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This Week's Guest:
Armando Iannucci
Sunday 4 June
Repeated
Friday 9 June |
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Armando's Choice |
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Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the satirist Armando Iannucci.
He has lampooned news journalism with his creations On the Hour and The Day Today and plumbed the shallows of the chat show circuit through the vain and insecure Alan Partridge. His most recent work has been more biting – his Westminster satire The Thick of It dissects the relationship between politicians, their spin-doctors and the media they want to control. Decisions are made on the hoof, in haste and in response to media pressure – there’s not a politician, civil servant or journalist who isn’t compromised in the process.
A highly academic child at a Jesuit school, in his teens he harboured ambitions to become a Catholic priest. His parents thought he might become a doctor or lawyer, but after getting first class degree from Oxford, and spending three years writing a thesis about religious language with reference to Milton, he concentrated on comedy instead. He joined the BBC and ended up producing the radio comedy programmes he had listened to as a child.
He is currently involved in developing new comedy for the BBC and is this year's Visiting Professor of Broadcast Media at Oxford University. |
1. Part of the third movement of Bach's Partita Number 3
Performer Nathan Milstein
Composer Bach
Publisher Polydor International
CD Title Bach: Sonatas and Partitas
Track 12
Label Deutsche Grammophon
Rec No: 4232942
2. Overture to Rossini's Thieving Magpie
Performer Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by David Parry
Composer Rossini
CD Title Rossini:Thieving Magpie
Track Cd1 trk 2
Label Chandos
Rec No: CHAN 30972
3. Opening of Mahler's 9th Symphony
Performer London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Klaus Tennstedt
Composer Mahler
CD Title Mahler's Symphony No 9
Track 1
Label EMI Classics
Rec No: 7243 5729512
4. Nunc Dimittis
Performer Collegiate Singers directed by Andrew Millinger and accompanied on the organ by Richard Moorhouse
Composer Herbert Howells
CD Title The Complete Morning and Evening Canticles:H Howell's vol 1
Track 14
Label Priory
Rec No: PRCD 745
5. The Moose
Performer Woody Allen
Composer Woody Allen
Publisher Roxbury Record
CD Title The Bitter End Years
Track Side 2 trk 1
Label Roxbury
Rec No: RLX 300B
6. Cloudbursting
Performer Kate Bush
Composer Kate Bush
Publisher EMI
CD Title Hounds of Love
Track 5
Label EMI
Rec No: 5252392
7. Final Movement of Sibelius's Symphony No 5 in E flat
Performer Iceland Symphony Orchestra conducted by Petri Sakari
Composer Sibelius
CD Title Sibelius:Symphonies 4 & 5
Track 7
Label Naxos
Rec No: 8554377
8. Valet will ich dir geben
Performer Katherine Fuge with the English Baroque Soloists conducted by John Eliot Gardiner
Composer Bach
CD Title Bach Cantatas:Gardiner
Track CD2 Trk 21
Label SDG
Rec No: SDG104
Record: Mahler's 9th Symphony
Book: Complete Short Stories of H G Wells
Luxury: Virtual sherry trifle.
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