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This Week's Guest:
Colin Firth
4 December 2005
Repeated
9 December 2005 |
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Colin's Choice |
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Sue Lawley’s castaway this week is the actor Colin Firth.
He created an iconic moment in British television history when, as Jane Austen’s hero Mr Darcy, he emerged wet-shirted from his stately lake. To his surprise, he became a sex symbol, was dubbed the 'male Ursula Andress' and was voted Britain's Most Popular Actor in a BBC poll. He went on to send up the role on the big screen - as the ironically-named Mark Darcy, the brooding boyfriend of Bridget Jones.
He always knew he wanted to act – from the moment when, as a five year old boy, he took on the role of Jack Frost at a school panto. He studied at the Drama Centre in Chalk Farm - where one of his teachers, Christopher Fettes, said he was by nature a poet and compared his acting to that of Paul Schofield.
Married to an Italian woman and with two young sons, he now divides his time between life in London and in Italy.
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1. We People Who are Darker Than Blue
Performer Curtis Mayfield
Composer Curtis Mayfield
Publisher Camad music
CD Title Curtis:Curtis Mayfield
Track 4
Label MOVIEPLAY
Rec No: MPF74026
2. Odoo
Performer Fela Kuti
Composer Fela Anikulapo Kuti
Publisher Universal Music
CD Title Best of the Black President:Fela Kuti
Track Cd2 trk 6
Label Universal
Rec No: 5431972
3. Heart Attack and Vine
Performer Tom Waits
Composer Tom Waits
Publisher Fifth floor music
CD Title Tom Waits:Used Songs 1973-1980
Track 1
Label Elektra
Rec No: 8122783512
4. Opening of the Kyrie from Mozart's Mass in C Minor
Performer Monteverdi Choir with English Baroque soloists conducted by John Eliot Gardiner
Composer Mozart
Publisher Philips Classics
CD Title Mass in C Minor
Track 1
Label Philips
Rec No: 4202102
5. Lost Cause
Performer Beck
Composer Beck
Publisher Geffen records
CD Title Sea Change
Track 5
Label Geffen
Rec No: 4933932
6. The Stealer
Performer Free
Composer Fraser/Rodgers/Kossoff
Publisher A & M records
CD Title Free: Molten Gold: The Anthology
Track Cd1 trk 13
Label Island
Rec No: CRNCD2
7. Willin'
Performer Little Feat
Composer Lowell George
Publisher Warner Bros
CD Title Sailin' Shoes
Track 5
Label Warner
Rec No: 7599272582
8. Part of the 4th movement of Mahler's Symphony No.3 in D Minor
Performer Maureen Forrester with the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra conducted by Zubin Mehta
Composer Mahler
Publisher Decca
CD Title Symphonies No 1 & 3
Track 4
Label Decca
Rec No: 4430302
Record: Mozart's Mass in C Minor
Book: Stories of Woody Allen
Luxury: My guitar
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