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This Week's Guest:
Michael Deeley
14 December 2008
Repeated
19 December 2008 |
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Michael's Choice |
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Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the Oscar-winning film producer Michael Deeley.
Over the past forty years he’s been involved in some of the most highly acclaimed movies we’ve seen, including Don’t Look Now, The Deer Hunter and The Italian Job.
Yet his job is one that’s barely understood. Neither the artistic visionary nor the star player the producer, he says, is the person who is the ramrod-figure who causes a film to be made - buying the rights to stories, hiring actors, finding locations and overseeing the production.
He fell into it – he’d always thought he’d be a diplomat or a lawyer – but a casual job ended up being a career of many decades standing. He says rather modestly, “I just found I had the knack”. |
1. I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That)
Performer Meat Loaf
Composer Jim Steinman
CD Title School's Out: 90's
Track Cd2 trk4
Label EMI
Rec No 3323692
2. The Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves from Nabucco
Performer Ambrosian Opera Chorus with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Riccardo Muti
Composer Verdi
CD Title Nabucco
Track CD2 trk 10
Label EMI
Rec No CDS7474888
3. Pie Jesu
Performer Jacqueline Barron & the Stephen Hill Singers
Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber
CD Title The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber
Track 4
Label FIRST NIGHT
Rec No LLOYDCD 1
4. Blue Bayou
Performer Roy Orbison
Composer R Orbison – Melson
CD Title All Time Greatest Hits of Roy Orbison
Track 19
Label MONUMENT
Rec No CDMNT67290
5. Cavatina – the theme to The Deer Hunter
Performer John Williams
Composer Stanley Myers
CD Title The Deer Hunter: original soundtrack
Track 1
Label CAPITOL Rec
No CDP7920582
6. El Salón México
Performer New York Philharmonic conducted by Leonard Bernstein
Composer Aaron Copland
CD Title Copland: El Salón México
Track 1
Label DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON
Rec No 4316722
7. The Adagietto from Mahler’s Symphony No.5 & the theme to Death in Venice
Performer Orchestra of the Academy of Sainte Cécile
Composer Mahler
CD Title Death in Venice: original film soundtrack
Track 1
Label SONY
Rec No SK 70097
8. Nessun Dorma
Performer Luciano Pavarotti
Composer Puccini
CD Title Essential Opera
Track 13
Label DECCA
Rec No 4338222
Record: I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That) Meat Loaf
Book: A decently translated book of the Karan
Luxury: 200 cases of vintage wine
Kirsty Young's castaway next week is James Nesbitt |
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