Anna Ford

Kirsty Young's castaway is the broadcaster Anna Ford.

One of the first high profile women in news, she worked for Granada, ITV and the BBC before retiring after more than thirty years on our screens. One of her professional pairings was presenting the News at 10 with Reginald Bosanquet, she remembers how he would try to unsettle her during broadcasts: "I adored Reggie, he would land either obscene poems or love poems on my script just before I was to about to read it to camera and I would catch just a sight of this and it was almost impossible not to laugh."

Choices

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Duke Ellington & His Orchestra

It Don’t Mean a Thing if it Ain’t got that Swing

Composer: Duke Ellington & Irving Mills

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Johann Sebastian Bach

Bach Concerto for Two Violins and Strings in D Minor

Artist: Yeudi Menuhin and David Oistrakh conducted with the Great Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alexander Orlov.

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Dawn Chorus

Seasonal birdsong (sound effects) recorded in May in Kent

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Bob Dylan

Masters of War

Composer: Bob Dylan

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Isaac Albéniz

Mallorca

Artist: Julian Bream

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James Taylor

Carolina in My Mind

Composer: Taylor

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7.

Castaway's favourite

Paul Simon

You can call me Al

Composer: Paul Simon

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Tino Rossi

J’Attendrai

Composer: Oliver/Poterat

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Book

Staying Alive: real poems for unreal times by

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Religious text

None Taken

Luxury item

Endless supply of leaf tea, teapot, mug and semi skimmed milk.

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