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This Week's Guest:
Philippe Petit
Sunday 10 April
Repeated
Friday 15 April |
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Philippe's Choice |
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Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the high wire walker Philippe Petit.
Since the age of seventeen Petit had been, in his own words, a 'wandering troubador', making a living by doing magic in the salons of Paris. Notre Dame became the site of Petit's first illegal wirewalk, on 6th June 1971.
On 7th August 1974 Philippe Petit committed ‘the artistic crime of the century’ when he put a rope between the towers of the World Trade Centre in New York and spent nearly an hour walking back and forth across it, pausing to kneel and lie down on the wire. He brought much of Manhattan, a quarter of a mile below him, to a standstill, and succeeded in pushing Richard Nixon’s resignation off the front pages of the newspapers the following day.
Since walking between the twin towers Petit has done wire-walks all over the world including Tokyo and Jerusalem. He has, uniquely, devised plays to be performed on the high wire and has also become artist in residence at the cathedral of St John the Divine in New York, the largest Gothic cathedral in the world.
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1. Gabriel's Oboe
Performer Yo-Yo Ma, Roma infonietta Orchestra
Composer Ennio Morricone
Publisher Sony BMG
CD Title Yo-Yo Ma plays Ennio Morricone
Track 1
Label Sony Classical
Rec No: SK 93456
2. 1st Movement of Sonatine for Violin and Piano
Performer Leon Duo
Composer Dvorak
Publisher Cassiopee
CD Title Dvorak 4 pieces Romantique. Romance , Sonatine pour Violin et Piano Leon
Track 1
Label Cassiopee
Rec No: 969 252
3. Gymnopedie No 1
Performer Evelyne Crochet
Composer Eric Satie
Publisher Philips
CD Title Evelyne Crochet plays Eric Satie
Track 3
Label Philips
Rec No :PHS 900-179
4. Sunset and the Mocking Bird
Performer Duke Ellington
Composer Ellington/Strayhorn
Publisher Tempo Music Inc
CD Title The Ellington Suites
Track 1
Label Pablo
Rec No :OJCCD 446-2
5. Ne me Quitte Pas
Performer Jacques Brel
Composer J Brel
Publisher Barclay
CD Title Ne me Quitte Pas
Track 1
Label Barclay
Rec No: 980817-6
6. B'Amud Onon Psalm 99 v. 7-9
Performer Estrongo Nachama, Harry Foss (Organ)
Composer Boas Bischofswerder
Publisher
CD Title Chasanut - Gesange aus der Synagoge
Track 7
Label P+O-Pallas
Rec No: CD 66.21184
7. Palabras para Julia
Performer Paco Ibanez Francois Rabbath on Cello
Composer Jose Agustin Goytisolo
Publisher A Flor de tiempo
CD Title Paco Ibanez
Track 8
Label Universal , A flor de Tiempo
Rec No: 018979-2
8. Ma Mere Baidja
Performer Francois Rabbath (Cello) Michel Delaport (Perc) Georges Avanitas (Piano/organ)
Composer Francois Rabbath
Publisher EMEN
CD Title Francois Rabbath - 70
Track 1
Label Emen
Rec No: 290142
Record: Dvorak Sonatine for Violin and Piano
Book: Ashley's Book of Knots concealing a hidden book of short stories
Luxury: His Mysterious Object (An object found by his father that as yet no- one can identify).
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