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This Week's Guest:
Frankie Dettori
15 January 2006
Repeated
20 January 2006 |
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Frankie's Choice |
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Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the jockey Frankie Dettori.
Over the past two decades he's won more than 2,000 races including most of the classics at home and abroad and has been Champion Jockey three times. The son of a famous Italian jockey, he was brought up in Italy but sent by his father to train at Newmarket when he was 14 years old - 18 months later he was winning races. In 1996 he won seven races out of seven in a single day at Ascot - a feat that has not been achieved before or since.
But in 2000 he thought his luck had run out when he and fellow jockey Ray Cochrane left Newmarket in a light aircraft - only for it to plunge to the ground moments after take-off. He thought he was about to die and on coming round in the wreckage was not sure whether he was alive or dead. The event left him undecided as to what to do next. He was a hugely popular team captain on BBC TV's A Question of Sport for two years, but a chance remark from one of the contestants who thought he had retired made him realise he had to focus on being a jockey. He returned to the sport with a renewed vigour and became Champion jockey once again.
Now a father of five, Frankie plans to retire at forty-five and hopes that by then he will have won the Epsom Derby - the only major title that has so far eluded him. |
1. Life is a Rollercoaster
Performer Ronan Keating
Composer Gregg Alexander
Publisher Future Furniture Music
CD Title Ronan Keating: 10 years of Hits
Track 2
Label Polydor
Rec No: 9868455 [1]
2. Back in Black
Performer AC/DC
Composer Young, Young and Johnson
Publisher J Albert Ltd/Marks Music, BMI
CD Title Back in Black
Track 6
Label Atlantic
Rec No: K250735 [1]
3. Into the Groove
Performer Madonna
Composer Madonna/Steve Bray
Publisher Warner Bros. Music Ltd
CD Title Now that's what I call Clean, Vol 5
Track 5
Label BBC
Rec No: CDGRAM5 [1]
4. Three Little Birds
Performer Bob Marley & The Wailers
Composer Bob Marley
Publisher Island Records Ltd
CD Title Bob Marley & The Wailers: Legend
Track 4
Label Tuff Gong
Rec No: BMWCD1 [1]
5. Amazing Grace
Performer Royal Scots Dragoon Guards
Composer Newton Arr. Fairburn
Publisher Harmony Music Ltd
CD Title Best Scottish Album in the World…Ever!
Track CD1 track 19
Label Virgin
Rec No: VTDCD137 [2]
6. Fairground
Performer Simply Red
Composer Mick Hucknall
Publisher EMI Music Publishing Ltd
CD Title Life
Track 1
Label East West
Rec No: 0630120692
7. Feel
Performer Robbie Williams
Composer Robbie Williams/G Chambers
Publisher BMG Music Publishing/EMI Music Publishing
CD Title Feel
Track 1
Label Chrysalis
Rec No: CDHS5150 [1]
8. Insomnia
Performer Faithless
Composer Rollo, Sister Bliss and Mazi Jazz
Publisher Cheeky records
CD Title Insomnia
Track 2
Label CHEK
Rec No: CD010
Record: Amazing Grace
Book: The History of the Derby
Luxury: Life time supply of Pinot Grigio.
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