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This Week's Guest:
Beryl Bainbridge
3 February 2008
Repeated
8 February 2008 |
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Beryl's Choice |
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Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the writer Dame Beryl Bainbridge.
She grew up in Liverpool - in a home filled with acrimony and argument - and started writing when she was still a child. Her only ambition, she says, was to get married and have a 'proper' family, but when her first two children were still young, her marriage broke down and she turned to writing once again. She believes she finds inspiration from the trouble and friction of everyday life and that if her marriage hadn't failed, she would have been too happy to write another word.
Now she is one of our most respected authors. She has written seventeen novels and countless articles, screenplays and television plays. She's won armfuls of awards too - but, despite being shortlisted five times, she's never won the Booker prize. She doesn't mind not winning, she says, but she would like to be the writer who has had the most nominations. |
1. Silver Threads Among the Gold
Performer Connie Boswell
Composer Hart Pease Danks/Eben E Rexford
CD Title Memory Lane/Silver Threads Among…
Track 2
Label BRUNSWICK
Rec No 02828
2. Eleanor Rigby
Performer The Beatles
Composer Lennon/McCartney
CD Title Yellow Submarine/Eleanor Rigby
Track 2
Label PARLOPHONE
Rec No CD3R5493
3. Can I Forget You?
Performer Richard Tauber
Composer Hammerstein Il/ Kern
CD Title The Golden Age of Richard Tauber
Track Side 1 trk 9
Label GOLDEN AGE
Rec No GX 2504
4. Kiss Me Goodnight Sergeant Major
Performer Vera Lynn
Composer Noel/Pelosi
CD Title We’ll Meet Again:Vera Lynn
Track 4
Label TELSTAR
Rec No TCD2369
5. MacArthur Park
Performer Richard Harris
Composer Jimmy Webb
CD Title Radio Two: More Songs of the Century
Track 19
Label TELSTAR
Rec No TTVCD 3162
6. Two Little Boys
Performer Rolf Harris
Composer Morse-Madden
CD Title The Best of Rolf Harris
Track 13
Label EMI
Rec No CDG02062
7. Bat Out of Hell
Performer Meat Loaf
Composer Steinman
CD Title 18 Rock Classics Volume 3
Track 13
Label PICKWICK
Rec No PMP102
8. Space Oddity
Performer David Bowie
Composer David Bowie
CD Title Best of Bowie
Track 1
Label EMI
Rec No 5398212
Record: Can I forget You?
Book: The Case Books of John Hunter
Luxury: Pens and Paper |
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