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This Week's Guest:
Sir Ian McKellen
Sunday 9 February
Repeated
Friday 14 February | | |  |
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Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the actor Sir Ian McKellen
Ian grew up in Lancashire attending Wigan Grammar school and then Bolton School where he was Head Boy.
His first trip to the theatre was as a three year old when he went to see ‘Peter Pan’ at Manchester Opera House. At seven a treasured Christmas present was a fold away Victorian theatre from Pollocks Toy Theatres. Ian’s older sister Jean introduced him to Shakespeare - taking him to see ‘Twelfth Night’ at Wigan’s Little Theatre. His first Shakespeare performance was playing Malvolio from the same play at the amateur Hopefield Miniature theatre when he was 13 years old.
Ian won a scholarship to read English at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge and was soon appearing in regular productions, including appearing alongside now famous alumni such as Derek Jacobi, David Frost, Trevor Nunn and Margaret Drabble.
By the time Ian graduated in 1961 he had decided to become an actor, and got his first job at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry’s production of ‘A Man for All Seasons’. He has not been out of work since, appearing at the National Theatre and the RSC, and has also forged a successful film career, including an acclaimed ‘Richard III’ for which he also wrote the screenplay; and parts in ‘X-men’;‘God’s and Monsters’ for which his performance was Oscar nominated and most recently playing ‘Gandalf’ in ‘Lord of the Rings’.
Ian was made a Knight of the British Empire for services to the Performing Arts in the Queen’s New Year Honours of 1990.
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1. ‘The Stars and Stripes Forever’
Performer: Vladimir Horowitz
Composer: Sousa
Publisher: BMG Entertainment
CD Title: Vladimir Horowitz: The Indispensable
Track: CD2 TRK 14
Label: RCA
Rec No: 74321 63471-2
2. Part of ‘Adagio for Strings’
Performer: Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Geoffrey Simon
Composer: Samuel Barber
Publisher: The Moss Music Group
CD Title: Works by Strauss, Sibelius, Elgar, Ravel, Barber, Sibelius, Saint-Saens
Track: 6
Label: CALA
Rec No: CACD 4
3. Part of 2nd movement of Beethoven’s Late Quartet No.13 in B flat
Opus 130
Performer: Lindsay String Quartet
Composer: Beethoven
Publisher: ASV
CD Title: The Late Quartets nos. 12-16
Track: Cd2 trk. 2
Label: ASV
Rec No: CD DCA 601/604
4. ‘Rose’s Turn’
Performer: Ethel Merman
Composer: Music by Julie Styne and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Publisher: CBS
CD Title: Gypsy – original broadway cast
Track: 16
Label: COLUMBIA
Rec No: CK 32607
5. ‘Stormy Weather’
Performer: Lena Horne
Composer: Ted Koehler/Harold Arlen
Publisher: Qwest Records
CD Title: The Lady and Her Music Live on Broadway
Track: Side 4 track 6
Label: QWEST
Rec No: K 66108/B
6. ‘Mississippi Goddam’
Performer: Nina Simone
Composer: Nina Simone
Publisher: Polygram Records
CD Title: The Best of Nina Simone
Track: 2
Label: PHILIPS
Rec No: 822 846-2
7. ‘Harrison’s Clocks’
Performer: Joanna McGregor
Composer: Harrison Birtwhistle
Publisher: Sound Circus
CD Title: Harrison’s Clocks
Track: 1
Label: SOUND CIRCUS
Rec No: SC 004
8. ‘Dancing Queen’
Performer: Abba
Composer: B. Andersson/S.Andersson/B.Ulvaeus
Publisher: Universal/Union Songs
CD Title: Abba: The Definitive Collection
Track: CD 1 trk 12
Label: POLAR
Rec No: 549 975-2
Record: ‘Stormy Weather’
Book: A Dictionary of Flora and Fauna
Luxury: Grand piano
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