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This Week's Guest:
Quentin Blake
1 October 2006
Repeated
6 October 2006 |
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Quentin's Choice |
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Kirsty Young's first castaway is one of our most popular illustrators, Quentin Blake.
His work is immediately recognisable and is full of energy, anarchy and joy. An award-winning author in his own right, he is best known for his long collaboration with the author Roald Dahl. In the same way that it is impossible to think of Alice in Wonderland without imagining Tenniel's solemn drawings, when one imagines Charlie and the Chocolate Factory or James and the Giant Peach it is invariably Quentin Blake's pictures that spring to mind.
As a child growing up in the London suburbs he was self-contained, quiet and serious. Family friends remember that he didn't say much - but that he always loved drawing. His cartoons were first published in Punch when he was 16, making him one of its youngest ever contributors, but after graduating from Cambridge and training as a teacher, he decided his future lay not in one-off sketches for magazines, but in book illustration.
He was named the first ever Children's Laureate in 1999 and in 2005 was awarded the CBE. He lives in London and continues to work towards the establishment of a museum celebrating the history and techniques of illustration. |
1. String Quartet No 2 - Intimate Letters
Performer Prazák Quartet
Composer Janácek
Publisher AMC
CD Title String Quartets Kreutzer Sonata, Intimate Letters…
Track 9
Label: Praga
Rec No PRD250108
2. Piano Concerto in G Major
Performer Zoltán Kocsis and the Budapest Festival Orchestra conducted by Iván Fischer
Composer Ravel
Publisher Philips Classics
CD Title Debussy/Ravel: The works for Piano & Orchestra…
Track 1
Label Philips
Rec No: 4467132
3. In Darkness let me dwell
Performer Alfred Deller
Composer John Dowland
Publisher EMI
CD Title Alfred Deller: HMV Recordings, 1949-1954
Track 4
Label EMI
Rec No CDH5655012
4. Dawn, one of the Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes
Performer Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Composer Benjamin Britten
Publisher Boosey & Hawkes
CD Title … Four Sea Interludes...
Track 10
Label: EMI
Rec No CDEMX2231
5. I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Performer Marvin Gaye
Composer N Whitfield/B Strong
Publisher Motown Record Company
CD Title I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Track 4
Label:TAMLA MOTOWN
Rec No WD72374
6. A Song of the Weather
Performer Flanders and Swann
Composer Flanders and Swann
Publisher EMI
CD Title At the Drop of a Hat
Track 7
Label PARLOPHONE
Rec No: CDP797452
7. Dvorák's Cello Concerto in B Minor
Performer Pablo Casals and the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Georg Szell
Composer Dvorák
Publisher Dutton Laboratories
CD Title Dvorák: Cello Concerto & Symphony No 9
Track 1
Label DUTTON LABORATORIES
Rec No: CDEA5002
8. Le Parapluie
Performer Georges Brassens
Composer Georges Brassens
CD Title La Mauvaise Reputation
Track Side 2 Trk 2
Label Philips
Rec No: 9101 045
Record: Intimate Letters
Book: Collected Works of Charles Dickens
Luxury: Arches watercolour paper
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