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This Week's Guest:
Jung Chang
16 November 2007
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Jung's Choice |
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Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the author Jung Chang.
Jung was born in the years after Mao came to power in China and as a child she took part in the Great Leap Forwards by collecting saucepans and nails and trying to melt them down for steel. She was a teenager during the Cultural Revolution and witnessed her parents being denounced and sent to labour camps.
After Mao's death she came to Britain as a student. At the time, she says, she didn’t want to think about the past - it used to give her nightmares and so she would pretend she was from Korea. But ten years after her arrival in Britain, her mother came to visit. She told Jung the stories of her and her grandmother's lives and Jung decided their intimate, family history deserved to have a wider audience. Her book, Wild Swans, has sold more than 12 million copies and won a host of awards.
Investigating her own life and those of her mother and grandmother not only brought the suffering of a nation into sharp focus it was also a liberating experience - once the book was finished, she says, the nightmares stopped. |
1. The Kyrie X111
Performer Les Moines de l’abbaye de Notre Dame of Ganagobie Composer Trad
CD Title Gregorian chants
Track 2
Label MUSIC CLUB
Rec No MCCD 130
2. But Thou Didst Not leave His Soul in Hell
Performer Stuart Burrows with the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Karl Richter
Composer Handel
CD Title Handel Messiah
Track Cd2 trk 10
Label DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON
Rec No 4197972
3. The Dream of the Red Chamber
Performer Xu & Wang Wenjuan
CD Title Shanghai opera
4. Nocturne in C Sharp Minor
Performer Fou Ts’Ong
Composer Chopin
CD Title Nocturnes Volume 1: Fou Ts’Ong
Track LP side 1 trk 2
Label CBS
Rec No 61827
5. The Boatman of the Yellow River
Performer Wang Xiangrong
Composer Trad
CD Title North Shaanxi Folk Songs
Track 1
Label CRC
Rec No SZCD-04/113
6. One for the Gov’nor
Performer Ben Webster
Composer Webster
CD Title For the Gov’nor
Track 3
Label AFFINITY
Rec No CDCHANLY 15
7. The Kyrie from Mozart’s Missa Brevis
Performer The Regensburg Cathedral Choir with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Rafael Kubelik
Composer Mozart
CD Title Coronation Mass: Mozart
Track 6
Label DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON
Rec No 4190602
8. Lady Sings the Blues
Performer Billie Holiday
Composer Holiday/Nichols
CD Title Jazz En Verve. Vol 1
Track 8
Label VERVE
Rec No 8337792
Record: Handel’s Messiah
Book: First Love by Turgenev
Luxury: Snorkelling gear |
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