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Desert Island Discs
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This Week's Guest:
John Fortune

Sunday 12 December
Repeated
Friday 17  December 
John's  Choice

                                         
Sue Lawley's castaway this week is John Fortune

John Fortune is one of Britain's most respected and enduring satirists. For the past twelve years he has been half of the award-winning double act, The Long Johns, with John Bird, that have brought a sharper political edge to Bremner, Bird and Fortune. As a result of the act, they have been named the Best Opposition by The Oldie Magazine and are Bafta award winners. It is a return to the forefront of political satire for John Fortune - he had joined Peter Cook in setting up The Establishment Club in the 1960s and had taken the review to America to widespread acclaim and returned to Britain to write for,among others, BBC Three and Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life.

 
1.Spem in Alium
Performer Choir of King's College, Cambridge led by Stephen Cleobury
Composer Thomas Tellis
Publisher Decca
CD Title Tallis: Spem in Alium
Track 1
Label Argo
Rec No:4251992

2.Song of the Birds
Performer Pablo Casals
Composer Trad
Publisher CBS
CD Title Song of the Birds
Track Side 1 trk 1
Label CBS
Rec No:61579

3.Ain't Misbehavin'
Performer Louis Armstrong
Composer Andy Razaf-Fats Waller-Harry Brooks
Publisher Mills Music
CD Title Louis Armstrong: Pops: The 1940's Small Band Sides
Track 8
Label Bluebird
Rec No: ND86378

4.The Frog and the Peach
Performer Peter Cook and Dudley Moore
Composer Cook and Moore
Publisher Decca
CD Title Once More with Cook
Track Side 1 trk 3
Label Decca
Rec No:LK 4785

5.It's Easy to Blame the Weather
Performer Billie Holiday
Composer Chaplain/Cahn 
CD Title A Billie Holiday Memorial
Track Side 3 trk 5
Label Fontana
Rec No: TFL 5106
 
6. Sonata in A Major, K.208
Performer Scott Ross
Composer Domenico Scarlatti
Publisher Erato
CD Title Harpsichord Sonatas K.173-229
Track Cd13 trk 6
Label Erato
Rec No:ECD 75414

7.String Sextet Number 1 in B Flat
Performer Jean Claude Pennetier, Régis Pasquier, Raphael Oleg, Bruno Pasquier, Jean Dupouy, Roland Pidoux and Etienne Péclard
Composer Brahms
Publisher Harmonia Mundi
CD Title String Sextet No 1 & Piano Trio No 3 -Les Musiciens
Track 1
Label Harmonia Mundi
Rec No: HM901073

8.Beethoven's Piano Sonata No 30 in E Major
Performer Richard Goode
Composer Beethoven
Publisher Elektra
CD Title The Late Sonatas
Track Cd2 trk 1
Label Elektra/Nonesuch
Rec No: 979 211-2 

Record: Piano Sonata No 30 in E Major

Book:   The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa (In Italian & English)
Luxury:  A rug made by the Baluch people from Afghanistan
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Desert Island Discs is one of Radio 4's most popular and enduring programmes. Created by Roy Plomley in 1942, the format is simple: each week a guest is invited by Sue Lawley to choose the eight records they would take with them to a desert island.
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