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This Week's Guest:
Monty Don
9 July 2006
Repeated
14 July 2006 |
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Monty's Choice |
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Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the gardener and broadcaster, Monty Don.
Three years ago Monty Don became the nation's most high-profile gardener when he took over from Alan Titchmarsh as the lead presenter of Gardener's World. Entirely self-taught, he has been gardening since he was a child - but it was not until he was in his late thirties that he found he could make his great passion become his vocation.
His first career ended disastrously; he and his wife Sarah set up a jewellery business together and during the 1980s they prospered; they had shops and offices in Knightsbridge and counted singers and film stars among their clients. But when the slump came they lost everything - the business, their jobs and their home.
Monty suffered years of depression that left him barely able to function. It was by chance that he was offered some stints presenting gardening slots on television. He never looked back - he says there hasn't been a day since when he's not been working and he's become a successful gardening columnist, broadcaster and author. |
1. Nobody 'cept You
Performer Bob Dylan
Composer B Dylan
CD Title Bob Dylan: the Bootleg series Volumes 1-3
Track 17
Label Columbia
Rec No: 4680862
2. A Hard Day's Night
Performer The Beatles
Composer Lennon/McCartney
CD Title The Beatles/1962-1966
Track CD1 Trk 8
Label Apple
Rec No: 0777 7 97936 23
3. Adagio from Haydn's Symphony No 22 in E flat Der Philosoph
Performer City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Simon Rattle
Composer Haydn
CD Title Haydn: Symphonies Nos 22, 86 & 102.
Track 1
Label EMI
Rec No: CDC5555092
4. Opening Chorale from Bach's Matthew Passion, Kommt, Ihr Tochter, helft mir Klagen - come ye daughters, share my mourning
Performer Choir of King's College, Cambridge, led by Stephen Cleobury
Composer Bach
CD Title Bach: St Matthew Passion
Track 1
Label Vanguard
Rec No: 99068/99069/99070
5. Anthem
Performer Leonard Cohen
Composer Leonard Cohen
CD Title Leonard Cohen: More Best of…
Track 5
Label Columbia
Rec No: 4882372
6. The Man Who Would Be King
Performer The Libertines
Composer Barat/Doherty
CD Title The Libertines
Track 4
Label Rough Trade
Rec No: RTRADCD 166
7. Road
Performer Nick Drake
Composer Nick Drake
CD Title Heaven In a Wild Flower
Track 11
Label Island
Rec No: IMCD91
8. John The Revelator
Performer Son House
Composer Son House
CD Title Death Letter
Track Side 1 trk 4
Label EDSEL
Rec No: ED 167
Record: A Hard Day's Night
Book: Collected Poems of Henry Vaughan
Luxury: Hendrickje Bathing by Rembrandt
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