ever, Virgin
Marin Mazzie So In Love from the Broadway cast recording of Kiss Me, Kate
Composer: Cole Porter
Kiss Me Kate, DRG

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