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This Week's Guest:
Jeremy Clarkson
Sunday 16 November
Repeated
Friday 21 November | | |  |
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This week Sue Lawley's castaway is the motor journalist and motor-mouth Jeremy Clarkson.
He came from a comfortable background -- his mother was a teacher and his father a travelling salesman. But his parents had greater ambitions for their son and wanted send him to public school. Their determination led his mother to set up a business making Paddington Bear toys, and the proceeds funded Jeremy’s place at Repton. However, he was a far from ideal pupil and says he was “asked to leave” apparently for inappropriate behaviour including drinking, smoking and seducing girls. He left school with no A-levels and started work as a trainee reporter on the Rotherham Advertiser. But the local news diet was not enough of a challenge and, in the middle of an assignment to a vegetable and produce show, he left the paper to seek his fortune in London, as a freelance motoring writer.
He ended up presenting Top Gear for the BBC and stayed on the programme for nine years -- kick-starting it into a brash, opinionated motor show with a large and loyal fan base. He has indulged his love of speed and risk-taking through programmes including “Extreme Machines” and “Speed” he’s hosted a chat-show, “Clarkson” and, more recently, his razor sharp tongue has turned on our fellow Europeans with “Meet the Neighbours”.
But, although his public image is as a brash, opinionated and sexist boor, he claims that he’s been misrepresented – he says he’s always been a bit of a mother’s boy. While his mother describes him as a family man who has a softer side that the public never sees. Married to his agent-cum-manager Francie, the couple have three children and two homes.
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1. 'Your Song'
Performer Billy Paul
Composer Elton John/Bernie Taupin
Publisher DJM Music
CD Title Elton John Songbook
Track 11
Label Connoisseur Collection
Rec No: VSOP CD 192
2. 'Behind Blue Eyes'
Performer The Who
Composer Pete Townshend
Publisher Polydor
CD Title Who's Next
Track 8
Label Polydor
Rec No: 813 651-2
3. 'Night Moves'
Performer Bob Seger
Composer Bob Seger
Publisher Capitol Records
CD Title Bob Seger & Silver Bullet Band Greatest Hits
Track 2
Label Capitol
Rec No: CDEST 2241
4. 'Time'
Performer Pink Floyd
Composer Mason, Waters, Wright, Gilmour
Publisher EMI
CD Title Dark Side of the Moon
Track 3
Label EMI
Rec No: CDEMD 1064
5. 'Get Ready'
Performer Temptations
Composer Robinson
Publisher Motown Records
CD Title Music of the Year 1969
Track 10
Label Spectrum
Rec No: 545 059-2
6. 'Make Me Smile' (Come Up and See Me)
Performer Steve Harley and Cokney Rebel
Composer Steve Harley
Publisher EMI
CD Title Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)
Track 1
Label EMI
Rec No: CD Harley 1
7. 'Heroes'
Performer David Bowie
Composer Bowie/Bowie ENO
Publisher EMI
CD Title Heroes
Track 3
Label EMI
Rec No: CDP 797 7202
8. 'Solsbury Hill'
Performer Peter Gabriel
Composer Peter Gabriel
Publisher Ear Pieces/Hit and Run
CD Title Peter Gabriel 1
Track 2
Label Charisma
Rec No: PGCD1
Record: Time -Pink Floyd
Book: Photograph Album
Luxury: Jet ski
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