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This Week's Guest:
Andrew Davies
5 August 2007
Repeated
10 August 2007 |
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Andrew's Choice |
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Kirsty Young’s castaway this week is the writer Andrew Davies.
He is the king of television adaptation: Pride and Prejudice, Vanity Fair, Middlemarch and Tipping the Velvet are just a few of the dramas he has brought to our screens.
Until he was 50 he was an English lecturer and wrote in his spare time – it was a sort of mid-life crisis that sent his career soaring. Since then, his signature has been stripping down the classics, sexing them up and serving Austen, Eliot and Dickens to appreciative audiences.
The trick is to make sure the stories remain relevant to viewers today – and that, he says, is straightforward because the main motivators remain the same; sex, love, money and power.
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1. The final movement of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D Major
Performer Sir Yehudi Menuhin
Composer Beethoven
CD Title Beethoven:Violin Concerto Op.61
Track 3
Label EMI
CDM Rec No 7690012
2. The Kyrie from Missa Brevis
Performer The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge
Composer Benjamin Britten
CD Title Benjamin Britten: A Ceremony of Carols
Track 32
Label CONIFER
Rec No 75605512872
3. Hiawatha Rag
Performer Chris Barber Band Box
Composer Moret and O’Deo
CD Title Hiawatha Rag/Si Tu Vois Ma Mere
Track Side 1 trk 1
Label COLUMBIA
Rec No SEG 7980
4. The opening theme to On the Waterfront
Performer Leonard Bernstein & The New York Philharmonic
Composer Leonard Bernstein
CD Title Leonard Bernstein conducts West Side Story & On ...
Track Side 1 trk 1
Label COLUMBIA
Rec No ML 5651
5. Train and the River
Performer The Jimmy Giuffre Trio
Composer J Giuffre
CD Title Jazz on a Summer’s Day: original Soundtrack
Track 3
Label CHARLY
Rec No CDGR 196
6. Total Eclipse of the Heart
Performer Bonnie Tyler
Composer Steinman
CD Title 18 Rock Classics: Volume 3
Track 3
Label PICKWICK
Rec No PMP102
7. La Maison Ou J’ai Grandi
Performer Francoise Hardy with Charles Blackwell & orchestra
Composer Marnay, Celentano, Beretta, Del Prete
CD Title La Maison Ou J’Ai Grandi
Track Side 1 trk 1
Label VOGUE
Rec No VRS 7011
8. In Paradisum
Performer Victoria de Los Angeles & Elisabeth Brasseur with the Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire
Composer Fauré
CD Title Fauré: Requiem
Track 7
Label EMI CLASSICS
Rec No 7243 5 66894 2
Record: Hiawatha Rag
Book: Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
Luxury: Endless supply of Mojitos |
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