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This Week's Guest:
Kristin Scott Thomas
Sunday 30 March
Repeated
Friday 4 April | | |  |
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Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the actress Kristin Scott Thomas.
She was born in Redruth, Cornwall in 1960. Her father, a Naval pilot was killed in a crash when she was five. Her mother married another pilot six years later, but he was also killed under similar circumstances. Kristin moved around the country with her parents and four siblings until she went to Cheltenham Ladies College at the age of eight, where she was ‘always bottom of the class’.
On leaving school she didn’t go to drama school, but took up a teaching course, instead. When she tried to move over to the acting course she was told the only way she’d get to play Lady Macbeth was if she joined an amateur dramatic society. Stung, she moved to Paris where she was encouraged by the family she was working for to enroll at a Parisian drama school, which she did.
She has worked almost constantly since, in France, England and America, on stage, television and film. Her first starring film role was opposite Prince in his film Under the Cherry Moon and others soon followed. Among her most famous roles are Lady Brenda in A Handful of Dust, Fiona in Four Weddings and a Funeral, and Katherine Clifton in The English Patient.
She has lived in Paris ever since moving there at the age of 19 and is married to a French obstetrician, Francois Olivennes. The couple have three children aged 14, 10 and 2.
Kristin Scott Thomas is in London to appear in Chekov’s Three Sisters at the Playhouse in the West End. This is her first British stage appearance.
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1. 'So What'
Performer Miles Davis
Composer Miles Davis
Publisher Sony Music
CD Title Kind of Blue
Track 1
Label Columbia
Rec No CK 64935
2. 'Train in Vain'
Performer The Clash
Composer Strummer/Jones
Publisher Riva Music
CD Title London Calling
Track 19
Label Columbia
Rec No 460114 2
3. 'Morgen, Op. 27. No 4
Performer Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Composer Richard Strauss
Publisher EMI Records
CD Title Four Last Songs
Track 13
Label EMI
Rec No CDC 747276 2
4. 'Gloria'
Performer Sung by the Stuttgart Chamber Choir & played by Tafelmusik of Canada and conducted by Frieder Bernius.
Composer Zelenka
Publisher BMG Music
CD Title Missa Dei Filii & Litaniae Lauretanae
Track 4
Label Deutsche Harmonia Mundi
Rec No RD 77922
5. 'Girls and Boys'
Performer Prince
Composer Prince
Publisher Warner
CD Title Parade (Under the Cherry Moon)
Track 5
Label Paisley Park
Rec No 925395-2
6. 'Cwm Rhondda (Guide Me O Thou Great Jehovah)
Performer Royal Welch Fuseiliers
Composer Trad. Arranged Brush
Publisher Bandleader Music
CD Title To the Beat of a Drum
Track 16
Label BANDLEADER
Rec No BNA 5026
7. 'Spencer the Rover'
Performer John Martyn
Composer Trad. Arranged Martyn
Publisher Island Music
CD Title Sunday's Child
Track 6
Label ISLAND
Rec No IMCD 163
8. 'The Adagio from Brahm's Trio Number 1 in B Major for Piano, violin and cello
Performer Andre Previn, Viktoria Mullova and Heinrich Schiff
Composer Brahms
Publisher Philips Classics
CD Title Piano Trios by Brahms and Beethoven
Track 3
Label PHILIPS
Rec No 442 123-2
Record: Morgen Op.27 No. 4
Book: 'Sense and Sensibility' Jane Austen
Luxury: a pair of mules by Christian Louboutin
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