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Desert Island Discs
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This Week's Guest:
Ronnie Corbett

21 October  2007
Repeated
26 October 2007
Ronnie Corbett
Ronnie's Choice

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is an entertainer so central to British popular culture he can be identified by the outline of his glasses alone - he is Ronnie Corbett. 

For more than fifty years, from late night reviews to prime-time sit-coms, his comic talents have made us laugh and made us love him; a nattily turned out national treasure with a quick wit and a ready smile. 

His success is due, of course, to his own ability but also to two enduring and remarkable partnerships. Along with Ronnie Barker he formed one of the great TV duos of all time whilst his forty year marriage to his wife Ann saw her abandon her flourishing entertainment career to sustain him through the vicissitudes of fame and family life.

Ronnie Corbett looks back over his life and career, from his days in review at Danny La Rue's club to his last ever programme with Ronnie Barker - a moment that brought them both to tears.

1. Change Partners
Performer Fred Astaire
Composer Irving Berlin
CD Title Fred Astaire Sings…
Track 1
Label MCA
Rec No MCAD1552

2. By Cool Siloam’s Shady Rill
Performer The Glasgow Orpheus Choir
Composer Trad – arranged Roberton
CD Title The Glasgow Orpheus Choir – 20 classic recordings
Track 2
Label MOIDART MUSIC
Rec No MOICD007

3. Walk Between Raindrops
Performer Mel Tormé and the Marty Paich Dek-Tette
Composer Donald Fagen
CD Title Reunion
Track 2
Label CONCORD JAZZ
Rec No CCD4360

4. I’ll Be Seeing You
Performer Danny La Rue
Composer Kahal-Fain
CD Title I Am What I Am
Track 13
Label ELITE
Rec No PMPCD 1201

5. Music Maestro Please
Performer Ann Hart
Composer Albie Wrubel-Herb Magidson 
CD Title Music Maestro Please/Will I Never Learn
Track 2
Label PARLOPHONE
Rec No R 5445

6. Overture to Candide
Performer Original Broadway cast from 1956
Composer Leonard Bernstein
CD Title Candide
Track 1
Label SONY BROADWAY
Rec No SK48017

7. I Like the Likes of You
Performer Bobby Short
Composer E Y Harburg & Vernon Duke 
CD Title 50 By Bobby Short
Track 1
Label ATLANTIC
Rec No 7817152

8. Look at That Face
Performer Anthony Newley
Composer Leslie Bricusse & Anthony Newley
CD Title Another Trump in a Great Career
Track Side 2
Label RCA
Rec No RD 7737

Record: Music Maestro Please
Book Untold Stories by Alan Bennett
Luxury:  A Hammock
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Desert Island Discs is one of Radio 4's most popular and enduring programmes. Created by Roy Plomley in 1942, the format is simple: each week a guest is invited by Kirsty Young to choose the eight records they would take with them to a desert island.
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