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Last broadcast on Fri, 30 Dec 2011, 09:00 on BBC Radio 4.
Synopsis
Kirsty Young's castaway is the scientist Professor Brian Cox.
In the press he's been called 'the pin-up professor' and his enormously popular TV series have been credited with creating the 'Brian Cox effect' - a surge in the number of would-be scientists applying to university. As a teenager he decided he wanted to be a rock star; he toured the world as a member of the band Dare and performed on Top of the Pops with his second group D:Ream.
He says:"I hope, we're beginning to treat ideas almost like we treated rock and roll - I hope so, it would be wonderful, wouldn't it, if ideas were the new rock and roll?"
Producer: Corinna Jones.
Music played
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David Bowie
— Queen BitchComposer: Bowie
Hunky Dory, EMI -
Frank Sinatra
— Come Fly with MeComposer: Sammy Cahn and James Van Heusen
The Wonderful World of Frank Sinatra 1952-1960, Remember -
The Jam
— Going UndergroundComposer: Weller
The Jam: Greatest Hits, Polydor -
Duran Duran
— Friends of MineComposer: Nick Rhodes, Andrew Taylor, Roger Taylor & Simon le Bon
Live at Hammersmith 82, EMI -
Dare — King of Spades
Composer: Darren Wharton
Out Of The Silence, Universal -
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
— MessagesComposer: Omd
The Best of OMD., Virgin -
Clem Snide — Moment in the Sun
Composer: E.Barzelay
Delicatessen 4 CD1, Cooking Vinyl -
Billy Joel
— New York State of MindComposer: Joel
Billy Joel: Greatest Hits Volume, CBS
Broadcast
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Fri 30 Dec 201109:00
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