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This Week's Guest:
Alan Johnson
7 October 2007
Repeated
12 October 2007 |
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Alan's Choice |
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Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the Secretary of State for Health, Alan Johnson.
He has the task of managing one of the most challenging briefs of government - and the stakes are raised further because, when there is an election, the Prime Minister has made it clear that the main battleground will be health.
He says that unlike many politicians, he is not a keen strategist who has spent his life plotting his career, instead he has simply 'drifted along', taking whatever challenges fate offered. He has drifted on quite an incredible journey - raised among the deprivation and squalor of London in the 1950s, he was orphaned when he was twelve and brought up by his sister. He left school without an O-level but with ambitions to join the music industry. Instead, after a spell stacking supermarket shelves, he became a postman and by the time he was twenty he was married with three children. He rose through the trade union movement where his astute negotiating skills and political acumen brought him to Tony Blair's attention.
According to those who know him best, however, his political ambitions are limited - his children say he would still rather be the lead singer in a band than Prime Minister. |
1. And Your Bird Can sing.
Performer The Beatles
Composer Lennon/McCartney
CD Title Revolver
Track 9
Label PARLOPHONE
Rec No CDP7464412
2. You Little Fool
Performer Elvis Costello & the Attractions
Composer Elvis Costello
CD Title Imperial Bedroom
Track 14
Label IMP FIEND
Rec No CD36
3. Friday On My Mind
Performer Easy Beats
Composer Vanda/Young
CD Title Friday On My Mind:24 60’s Classics
Track Cd2 trk 6
Label OLD GOLD
Rec No OG3208
4. Drive in Saturday
Performer David Bowie
Composer David Bowie
CD Title Aladdin Sane
Track 3
Label EMI
Rec No CDP7947682
5.A Man Needs a Maid
Performer Neil Young and the London Symphony Orchestra
Composer Neil Young
CD Title Harvest
Track 3
Label REPRISE
Rec No 7599272392
6.Adagietto from Symphony No 5 in C Sharp Minor
Performer The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Frank Shipway
Composer Mahler
CD Title Mahler
Track 4
Label CENTURION
Rec No 04494
7 Cityscape Skybaby
Performer Super Furry Animals
Composer Super Furry Animals
CD Title Phantom Power
Track 10
Label EPIC
Rec No 5123752
8.Beneath The Sun
Performer Halima
Composer Frava/Daunt/Johnson
CD Title Beneath the Sun
Track 5
Label CHAMPION
Rec No CHAMP CD1035
Record: And your Bird Can Sing
Book: The Complete Pepy’s diaries
Luxury: A digital radio
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