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This Week's Guest:
Haleh Afshar
28 December 2008
Repeated
2 January 2009 |
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Haleh's Choice |
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Kirsty Young's castaway this week is Baroness Haleh Afshar.
An expert in Middle Eastern Affairs she’s a professor of politics and women's studies and Islamic law as well as being a cross bench peer.
She grew up in Iran and France living a life of huge privilege but, inspired by reading Jane Eyre, she decided she needed to learn to stand on her own two feet. She came to Britain as a boarding school pupil when she was fourteen and has made her home here.
She has been an outspoken critic of the Iranian regime and, coming from a long line of independent-minded women, that's little surprise. Her mother campaigned for women to have the vote while her grandmother refused to wear the veil… though in her grandmother's case, that was because she thought she was too pretty to be covered up. |
1. Barun Baruneh/ The Rain
Performer Shusha Guppy
Composer A Guilaki song from Guilan
CD Title Persian Love Songs and Mystic Chants
Track 3
Label Lyrichord Discs
Rec No LYRCD 7235
2. J’attendrai – I will wait
Performer Josephine Baker
Composer Rastelli/Poterat/Olivieri
CD Title Josephine Baker: My Greatest Songs
Track 8
Label RCA
Rec No 74321107322
3. Mara Beboos – original old recording
Performer Hassan Golnaraghi
Composer Reghabi
CD Title NOT COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE
4. Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien
Performer Edith Piaf
Composer Charles Dumont – Michel Vaucaire
CD Title Edith Piaf: 25th anniversary, Vol 2
Track 10
Label COLUMBIA
Rec No 7905622
5. Yellow Submarine
Performer The Beatles
Composer Lennon/McCartney
CD Title Yellow Submarine
Track 1
Label PARLOPHONE
Rec No CDP76464452
6. The Queen of the Night from the Magic Flute
Performer Lucia Popp with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Otto Klemperer
Composer Mozart
CD Title Soprano Arias
Track 16
Label HMV CLASSICS
Rec No 569044 2
7. Prelude to Bach’s Cello Suite No.1
Performer Jacqueline Du Pré
Composer Bach
CD Title Bach: Britten: Falla:Du Pré
Track 1
Label EMI
Rec No CDM7631652
8. Wind Beneath My Wings
Performer Bette Midler
Composer Larry Henley and Jeff Silbar
CD Title Beaches
Track 2
Label ATLANTIC
Rec No 7819332
Record: Bach’s Cello Suite No 1
The Koran instead of the Bible
Book The poems of the Iranian poet Hafiz
Luxury: A rose bush.
Kirsty Young's castaway next week is Simon Murray
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