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Desert Island Discs is one of Radio 4's most popular and enduring programmes. Created by Roy Plomley in 1942, the format is simple: each week a guest is invited by Sue Lawley to choose the eight records they would take with them to a desert island.
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"Lawley's consensual, almost sensual probing, producing an ambiguous bond like that between hostage and hostage-taker, is ... a masterpiece of technique."
The Sunday Times 17 March 1996
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Sinead Cusack
Sinead Cusack was born in Ireland into a acting dynasty. Her first ambition, whilst at convent school, was to be a saint. But her behaviour didn't match her early aspiration: as a teenager she was nearly expelled from school for dramatising the Profumo affair for the headmistress's feast day.
Her first professional part was at the age of eleven when her father, the actor Cyril Cusack, cast her in an adaptation of Kafka's The Trial at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin. She played a deaf mute - she says perhaps he did it to keep her quiet, because he wasn't keen for her to pursue acting and said she would never be a classical actress.
Sinead's first roles were at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, whilst she was still at university. She came to London, where she took over from a pregnant Judi Dench in London Assurance in 1975. She joined the Royal Shakespeare Company which, she says, taught her all she knows.
For Our Lady of Sligo (1998), in which Sinead played the lead role of Mai O Hara and showed in Ireland, on Broadway and at the National, she received the 1998 Evening Standard Award for Best Actress and 1998 Critics Drama Award for Best Actress. She was also nominated for Best Actress/Drama Desk Award and for Best Actress for Olivier Award.
1. Fine and Mellow
Performer: Billie Holiday
Composer: Billie Holiday
Publisher: Sony Music
CD Title: The Legacy 1933-1958
Track: 20
Label: COLUMBIA
Rec No: CK 47727
2. Oro se do Bheatha Bhaile
Performer: Sinead O'Connor
Composer: (trad) Arranged O'Conor/Lunny/Branch/A Maxwell/Ogilive
Publisher: Warner Chappell
CD Title: Sean Nos Nua
Track: 5
Label: RANDOM
Rec No: RAMCD 001
3. Syrinx
Performer: William Bennett
Composer: Claude Debussy
Publisher: Cala Records
CD Title: Chamber Music for Woodwind
Track: 2
Label: CALA
Rec No: CACD 1017/A & B
4. Sonata for Cello and Piano in A Major
Performer: Mischa Maisky, violin and Martha Argerich, piano
Composer: Cesar Franck
Publisher: EMI Records
CD Title: Franck/Debussy: Cello Sonatas
Track: 1
Label: EMI
Rec No: CDM 763577 2
5. You can't always get what you want
Performer: Rolling Stones
Composer: Jagger, Richard
Publisher: London Records
CD Title: Hot Rocks 2
Track: 7
Label: LONDON
Rec No: 820 142-2
6. Miss Otis Regrets
Performer: Bryan Ferry
Composer: Cole Porter
Publisher: Warner Chappell
CD Title: As Time Goes By
Track: 4
Label: VIRGIN
Rec No: DGVIR 89
7. Glory Box
Performer: Portishead
Composer: G Barrow/G Gibbons
Publisher: Go Beat Ltd
CD Title: Unwind/Various artists
Track: cd2 trk 1
Label: UNIVERSAL MUSIC
Rec No: 585 363 2
8. Pie Jesu
Performer: Victoria de los Angeles
Composer: Fauré
Publisher: EMI records
CD Title: Fauré's Requiem
Track: 4
Label: EMI
Rec No: CDC 747836 2
If Sinead could only take one of the eight records it would be No 8, Pie Jesu.
Her book, in addition to the Bible and the complete works of Shakespeare, would be The Plays of Chekhov.
His luxury would be a big hat with a lot of muslin.
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