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This Week's Guest:
Diane Abbott
18 May 2008
Repeated
23 May 2008 |
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Diane's Choice |
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Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the MP Diane Abbott.
She was the first black woman to become a Member of Parliament and, after her election in 1987, she said she would find herself sitting on the green benches of the House of Commons wondering whether she was really entitled to be there.
It was not the first British institution she'd cracked - she had already propelled herself through Cambridge and then into the Civil Service. But she has not always sat comfortably inside these great bastions of the establishment; she says Gordon Brown booted her off an influential committee because she asked too many questions; she was a vocal opponent of the war in Iraq and she attracted a good deal of controversy when she decided to send her son to private school.
After more than 20 years in the House of Commons, she is, she says, happy for people to judge her on what she has done and what she has stood up for. |
1. Scarlet Ribbons
Performer Harry Belafonte
Composer Jack Segal-Evelyn Danzig
CD Title Harry Belafonte: All Greatest Hits Vol.1
Track 5
Label RCA
Rec No ND90366
2. Things We Said Today
Performer The Beatles
Composer Lennon/McCartney
CD Title A Hardy Day’s Night
Track 10
Label PARLOPHONE
Rec No CDP7464372
3. Ain’t Too Proud to Beg
Performer The Temptations
Composer Norman Whitfield-Eddie Holland
CD Title Temptations: Greatest Hits
Track 4
Label Motown
Rec No 5300152
4. Exodus
Composer Bob Marley
CD Title Exodus
Track 5
Label TUFF GONG
Rec No 5488982
5. Driver A
Performer Buju Banton
Composer M Myrie/S Dunbar/R Shakespear
CD Title Too Bad
Track 11
Label GARGAMEL RECORDS
Rec No GGMOO4
6. Things Can Only Get Better
Performer D:Dream
Composer P Cunnah & J Petrie
CD Title D.DREAM ON Vol 1
Track 9
Label FXU
Rec No 4509933712
7. Reflections in the Water
Performer Paul Roberts
Composer Debussy
CD Title Debussy Piano Music Volume 11
Track 13
Label HURSTWOOD FARM STUDIO
Rec No May 2001
8. Nkosi Sikelel ‘IAfrika
Performer Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Composer Traditional
CD Title Long Walk to Freedom: Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Track 9
Label HEADS UP
Rec No HUCD3109
Record: Nkosi Sikelel ‘IAfrika
Book: Volumes of architectural & historical surveys of London
Luxury: A nice bed with comfortable mattress, sheets & mosquito net.
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