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This Week's Guest:
Diana Athill
Sunday 20 June
Repeated
Friday 25 June | | |  |
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Sue Lawley’s castaway this week is the writer and book editor Diana Athill.
For nearly fifty years Diana Athill was involved in every aspect of publishing, from editing and even completely rewriting books to drawing adverts, designing covers and nursing authors for the publishing house Andre Deutsch. They published some of the greatest names of the 20th century, including Norman Mailer, Jack Kerouac, VS Naipaul and Jean Rhys.
Her career has been remarkable – but it was one that she fell into after her original plans for marriage and children fell through.
Now aged 86, she is still writing and her novel Make Believe is being republished this autumn – and she still visits the Norfolk estate owned by her family where she spent so much time as a girl riding horses.
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1. The First Kiss
Performer Haken Hagegard and accompanied by Warren Jones
Composer Sibelius
Publisher BMG
CD Title Songs of Brahms, Sibelius and Sten Hammar
Track 12
Label BMG
Rec No: 09026 68097 2
2. On a tree by a river or Tit Willow
Performer Eric Roberts with the chorus and orchestra of D'Oyly Carte Opera conducted by John Pryce Jones
Composer Gilbert & Sullivan
Publisher Jay Productions
CD Title The Mikado
Track Cd2 trk 11
Label Ter Classics
Rec No: CDTER2 1178
3. Träumerei - Scenes from Childhood
Performer Daniel Barenboim
Composer Schumann
Publisher Polydor International
CD Title Schumann: Scenes from Childhood
Track 7
Label Deutsche Grammophon
Rec No: 431 167-2 GR
4. Night and Day
Performer Fred Astaire
Composer Cole Porter
Publisher Halcyon
CD Title The Incomparable Fred Astaire
Track 1
Label Haylcyon
Rec No: DHDL 124
5. Going down this road feeling bad
Performer Big Bill Broonzy
Composer Broonzy
Publisher Sequel Records
CD Title The 1955 London Sessions
Track 10
Label Sequel Records
Rec No: NEX CD119
6. Deh vieni, non tardar (Come, do not delay, dear heart)
Performer Hilde Gueden with the Vienna Philharmonic
Composer Mozart
Publisher The Decca
CD Title Le Nozze di Figaro
Track Cd3 trk 5
Label Decca
Rec No: 417 316-2
7. O Glücklich Paar
Performer Sylvia Greenberg and Siegmund Nimsgern with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Georg Solti
Composer Haydn
Publisher Decca
CD Title Haydn: The Creation
Track Cd2 trk 12
Label Decca
Rec No: 430 474-2
8. Ich atmet einen linden Duft
Performer Kathleen Ferrier
Composer Mahler
Publisher Decca
CD Title Mahler: Das Lied von Der Erde
Track 8
Label Decca
Rec No: 466 576-2
Record: Haydn's Creation
Book: Vanity Fair by William Thackeray
Luxury: Her own bed
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