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This Week's Guest:
Nick Hornby
Sunday 28 September
Repeated
Friday 3 October | | |  |
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This week Sue Lawley's castaway is the internationally successful author Nick Hornby.
Originally from suburban Maidenhead, his obsession with football, as chronicled in the autobiographical Fever Pitch, began after his parents divorced and his dad struggled to find a suitable weekend pass time. The decision to visit Arsenal had lasting repercussions with Hornby becoming a fanatical supporter.
His next work, High Fidelity featured Horrnby’s other great passion - pop music. It became a bible for all men who’ve ever catalogued their record collections in alphabetical order or agonised over their own Desert Island Discs choices.
His next book About a Boy resulted in a bidding war with Robert De Niro’s film company buying the rights for £2 million. How to Be good which followed changed tack with a female narrator and is in part autobiographical reflecting the pros and cons of a virtuous life -- questions he’s had to ask following the birth of his son Danny who suffers from severe autism. He’s since set up the TreeHouse Fund, a national charity for autism which has a school in London
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1. 'Kitty's Back'
Performer Bruce Springsteen
Composer Bruce Springsteen
Publisher CBS
CD Title The Wild, the Innocent & E Street Shuffle
Track 3
Label CBS
Rec No CDCBS 32363
2. 'You Wear It Well'
Performer Rod Stewart
Composer Stewart/Quittenton
Publisher Polygram
CD Title The Best of Rod Stewart
Track 7
Label Mercury
Rec No 514 180-2
3. 'Complainte pour Ste Catherine'
Performer Kate and Anna McGarrigle
Composer Lyrics: Philippe Tatartcheff/ Music: Anna McGarrigle
Publisher Montreal Rose Music
CD Title French Record
Track 2
Label Hannibal
Rec No HNCD 1302
4. 'The Love You Save'
Performer Jackson Five
Composer The Corporation TM
Publisher Motown Records
CD Title Children of the Light
Track 1
Label Spectrum
Rec No 550 076 2
5. 'Fatou Yo'
Performer Toure Kunda
Composer Traditional
Publisher Putumayo World Music
CD Title World Playground-Musical adventure for kids
Track 1
Label PUTU
Rec No 154-2
6. 'Night Ride Home'
Performer Joni Mitchell
Composer Joni Mitchell
Publisher David Geffen Company
CD Title Night Ride Home
Track 1
Label Geffen
Rec No 924302 2
7. 'My heart is the Bums on the Street'
Performer Marah
Composer Bielanko/Bielanko
Publisher E Squared
CD Title Kids in Philly
Track 5
Label Epic
Rec No 498260 2
8. 'Going Back to Cali'
Performer LL Cool J
Composer R Rubin- J T Smith
Publisher Def Jam Music Inc.
CD Title Less Than Zero soundtrack
Track 4
Label Def Jam
Rec No 4604492
Record: Kitty's Back
Book: Barnaby Rudge - Charles Dickens
Luxury: I pod - a mp3 player.
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