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This Week's Guest:
Paul Abbott
11 February 2007
Repeated
16 February 2007 |
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Paul's Choice |
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Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the screen writer Paul Abbott.
He has written some of the most controversial and successful television programmes of the past decade. Shameless, Clocking Off and State of Play all flowed from his pen and have won him bags of awards.
But he was driven to write as a response to the chaotic and traumatic childhood he’d suffered. One of eight children, both parents had left the family home by the time he was eleven, leaving his older sister to bring them up. They had a near feral existence, and lived, says Paul, like rats. At fifteen he attempted suicide and ended up in a psychiatric ward. After that, without wanting to or really being aware it was happening, he wrote as a way of letting out the rage he felt inside him.
He quickly was able to turn this writing into short stories, radio plays and film scripts and to sell them. Now he is credited with making television the 'new National Theatre'. But it's not his greatest achievement - he is proudest of his successful marriage to Saskia, his wife of eighteen years, and of their two children. |
1.Good Vibrations
Performer The Beach Boys
Composer B Wilson-M Love
CD TitleThe Beach Boys...
Track 6
Label Capitol
Rec No:CDP7936962
2.Ode to Billie Joe
Performer Bobbie Gentry
Composer Gentry
CD Title Country Stars: Original artists
Track 19
Label EMI
Rec No:Cc208
3.Sweet Soul Music
Performer Arthur Conley
Composer Conley/Cooke/Redong
CD Title Atlantic Gold -75 Soul Classics
Track Cd2 trk 22
Label Warner
Rec No:WSMCD 191
4.Imagine
Performer John Lennon
Composer John Lennon
CD Title Now 45
Track Cd2 trk 23
Label NOW
Rec No:243 5 25779 27
5.Children of the Revolution
Performer T Rex
Composer Marc Bolan
CD Title History of T Rex: The Singles Collection 1968-1977
Track 1
Label Marc on Wax
Rec No;MARCD 510
6.Town Called Malice
Performer The Jam
Composer Paul Weller
CD Title Compact Snap
Track 18
Label Polydor
Rec No:8217122
7.Video Lullaby
Our castaway's son Tom Abbott with his band Kid4077
PRIVATE TAPE – NOT COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE
8.The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
Performer Roberta Flack
Composer Ewan MacColl
CD Title The Best of Roberta Flack
Track 7
Label Atlantic
Rec No:75678158
Record: Town Called Malice
Book: Complete works of Arthur Miller
Luxury: Writing pad and pencils
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