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Last broadcast on Sat, 19 Nov 2011, 09:00 on BBC Radio 4.
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Richard Coles with the filmmaker Sir Alan Parker, Fergus Anckorn whose life was saved by a magic trick, and Fiona who had to tell her children she was likely to be sent to jail. JP Devlin shuffles through Kirsty Young's mp3 player to reveal her musical choices and textile designer and David Hockney muse Celia Birtwell shares her Inheritance Tracks.
Producer: Sukey Firth.
STUDIO GUEST :: SIR ALAN PARKER
Sir Alan Parker's films have won nineteen BAFTA awards, ten Golden Globes and ten Oscars. Bugsy Malone - the ganster story he wrote originally for his own children, is published as a HarperCollins essential modern classic.
FIONA :: PRISONER MUM
Fiona was sentenced to three years for wounding with intent to cause GBH after a fight with her then partner. She talks to Richard about her crime: "It's an important reminder of how stupid people can be on the spur of the moment."
DESERT ISLAND DISCS :: 70TH ANNIVERSARY
To celebrate the anniversary in January 2012 the BBC is inviting YOU to join in. Tell us the story behind the one track you'd save from the waves. As a curtain raiser reporter JP Devlin shuffles through Desert Island Discs’ presenter Kirsty Young’s MP3 player.
FERGUS ANCKORN :: MAGIC SAVED MY LIFE
93 year old Fergus Anckorn's life was saved by a magic trick as a Japanese POW. He's the oldest (and was once the youngest) member of the Magic Circle. "The Conjuror on the Kwai" is publised by Pen & Sword Books
INHERITANCE TRACKS :: CELIA BIRTWELL
Textile designer Celia Birtwell. With husband Ossie Clark she dressed the stars of the 60s and 70s and features in one of the UK's most loved paintings: David Hockney's 'Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy'. Her book, 'Celia Birtwell', is published by Quadrille.
POET :: KATE FOX
POEM :: A Northern Rock Nativity
In Newcastle there has been a Virgin birth,
747million quid is what it is worth,
People are travelling from afar
To follow Richard Branson's star
Shepherds and kings, will have him to thank,
Though you may struggle to find wise men
in a bank.
POEM :: Misdirection
Abracadabra ala Kazam
Findus pancakes and boiled spam
Magical thinking, Magical thinking
Children can change the world by blinking:
Most of us haven't grown out of that yet.
Some treat the world like their own Lego set
Think Nuclear war is a game not a threat,
A python will make a really good pet
We can vanish the Eurozone's debt.
Snap our fingers, shake hands and just forget,
It's not our fault the earth's got more hot and more wet.
Starlight and trapdoors,avoiding the cracks
and dry ice and mirrors and virtual tax
false bottoms and smoke and credit card tricks
and disasters that even magic can't fix.
Whip the cloth from a fully laid table,
Marvel at the powers possessed by Vince Cable,
How he can saw unemployment in half,
with a waft of a wand and a swirl of a scarf
Magical thinking, Magical thinking
By shutting your eyes, you'll stop the ship sinking.
Hey Presto!
England's a branch of the world's biggest Tesco!
Meat just appears on our plates- how's about that?
If you only eat quickly you cannot get fat.
Fearnley Whittingstall pulling rabbits out of a hat.
Magical thinking,Magical thinking
Done by our children we say it's naive
but how many adults don't still believe?
CHILDREN IN NEED :: SATURDAY LIVE GUESTBOOK
The Saturday Live Studio Guest Book, signed by numerous celebrities including Rolf Harris, Michael Morpurgo, Cerys Matthews, Gary Kemp, Joan Bakewell and Tom Hollander, is up for auction for this year’s Children in Need.
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