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This Week's Guest:
Vince Cable
18 January 2009
Repeated
23 January 2009 |
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Vince's Choice |
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Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the Liberal Democrat Treasury Spokesman, Vince Cable.
He studied economics at Cambridge and had a rich career before entering parliament in 1997. Now, he's become something of a media darling; seen by many as one of the few people able to understand - and make credible suggestions about - the current financial crisis.
In this personal interview, however, politics is largely set aside and instead Vince describes the home-life that shaped him as he grew up and the rich family life he has enjoyed as an adult. His fiercely ambitious father was an activist for the local Conservative party: he was talented, driven and passionate, but also overbearing and unwilling to hear voices of dissent. Vince dismayed his father by dropping his science degree in favour of economics and later outraged him by marrying his first wife, Olympia, who was from Kenya. Despite his father's view that mixed-race marriages 'didn't work', they were married for more than thirty years and raised their three children together before Olympia's death from cancer. After her death, he says, he envisaged a lonely old-age lay ahead - but an unpromising debate about free trade and agriculture brought him together with his second wife. Now he says he wears both his wedding rings together as a tribute to the two happy marriages he has enjoyed, he continues to go dancing every week with his second wife Rachel, as he did with Olympia and he is, he cheerfully confesses, a romantic. |
1. And the Glory from Handel’s Messiah
Performer York Celebrations Choir led by John Warburton
Composer Handel
CD Title A Choral Festival: York Celebrations Choir
Track Side 1trk 1
Label Decca eclipse
Rec No ECS 2133
2. Am Abend from St Matthew Passion
Performer Paul Vincent with the Prague Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by James Sedares
Composer Bach
CD Title Agnesa and Paul – Give Me Your Hand
Track 9
information from info@100hours.org
3. Stranger on the Shore
Performer Acker Bilk
Composer B Bilk, R Mellin
CD Title Heartbeat: various artists
Track 15
Label COLUMBIA
Rec No 471900 2
4. Part of the final movement from the Piano Concerto No 23 in F Minor, the Appassionata
Performer Claudio Arrau
Composer Beethoven
CD Title Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos, 8, 23 & 14
Track 6
Label PHILIPS
Rec No 4229702
5. Song to the Moon from Dvorák's Rusalka
Performer Agnesa Tothova with the Prague Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by James Sedares
Composer Dvorák
CD Title Agnesa and Paul – Give Me Your Hand
Track 8
information from info@100hours.org
6. 1st movement of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No 1 in C Major
Performer Murray Perahia with the Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam conducted by Bernard Haitink
Composer Beethoven
CD Title Beethoven: 5 Piano Concertos
Track Cd1 trk1
Label SONY CLASSICAL
Rec No S3K44575
7. Love Letters in the Sand
Performer Pat Boone
Composer N & C Kenny-J Coots
CD Title Pat Boone: Love Letters in the Sand
Track 1
Label THE ENTERTAINERS
Rec No CD0238
8. La Ci Darem La Mano from Mozart’s Don Giovanni
Performer Paul Vincent and Agnesa Tothova with the Prague Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by James Sedares
Composer Mozart
CD Title Agnesa and Paul – Give Me Your Hand
Track 1
information from info@100hours.org
Record: La Ci Darem La Mano -Don Giovanni
Book: A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking
Luxury: An Aston Martin car
Kirsty Young's castaway next week is Alan Sillitoe
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