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This Week's Guest:
Tariq Ali
16 March 2008
Repeated
21 March 2008 |
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Tariq's Choice |
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Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the radical thinker, writer and broadcaster Tariq Ali.
Forty years since the streets of London were filled with demonstrators, Tariq Ali describes how he came to be involved in anti-establishment politics and how, from an early age, he felt drawn towards those people who were the underdogs of society.
He was born to privileged, atheist parents in Pakistan, he led his first street protest at 12 and his first strike at 15. He became increasingly political until, after a military coup, his parents were advised to send him out of the country for his own safety and so he came to study at Oxford.
He travelled to Vietnam at the height of the war to observe and document the suffering there and also travelled to Bolivia and Palestine. His role as an anti-establishment agitator was cemented when he led two revolutionary marches in London in 1968.
Forty years on - and after a successful career as a film-maker and writer - he says it remains important to voice dissenting views and he insists that despite his privilege and status he remains firmly outside the establishment. |
1. The opening of Faure’s Requiem
Performer The Choir of Kings College, Cambridge & the English Chamber Orchestra led by Stephen Cleobury
Composer Faure
CD Title Faure & Durufle: Requiems
Track 10
Label EMI
Rec No CDC7498802
2. Final movement of Shostakovich’s String Quartet Number 7 in F Sharp Minor
Performer Borodin String Quartet
Composer Shostakovich
CD Title Shostakovich: String Quartets 3, 7 & 8
Track 8
Label VIRGIN CLASSICS
Rec No VC7914372
3. Prometheus
Performer Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau accompanied by Gerald Moore
Composer Schubert
CD Title Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau/Gerald Moore.
Track 7
Label ORFEO
Rec No C140101
4. Blues for Alice
Performer Charlie Parker
Composer Charlie Parker
CD Title Bird: The original recordings of Charlie Parker
Track 5
Label VERVE
Rec No 8371762
5. Carlos and Elizabeth’s duet from Act 1 of Don Carlos
Performer Luciano Pavarotti & Daniela Dessi with the Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala conducted by Riccardo Muti
Composer Verdi
CD Title Don Carlos
Track 16
Label EMICDS
Rec No 7548672
6. The Croppy Boy
Performer Cornelius Cardew
Composer Cornelius Cardew
CD Title Cornelius Cordew: Piano Music
Track 1
Label B &L
Rec No BLCD011
7. Meda Ishq Vi Toon
Performer Pathaney Khan
CD Title Pathaney Khan The Flower of Rohi
Track 1
Label RCU
Rec No 552
8. Send the Marines
Performer Tom Lehrer
Composer Tom Lehrer
CD Title Remains of Tom Lehrer
Vol 3
Track 6
Label RHINO
Rec No RHINOR2 79831
Record: Meda Ishq Vi Toon
Book. The collected works of Proust
Luxury: A mini DVD player |
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