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This Week's Guest:
Michael Howard
Sunday 4 July
Repeated
Friday 9 July | | |  |
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Sue Lawley’s castaway this week is the leader of the Conservative Party, Michael Howard.
He was raised in an orthodox Jewish family in Llanelli, South Wales, where his parents ran ladies’ fashion shops. In the Labour supporting, rugby playing valleys, the teenage Michael preferred football and his leanings were towards the Conservatives. He propelled himself to Peterhouse College, Cambridge – and was part of the Cambridge Mafia that included Kenneth Clarke, Leon Brittan, Norman Lamont and Norman Fowler. But while his contemporaries all entered parliament within a few years of graduating, Michael Howard’s journey to Westminster took considerably longer. He first stood as a Conservative candidate in 1966 when he was just 24 years old. He tried again, unsuccessfully, in 1970, but it was not until 1983 – after putting his name forward for dozens of safe seats – that he was chosen as the party’s candidate for Folkestone and Hythe and secured a seat in the House of Commons. He says that by the time he was successful, he wondered whether he was too old to make his mark there. But he rose quickly through the ministerial ranks and had secured a place in cabinet before he was 50. He was John Major’s Home Secretary for four years – a controversial period that culminated in his former deputy, Ann Widdecombe, saying there was ‘something of the night’ in his personality. When he stood to be leader of the party in 1997 he came fifth out of five candidates. But eight months ago he was elected, unopposed, the new leader of the party. He told Sue Lawley: 'I was astonished. It was not something I ever thought would happen and if we'd been sitting here a year ago and you'd told me that I'd be sitting here today as leader of the Conservative Party, I have said that you were prone to fantasies'
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1. All You Need is Love
Performer Beatles
Composer Lennon/McCartney
Publisher EMI
CD Title The Beatles/1967-1970
Track 7
Label Apple
Rec No: CDPCSP 718
2. Cwm Rhondda
Performer Morriston Orpheus Choir
Composer J Hughes-W Williams-P Williams
Publisher Grasmere music
CD Title Always on My Mind
Track 14
Label Grasmere
Rec No: GRCD 59
3. Long Tall Sally
Performer Little Richard
Composer Johnson, Penniman, Blackwell
Publisher Speciality Records
CD Title Little Richard - 22 Classic Cuts
Track 1
Label ACE
Rec No: CDCH 195
4. Blue Monk
Performer Thelonious Monk Quartet
Composer Thelonious Monk
Publisher Fantasy
CD Title Thelonious in Action
Track 5
Label Riverside
Rec No: OJCCD 103-2
5. You'll Never Walk Alone
Performer Gerry & the Pacemakers
Composer Rogers & Hammerstein
Publisher See for Miles
CD Title Gerry & the Pacemakers:The E.P. collection
Track 6
Label See for Miles
Rec No: SEECD 95
6. 2nd movement of Mozart's Piano Concerto No 21 in C
Performer Alfred Brendel with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields conducted by Sir Neville Marriner
Composer Mozart
Publisher Philips
CD Title Mozart: Piano Concertos K.450 & K.467
Track 6
Label Philips
Rec No: 400 018-2
7. A White Shade of Pale
Performer Procol Harum
Composer Brooker/Reid
Publisher Onward Music
CD Title Procol Harum/30th anniversary anthology
Track 1
Label Westside
Rec No: WESX 301
8. (Everything I do) I Do It for You
Performer Bryan Adams
Composer Bryan Adams
Publisher A & M records
CD Title (Everything I do) I Do It for You
Track 1
Label A & M
Rec No: AMCD 789
Record: (Everything I do) I do it forYou
Book: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A Caro
Luxury: A hot shower and some soap
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