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This Week's Guest:
Jo Brand
18 March 2007
Repeated
23 March 2007 |
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Jo's Choice |
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Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the stand-up comedian Jo Brand.
From the word go she always anticipated she would be heckled about her weight and appearance. While most people would run a mile at the thought of standing in front of a rowdy, aggressive and largely drunk audience, she says that the worst that can happen is humiliation - and she adds that as a woman, she was already equipped to deal with this, because people felt free to comment disparagingly on her appearance in everyday life.
Her first career was as a psychiatric nurse - and for several years she would spend the day working in a psychiatric unit before appearing at a comedy club in the evening.Both careers demand an ability to be calm in extreme situations and to display a confidence that is often not felt.
Her extreme act meant that for many years she was labelled a man-hating feminist - but she confounded critics by getting married and having two children. |
1. Opening of Brahm’s Variations on a Theme of Haydn
Performer The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Claudio Abbado
Composer Brahms
CD Title Brahms:Symphony No 4 …
Track 1
Label Deutsche Grammophon
Rec No:4353492
2. Oh England, My Lionheart
Performer Kate Bush
Composer Kate Bush
CD Title Lionheart
Track 5
Label EMI
Rec No:CDP 7460652
3. Gloomy Sunday
Performer Paul Robeson
Composer Seress-Carter
CD Title Paul Robeson:The Golden Age of 14 Beautiful Songs
Track Side 2 trk 5
Label Golden Age
Rec No:GX 2514
4. Smash It Up
Performer The Damned
Composer Scabies/Sensible/Vanian/Gray
CD Title Sessions of the Damned
Track 15
Label Strange Fruit
Rec No:SF12CD121
5. People Like Us
Performer Talking Heads featuring John Goodman
Composer David Byrne
CD Title Wild Wild Life
Track 1
Label EMI
Rec No:5567
6. Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards
Performer Billy Bragg
Composer Billy Bragg
CD Title Must I Paint You a Picture?
Track Cd 1 trk 20
Label Cooking Vinyl
Rec No:COOKCD 266
7. Couldn’t Call It Unexpected No 4
Performer Elvis Costello
Composer Mac Manus
CD Title Extreme Honey
Track 16
Label Warner
Rec No:9362468012
8. The Wedding
Performer Abdullah Ibrahim
Composer Abdullah Ibrahim
CD Title Water From An Ancient Well
Track 16
Label TIPTOE
Rec No:TIP8888122
Record: Oh England, My Lionheart
Book: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
Luxury: A Church Organ |
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