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This Week's Guest:
Nigella Lawson
Sunday 05 October
Repeated
Friday 10 October | | |  |
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| Nigella's Choice |  | |
This week Sue Lawley's castaway is the broadcaster, cook, mother and domestic goddess Nigella Lawson.
She came from a privileged background – her father, the former Conservative chancellor, Nigel Lawson her mother the society beauty and heir to the Lyons Corner House empire Vanessa Salmon.After graduating from Oxford she wrote a restaurant column for the Spectator. She became deputy literary editor of the Sunday Times in 1986 and it was on that paper that she met John Diamond – the couple married three years later. She credits him with uncovering her potential – suggesting she wear more flattering clothes and make-up, encouraging her food writing and investing faith and pride in her.
He came up with the title of her first book “How to Eat”. It was a huge success and was followed by a second, award winning book “How to be a Domestic Goddess” – which held out hope to would-be goddesses that even the most meagre skills could produce stunning results.
But her life has been tainted by cancer. Her mother died of liver cancer in her forties and her sister Thomasina was in her thirties when she was killed by breast cancer. When her husband had hospital tests for a cyst on his neck it was Nigella who chased up the doctors to find out the results and interrupted EastEnders to tell him that he too had been diagnosed with the disease.
John Diamond died in 2001, leaving Nigella to bring up their two children, Cosima and Bruno. She has written a further two books and her series Nigella Bites has been bought up by American television. She says "I suppose I do think that awful things can happen at any moment, so while they are not happening you may as well be pleased."
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1. 'Sugar Sugar'
Performer The Archies
Composer Barry, Kim
Publisher ATV - Kirshner Music
CD Title The Archies - the Best of..
Track 1
Label RCA
Rec No INTS 1250
2. 'Yeke Yeke'
Performer Mary Kante
Composer Mary Kante
Publisher Polygram
CD Title Yeke, Yeke
Track 3
Label Ffrreedom
Rec No TABCD 226
3. ' Daddy Cool 2001'
Performer Boney M
Composer Farian/Reyman
Publisher BMG Entertainment
CD Title Daddy Cool 2001
Track 1
Label BMG
Rec No 74321 91351-2
4. 'Dance the Night Away'
Performer The Mavericks
Composer Raul Malo
Publisher MCA Records
CD Title Dance the Night Away
Track 1
Label MCA
Rec No MCSTD 48081
5. 'Teenage Dirtbag'
Performer Wheatus
Composer Brendan Brown
Publisher EMI pub
CD Title Teenage Dirtbag
Track 1
Label Columbia
Rec No 670796 2
6. ''Blue Monday'
Performer New Order
Composer New Order
Publisher Centredate
CD Title Substance
Track Cd1 trk. 4
Label Centredate
Rec No 520 008-2
7. 'Cleaning out my Closet'
Performer Eminen
Composer M Mathers/J Bass
Publisher Unknown
CD Title The Eminen Show
Track 4
Label Interscope
Rec No 493 292-2
8. 'Hey Boy Hey Girl'
Performer Chemical Brothers
Composer Rowlands/Simons/Wigfall/Fowler.Pettiford/Evens/Bloodrock
Publisher Virgin
CD Title Hey Boy Hey Girl
Track 1
Label Virgin
Rec No CHEMSD 8
Record: Yeke, Yeke
Book: Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (in Italian)
Luxury: Liquid Temazepam '...to give me the possibility of a very
pleasant exit...'
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