DESERT ISLAND DISCS REVISITED: DOCTOR WHO AT 60 - RUSSELL T DAVIES (320kbs-m4a/98mb/42mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 19th November 2023
Screenwriter Russell T Davies shares his castaway choices with Lauren Laverne.
Russell is one of the UK's most successful TV writers. He spent his teenage years learning his dramatic craft with the West Glamorgan Youth Theatre, and his career in TV began in the children's department at the BBC.
His first solo hit TV series was the ground-breaking, sexually frank drama Queer as Folk, first broadcast on Channel 4 in 1999.
A lifelong Doctor Who fan, he relaunched the series in 2005 for a new generation of viewers. Such was its success, he found himself working around the clock.
More recently, he wrote the highly-acclaimed series A Very English Scandal, starring Hugh Grant as Jeremy Thorpe, and the dystopian drama Years and Years.
BOOK CHOICE: Asterix and the Roman Agent by by René Goscinny with illustrations by Albert Uderzo
LUXURY ITEM: A black Ball Pentol Pen
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Leonard Bernstein's Gloria in excelsis
Presenter: Lauren Laverne
Producer: Sarah Taylor
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2019.
Julie Covington, Charlotte Cornwell, Rula Lenska - Sugar Mountain
Jascha Heifetz & Emanuel Bay - Hora Staccato (1950 Version)
The New Christy Minstrels - Three Wheels On My Wagon
The Norman Scribner Choir - Leonard Bernstein's Gloria In Excelsis
Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights
The OT Quartet - Hold That Sucker Down (Builds Like A Skyscraper Mix)
Neil Hannon - Song For Ten
Electric Light Orchestra - Mr. Blue Sky
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