Howard Jacobson
Writer and Booker Prize winner Howard Jacobson joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs.
Kirsty Young's castaway is the writer Howard Jacobson.
After many years of swiping at literary prizes, last October he walked off with the biggest one going, the Man Booker. His book, The Finkler Question, was a study of what it meant to be Jewish in England. It's a subject that has been very near to Howard Jacobson's heart. He says: "My sense of myself has always meant being on the outside. On the outside as a Jew, looking into gentile England, but also on the outside of Jewishness too. I have always felt myself to be on the outside of everything."
Record: You're a Sweetheart
Book: The Oxford Book of English Verse
Luxury: A never ending supply of pressed shirts and trousers
Producer: Leanne Buckle.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Bach's Cantata No.82 鈥� Schlummert ein ihr matten Augen 鈥� Close in sleep, O weary eyelids
Artist: Dame Janet Baker with the Bath Festival Orchestra conducted by Yehudi Menuhin
- Bach: Handel: Solo Cantatas鈥aker..
- EMI classics.
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Salvatore Cardillo & Ricardo Cordiferro
Core 'ngrato-Ungrateful Heart
Artist: Mario Lanza
- Mario Lanza: For the First Time, that Midnight Kiss.
- RCA.
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The Whirlwinds
Look at Me
Composer: Petty/Holly/Allison
- Beat at Abbey Road.
- EMI.
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Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
Stars Fell on Alabama
Composer: Frank Perkins & Mitchell Parish
- Ella and Louis.
- Verve.
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Yossele Rosenblatt
Misratze B'Rachamim
Composer:
- Jewish Liturgy: Seven Great Cantors.
- Buda.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
L脿 ci darem la mano (from Don Giovanni)
Artist: Graziella Sciutti & Eberhard Wachter with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini
- Don Giovanni.
- EMI Classics.
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Franz Schubert
Piano Trio No. 1 in B flat major
Artist: Alfred Cortot, Jacques Thibaud & Pablo Casals
- Beethoven/Schubert:Trios Cortot/Thibaud/Casals.
- EMI.
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Al Bowlly with Lew Stone and His Band
You're a Sweetheart
Composer: Harold Adamson & Jimmy McHugh
- Lew Stone & His Band.
- Decca.
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Book Choice
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The Oxford Book of English Verse - Christopher Ricks
Luxury Choice
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Never ending supply of pressed shirts and trousers
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Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Kirsty Young |
| Interviewed Guest | Howard Jacobson |
Broadcasts
- Sun 6 Feb 2011 11:1591热爆 Radio 4 FM
- Sun 6 Feb 2011 11:3091热爆 Radio 4 LW
- Fri 11 Feb 2011 09:0091热爆 Radio 4
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