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This Week's Guest:
John Sutherland
22 January 2006
Repeated
27 January 2006 |
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John's Choice |
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Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the writer and academic John Sutherland.
He is the recently retired Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College, London, a past Chairman of the Booker Prize panel and the author of one of the standard texts on Victorian fiction. But his route into academia was a curious one - and his life inside the ivory towers far from smooth.
His father was killed in the war and he was brought up by his extended family in a peripatetic childhood. He joined the army but, with no war to fight, left his commission and went to university instead. He worked in Scotland and America but as his reputation grew, so did his dependence on alcohol. He finally hit rock bottom while in America and stopped drinking 23 years ago.
Today he is a pre-eminent literary figure - combining erudition and historical research with a taste for the modern and the new.
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1. Flamingo
Performer Earl Bostic
Composer Grouya and Anderson
Publisher Charly records
CD Title Earl Bostic Blows a Fuse
Track LP Side 1, trk 3
Label Charly
Rec No: CRS 1091
2. The Foggy, Foggy Dew
Performer Burl Ives
Composer Trad
Publisher EMI
CD Title Burl Ives:The collection
Track 25
Label EMI
Rec No:5763232
3. Speed the Plough
Performer The Regimental Band of the Coldstream Guards
Composer Trad/arranged Holben
Publisher Chandos
CD Title The Regimental Marches of the British Army Vol.1
Track 17
Label Chandos
Rec No: Chan 6563
4. The Way You Look Tonight
Performer Dave Brubeck
Composer Kern-Fields
Publisher Fantasy
CD Title Dave Brubeck Quarter:Jazz at Oberlin
Track 4
Label Fantasy
Rec No: CDRIVM007
5. The Piano has been Drinking (Not Me)
Performer Tom Waits
Composer Tom Waits
Publisher Fifth Floor Music
CD Title Small Change
Track 5
Label Asylum
Rec No:7559-60612-2
6. Hotel California
Performer The Eagles
Composer Don Felder/Glenn Frey/Don Henley
CD Title Hotel California
Track 1
Label Asylum
Rec No: K25305
7. Tenderly
Performer Oscar Peterson
Composer Walter Gross/Lawrence Jack
Publisher Edwin H Morris and Co
CD Title Tenderly:Live at the Orpheum Theatre, Vancouver
Track 10
Label Just a Memory
Rec No: JAM 9147-2
8. Take Me Out
Performer Franz Ferdinand
Composer Kapranos/McCarthy
Publisher Domino recordings
CD Title Take Me Out
Track 1
Label Domino
Rec No: Rug172CD
Record: The Piano has been Drinking (not me)
Book: Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Luxury: I pod.
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