Terry Gilliam

Kirsty Young's castaway is the animator and director Terry Gilliam.
He first planted his foot-print on our cultural landscape more than thirty years ago - back then, it was a huge, animated foot which squashed everything beneath it and became one of the defining images of Monty Python's Flying Circus.
In the years since, his film credits have included Brazil, Twelve Monkeys and The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus. Now aged 70, he's directing his first opera. He says: "I've always liked the extremes, the edges. I like to know where the cliff is, but you only find out by stepping off."

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Elvis Presley

Heartbreak Hotel

Composer: Carl Perkins

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Cliff Edwards

When You Wish Upon a Star

Composer: Ned Washington and Leigh Harline

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Tom Waits

Alice

Composer: Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan

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Parno Graszt

Odi Phenel Cino Savo / Azt Mondja A Kisfiam

Composer: Traditional

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The Beatles

Taxman

Composer: George Harrison

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Van Dyke Parks

Opportunity for Two

Composer: Van Dyke Parks and Martin Fyodr Kibbee

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Castaway's favourite

Richard Strauss

Ein Heldenleben – final movement

Artist: Daniel Majeske, Cleveland Orchestra & Vladimir Ashkenazy

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Sergey Vasilievich Rachmaninov

The Isle of the Dead

Artist: St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Mariss Jansons

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Book

Dictionary by

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Luxury item

A mirror

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