Denise Robertson
Kirsty Young interviews agony aunt, writer and presenter Denise Robertson.
Kirsty Young's castaway is the agony aunt and writer Denise Robertson.
She is, she says, one of life's survivors -- yet she seems to have had more than her fair share of tragedy; she's been widowed twice, dealt with financial hardship and lost a child to cancer. She's written dozens of novels and for more than forty years been an agony aunt on local radio, papers and television.
She says: "There have been times when I've thought, just as I get things right, fate steps in and kicks the steps from under me. But then you pick yourself up again. When I started out, there used to be a joke, that one day I'd open a letter without saying, 'Oh I remember when that happened to me'."
Producer: Leanne Buckle.
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Louis Armstrong
What A Wonderful World
Composer: Weiss/Douglas
- Louis Armstrong – the Great Entertainer.
- Music for Pleasure.
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Charles Trenet
La Mer
Composer: Charles Trenet
- Café Parisien.
- Not Now.
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The Duckworth Lewis Method
Jiggery Pokery
Composer: Edwin Sykes
- Duckworth Lewis Method.
- DCR.
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Sergey Prokofiev
Dance of the Knights
Artist: The Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Georg Solti
- Romeo and Juliet.
- Decca.
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Jim Bryant and Marni Nixon
One Hand One Heart
Composer: Leonard Bernstein & Stephen Sondheim
- West Side Story.
- CBS.
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Joseph Canteloube
Bailero
Artist: Victoria de Los Angeles with the Lamoureux Concert Orchestra conducted by Jean Pierre Jacquillat
- Canteloube: Chants D’Auvergne.
- EMI.
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The company of the original London Cast
One day More
Composer: composed by Jean Claude Schonberg and lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer
- Les Miserables.
- First Night.
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Francesco Sartori
Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman
Artist: Time to Say Goodbye
- The Best of Andrea Bocelli.
- Sugar.
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Book Choice
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A book on practical survival.
Luxury Choice
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An endless supply of pen and paper.
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Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Kirsty Young |
| Interviewed Guest | Denise Robertson |
Broadcasts
- Sun 27 May 2012 10:00BBC Radio 4 LW
- Sun 27 May 2012 11:15BBC Radio 4 FM
- Fri 1 Jun 2012 09:00BBC Radio 4
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