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This Week's Guest:
Victoria Wood
23 December 2007
Repeated
28 December 2007 |
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Victoria's Choice |
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Kirsty Young's castaway this Christmas is Victoria Wood.
For decades she has been one of our best-loved writers and performers.
The television series she's made - including Acorn Antiques, Dinnerladies and Housewife 49 - have won her a devoted following as well as stacks of awards.
But, in a moving and open interview, she describes how, as a teenager, she felt she was a misfit - she had few friends, she struggled with her weight and at school she used to steal other people's homework. She joined a youth theatre and it was, she says, the saving of her. She found like-minded people and a sense that she had something to offer.
She is very careful about how much of her own life she puts into her work. She doesn't mind saying she cuts her pubic hair with nail-scissors, but rarely discusses her children on the stage. Now she is embarking on her next project - she says she is too anxious to talk about it, except to say it will look at the life of a middle-aged woman whose marriage has foundered. |
1. Marie
Performer Randy Newman
Composer Randy Newman
CD Title Back to California
Track 3
Label RHINO
Rec No 510115522
2. Birdland
Performer Weather Report
Composer J Zawinul
CD Title Weather Report:8.30
Track Side 3 trk 1
Label CBS
Rec No 22134
3. Soledad
Performer Gidon Kremer
Composer Astor Piazzolla
CD Title Hommage a Piazzolla
Track 7
Label Nonesuch
Rec No 7559 79407-2
4. Get a Move On
Performer Mr Scruff
Composer Carthy/Hardin/Henry
CD Title Get a Move On
Track 1
Label NINJA TUNE
Rec No ZENCDS104
5. Misery is the River of the World
Performer Tom Waits
Composer Tom Waits/Kathleen Brennan
CD Title Blood Money
Track 1
Label ANTI
Rec No 66292
6. What a Fool Believes
Performer The Doobie Brothers
Composer McDonald/Loggins
CD Title The Very Best of The Doobie Brothers
Track 17
Label WARNER
Rec No 9548328032
7. Tabula Rasa
Performer Gidon Kremer, Tatjana Grindenko & Alfred Schnittke with the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra conducted by Saulus Sondeckis
Composer Arvo Part
CD Title Tabula Rasa
Track 4
Label ECM
Rec No 8177642
8. The Shepherd’s Pipe Carol
Performer The Clare College Singers and Orchestra conducted by John Rutter
Composer Rutter
CD Title Carols from Clare
Track 1
Label EMI
CDM Rec No 7699502
Record: What a Fool Believes
Book: A big Dicken’s book
Luxury: a bumper book of Suduko with blank pages & pen |
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