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This Week's Guest:
Michael Morpurgo
Sunday 11 April
Repeated
Friday 16 April | | |  |
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Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the widely respected children’s author and the current Children’s Laureate Michael Morpurgo. He styles himself as a ‘story-teller/writer’ and the themes he explores are the relationships between young and old , children and animals and children’s experiences of loneliness and self-reliance.
He was initially planning on a career in the military and trained at Sandhurst –but a change of direction led him to study English at university and become a teacher and then, when he was aware his class were bored with a book he was reading to them, started telling them his own stories.
Together with his wife, Clare, he set up the charity “Farms for City Children” in Devon to give inner-city children the opportunity to experience life on a farm, working with animals and being close to nature.The charity now has three farms and they have been visited by more than 30,000 children.
He is the third Children's Laureate and says he is devoted to giving children a love of books and reading. His own works include War Horse, Kensuke’s Kingdom, Why the Wales Came and, most recently, Private Peaceful.
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1. Part of the 5th movement of the Shepherd's Song
Performer Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by
Erich Leinsdorf
Composer Beethoven
Publisher BMG music
CD Title Beethoven: Symphony No.6. Pastoral
Track 5
Label RCA
Rec No: VD 87996
2. Exsultate, jubilate
Performer Margaret Marshall & the Radio Symphony
Orchestra of Stuttgart cond. Sir Neville Marriner
Composer Mozart
Publisher Philips classics
CD Title David Penitente:Exsultate, jubiliate
Track 11
Label Philips
Rec No: 420 952-2
3. Words of Love
Performer Buddy Holly
Composer Buddy Holly
Publisher MCA
CD Title Buddy Holly & the Crickets.20 Golden Greats
Track 3
Label MCA
Rec No: DMCTV 1
4. 2nd movement of the Clarinet Concerto in A Major
Performer Andrew Marriner with London Mozart Players
conducted by Jane Glover
Composer Mozart
Publisher EMI records
CD Title Clarinet Concerto
Track 2
Label Classics for Pleasure
Rec No: CD-CFP 4484
5. Here comes the sun
Performer Beatles
Composer George Harrison
Publisher EMI records
CD Title The Best of George Harrison
Track 3
Label Parlophone
Rec No: CDP 746682-2
6. The Burning Mill at Messines
Performer Coope, Boyes & Simpson
Composer Pipe Major John Spoore
CD Title We're here because we're here:
Concert Party Passendale
Track 23
Label No Masters Co-operative
Rec No: NMCD 8
7. Spem in alium
Performer Tallis Scholars directed by Peter Philips
Composer Thomas Tallis
Publisher Gimell
CD Title Thomas Tallis: Spem in Alium
Track 1
Label Gimell
Rec No: CDGIM 006
8. Dancing at Lughnasa
Performer Music by Bill Whelan
Composer Bill Whelan
Publisher Sony music
CD Title Dancing at Lughnasa- soundtrack of the film
Track 15
Label Sony Classical
Rec No: SK 60585
Record: Spem in Alium
Book The Rattlebag 1982
(edited by Ted Hughes with S. Heaney)
Luxury: Waterslide
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