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Pearl Bailey
What is a Friend For?
Composer: Harold Arlen
Robert Hardy
Broadcast
First broadcast: Sun 20 Nov 2011
Actor
Kirsty Young's castaway is the actor Robert Hardy.
He became a household name as the vet Siegfried Farnon in the hit TV series All Creatures Great and Small and, to a younger generation, he is the Minister of Magic in the Harry Potter films. But the role he is best known for is Winston Churchill - he won a Bafta for his performance in Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years. He believes actors are born rather than made and his own ambitions crystallised when, as a very young boy, he was a page boy at a wedding: "I walked down the aisle with my head held high and as I went, every eye was turned towards me and something inside me said, "That's it, get every eye on you".
Choices
2.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Beethoven’s 7th symphony in A Major - 2nd movement
Artist: BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Arturo Toscanini.
4.
Hector Berlioz
The Waltz from the Symphonie Fantastique
Artist: The Paris Orchestra conducted by Semyon Bychkov
5.
Francis Poulenc
Poulenc -Suite Francaise -Pavanne
Artist: The National Orchestra of France conducted by Charles Dutroit
6.
Jean Sibelius
Sibelius 6th Symphony in D Minor - The 4th movement Release: Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 6
Artist: City of Birmingham Orchestra conducted by Sir Simon Rattle
7.
Castaway's favourite
Ludwig van Beethoven
Beethoven - String Quartet in B flat- 2nd movement
Artist: The Medici String Quartet
8.
John Hardy
De Profundis
Artist: The Westminster Abbey Choir, the BBC Singers & London Brass conducted by Martin Baker
Broadcast
First broadcast: Sat 22 Apr 1978
British actor
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Robert Hardy.
Choices
1.
Franz Schubert
Symphony No. 2 in B flat major
Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor: Karl Böhm
3.
Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev
Romeo and Juliet
Orchestra: Cleveland Orchestra Conductor: Lorin Maazel
4.
Joseph Canteloube
Obal, din lou limouzi (from Songs of the Auvergne)
Soloist: Victoria De Los Angeles
5.
Johannes Brahms
Concerto for Violin & Cello in A minor
Soloist: David Oistrakh, Mstislav Rostropovich Orchestra: Cleveland Orchestra Conductor: George Szell
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Castaway's favourite
Jean Sibelius
Symphony No. 7 in C Major
Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor: Thomas Beecham
8.
Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet No. 13 in B flat major, Op. 130
Orchestra: Amadeus String Quartet
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