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This Week's Guest:
Virginia McKenna
Sunday 26 September
Repeated
Friday 1 October |
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Virginia's Choice |
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Photo by Tommy Candler
Sue Lawley’s castaway this week is the actress and wildlife campaigner Virginia McKenna
She was born in London and after spending five years of her childhood in South Africa to escape the Blitz she returned to England . She enrolled at the Central School of Drama but left after two years when offered six months in Repertory at Dundee . Classics such as the Cruel Sea , Carve Her Name with Pride and A Town Like Alice for which she won a British Academy Award for Best Actress, have been highlights in a long and successful career.
However her most remembered and best loved roles have been in Born Free and Ring of Bright Water starring opposite her actor husband the late Bill Travers. For Born Free she won the Variety Club Best Actress Award . Making Born Free in 1964 which told the true story of George and Joy Adamson, as they returned Elsa the lioness to the wild ,profoundly affected Bill and Virginia and it was a key influence in their lives. They realised that wild animals belong in the wild and should be protected there, not imprisoned in captivity.
But it took the premature death in London Zoo of Pole Pole a young elephant who had featured in their film An Elephant Called Slowly which led to the founding of Zoo Check in 1984. The Trust was dedicated to preventing the abuse of captive wild animals and strove to protect and conserve them in the wild. Zoo Check grew to become a major force in the animal welfare movement and was renamed The Born Free Foundation in 1991.
She was awarded the OBE in the New Year's Honours List in 2004 for services to wildlife and the arts.
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1. Born Free
Performer Matt Monroe
Composer Barry/Black
Publisher EMI
CD Title 20 Golden Greats from Matt Monroe
Track 11
Label EMI
Rec No:CDP7 46241 2
2. Part of Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor for Organ and Strings
Performer Guildhall String Ensemble conducted by Robert Salter
Composer Tomaso Albinoni
Publisher BMG
CD Title The Definitive Collection: Guildhall String Ensemble
Track 14
Label RCA
Rec No:09026 61275-2
3. Over the Rainbow
Performer Judy Garland
Composer E Y Harborg/H Arlen
Publisher Capitol Records
CD Title Miss Show Business: Judy Garland
Track 10
Label Capitol
Rec No: CDP 7923442
4.The Andante from Mozart's Piano Concerto Number 21 in C Major
Performer London Mozart Players with the pianist Howard Shelley
Composer Mozart
Publisher BBC
CD Title The Very Best of Desert Island Discs
Track Cd3 Trk 6
Label BBC
Rec No: WMEF0067-2
5. The Lark Ascending
Performer Iona Brown with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields conducted by Neville Marriner
Composer Vaughan Williams
Publisher ASV
CD Title The English Connection
Track 1
Label ASV
Rec No:CD DCA 518
6. Ring of Bright Water
Performer Val Doonican
Composer Cordell
Publisher MCA Music
CD Title The Very Best of Val Doonican
Track Side 2 trk 6
Label Music for Pleasure
Rec No: MFP 415681 1
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7. Whispers
Performer Louise McKenna, Ashlin McKenna & Daniel Martin
Composer Louise McKenna
CD Title Two Wild Birds
Track 6
Available from PO Box 1778 Albany 6331
8. We are the Music Makers
Performer London Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra cond. Bryden Thomson
Composer Elgar (music) Arthur O'Shaughnessy (words)
Publisher Chandos
CD Title Sea Pictures/Music Makers
Track 7
Label Chandos
Rec No: Chan 9022
Record: The Music Makers
Book: Animal - the definitive visual Guide to the World's Wildlife
Luxury: Language tapes to learn Italian and Swahali
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