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Patsy Rodenburg

Duration:: 45 minutes

First broadcast:: Sunday 04 March 2012

Kirsty Young's castaway is the renowned voice coach Patsy Rodenburg.

Her work at the National Theatre and the RSC has spanned decades and her students include Dame Judi Dench, Sir Ian McKellen, Dame Maggie Smith and Daniel Day Lewis. But her work takes her away from the stage too - she has coached politicians and helped offenders in prison. She says: "I did some work on Hamlet in a top security prison and the guy playing Claudius was a murderer and he spoke, 'Oh my offence is rank, it smells to heaven', and he just broke."

Producer: Leanne Buckle.

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Artist: Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Sir Simon Rattle
Mahler – Symphony No.5, EMI
Sandy Denny Who knows where the time goes?
Composer: Sandy Denny
The Best of Sandy Denny, Island Records
Ludwig van Beethoven Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 – final movement
Artist: The London Classical Players conducted by Roger Norrington
Beethoven: Symphony No.7, EMI
Johann Sebastian Bach Concerto in E Major for Violin
Artist: Andrew Manze with the Academy of Ancient Music
Concertos for Violins, Harmonia Mundi
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Composer: Stephen Sondheim
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Jean Sibelius Sibelius Violin Concerto in D Minor - Third Movement
Artist: Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas
Sibelius: Violin Concerto/Salerno Sonneberg, EMI
Kathleen Ferrier The Keel Row
Composer: Traditional
Blow the Wind Southerly, Decca
Johann Sebastian Bach Bach – Prelude to Cello Suite No.1 in G
Artist: Jacqueline Du Pre
Bach: Britten;Falla; Du Pre, EMI

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