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This Week's Guest:
Peter Carey
20 June 2008
Repeated
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Peter's Choice |
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Photograph by Elena Siebert
Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the author Peter Carey.
He says he grew up in his homeland “thinking that Australian history was dull and Australian literature was dull” and that he developed a strong passion to make it new and fresh. In this he has surely succeeded - he is one of only two novellists to have been awarded the Booker Prize twice.
Yet he came to writing relatively late. The son of a car salesman he started off studying science but he abandoned his university career and ended up, in his twenties, drifting into advertising. It was only then that his literary awakening began. “I announced with great confidence one day, 'I’m going to be a writer'," he says, "I’m an obsessive fool, I was determined to do it!” |
1. Round Midnight
Performer Miles Davis
Composer T Monk/B Hanighen/C Williams
CD Title Miles Davis: Cool & Collected
Track 7
Label COLUMBIA
Rec No 82876847842
2. That’s All Right (Mama)
Performer Elvis Presley
Composer Crudup
CD Title Elvis Presley Sun Collection
Track 1
Label RCA
Rec No ND8910
3. The Hallelujah Chorus from Handel’s Messiah
Performer Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford
with the Academy of Ancient Music conducted by Christopher Hogwood
Composer Handel
CD Title Handel: Messiah
Track CD2 trk 14
Label OISEAU LYRE
Rec No 4304882
4. Thunder on the Mountain
Performer Bob Dylan
Composer Dylan
CD Title Modern Times: Bob Dylan
Track 1
Label COLUMBIA
Rec No 82876876062
5. Life During Wartime
Performer Talking Heads
Composer Bryne
CD Title Life During Wartime /Talking Heads
Track Side 2 trk 1
Label SIRE
Rec No SIR 4055
6. Idiot Wind
Performer Bob Dylan
Composer Dylan
CD Title Blood on the Tracks
Track 4
Label COLUMBIA
Rec No 5123502
7. Of Cowboys, Pirates & Lawyers
Performer Tom Frampton
Composer Tom Frampton
8. Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet
Performer Gavin Bryars & an unnamed homeless man
Composer Gavin Bryars
CD Title The Sinking of the Titanic/Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet
Track 2
Label VENTURE
Rec No CDVE938
Record: Handel’s Messiah
Book: Austerlitz by W G Seabald & Anthea Bell
Luxury: A ‘magic’ pudding & a drink |
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