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This Week's Guest:
Michael Ball
2 March 2008
Repeated
7 March 2008 |
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Michael's Choice |
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Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the actor and singer Michael Ball.
For more than twenty years he's been the West End's leading man - winning stacks of awards, building a hugely successful recording career and attracting a large and loyal army of fans.
He was a teenage drop-out, but when a teacher encouraged him to go to drama school he suddenly realised what he wanted to do. Success seemed to come easily to him and he quickly took on leading roles in Les Miserables, Aspects of Love and Phantom of the Opera. But at one point he feared he would have to abandon his career; he was on stage performing in Les Miserables when he suffered his first panic attack. They became so severe that he could barely leave his flat and he hated the thought of anyone looking at him. He shut himself away for nearly a year as he tried to work out what was wrong with him and overcome his anxieties.
In Desert Island Discs he describes how he managed to return to the stage - and reveals the role his partner, Cathy McGowan, has played in rebuilding his confidence. |
1. The opening of the final movement of Saint-Saens’ Symphony No.3 in C Minor
Performer Los Angeles Philharmonic
Composer Saint Saëns
CD Title Saint Saëns Organ Symphony
Track 1
Label DECCA
Rec No 417 725-2
2. Trouble Of The World
Performer Mahalia Jackson
Composer Mahalia Jackson
CD Title Trouble of The World; Tell The World About This
Track 1
Label PHILIPS
Rec No PB933
3. September In The Rain
Performer Dinah Washington
Composer Dublin, Warren
CD Title The Best of Dinah Washington: Mad About The Boy
Track 6
Label MERCURY
Rec No 512 214-2
4. Carey
Performer Joni Mitchell
Composer Joni Mitchell
Publisher Reprise Records
CD Title Blue
Track 4
Label REPRISE
Rec No K244 128
5. Sailing By
Performer BBC Concert Orchestra
Composer Ronald Binge
CD Title The Essential British Light Music Collection
Track 8
Label CLASSIC FM PLC
Rec No 75605 57003 2
6.The Dance
Performer Garth Brooks
Composer Tony Arata
CD Title Shameless
Track 2
Label CAPITOL RECORDS INC
Rec No CDCL 646
7. The Overture to Gypsy from the original Broadway cast recording 1959
Performer Ethel Merman
CD Title Gypsy: Original Broadway Cast
Track 1
Label COLUMBIA
Rec No CK 32607
8. If Everyone Was Listening
Performer Supertramp
Composer Richard Davies & Roger Hodgson
Publisher Universal Music Company
CD Title Crime of the Century
Track 7
Label A & M RECORDS
Rec No 4933462
Record: Sailing By - BBC Concert Orchestra
Book: Neil Gaiman's The Sandman series
Luxury: Cloudy Bay Sauvignon Blanc |
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