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This Week's Guest:
Ricky Gervais
24 June 2007
Repeated
29 June 2007 |
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Ricky's Choice |
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Kirsty Young's castaway this week is Ricky Gervais.
In just 12 episodes his show The Office changed the face of British television comedy. At its centre was the comic monster, David Brent, a middle-manager being filmed for a mock-documentary who saw the ever present cameras as his route to popularity and fame.
Ricky Gervais's performance was both excruciating and unmissable - one critic called the programme "among the most affecting and invigorating works of fiction since the turn of the century".
As he discusses with Kirsty Young, comedy was the language he grew up with - the youngest of four children, being able to come up with a gag or a smart rejoinder was the linguistic currency of his home.
That, he says, is where the 'show-off performer' was born. Now with seven Baftas, two Golden Globes and an Emmy to his name, Ricky Gervais is gratified that his work is recognised and says his aim has always been to bring art into comedy.
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1. If You See Her Say Hello
Performer Bob Dylan
Composer Bob Dylan
CD Title Blood on the Tracks
Track 8
Label COLUMBIA
Rec No 5123502
2. Lilywhite
Performer Cat Stevens
Composer Cat Stevens
CD Title Mona Bone Jakon
Track 11
Label ISLAND
Rec No: IMCD267
3. Anarchy in the UK
Performer The Sex Pistols
Composer Jones/Cook/Matlock/Rotten
CD Title Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols
Track 8
Label VIRGIN
Rec No CDV2086
4. After The Gold Rush
Performer Neil Young
Composer
CD Title Neil Young: Decade
Track 14
Label REPRISE
Rec No 7599-27233-2
5. Bones
Performer Radiohead
Composer Colin Greenwood/Jonny Greenwood/Ed O'Brien/Phil Selway/Thom Yorke
CD Title Radiohead: The Bends
Track 5
Label PARLOPHONE
Rec No CDPC57372
6. Letter to Hermione
Performer David Bowie
Composer David Bowie
CD Title Space Oddity
Track 4
Label EMI
Rec No CDP7918352
7. Galveston
Performer Jimmy Webb
Composer Jimmy Webb
CD Title Ten Easy Pieces
Track 1
Label GUARDIAN
Rec No 8528262
8. Always on My Mind
Performer Willie Nelson
Composer J Christopher/WC Thompson/M James
CD Title BBC RADIO 2 SONGS OF THE CENTURY
Track 4
Label GLOBAL TELEVISION
Rec No RADCD119
Record: Lilywhite – Cat Stevens
Book: A coffee table book of art
Luxury: Vat of Novocaine - a non-addictive pain-killer |
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