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Programme Details This Week's Guest: Tariq Ali 16 March 2008 Repeated 21 March 2008
Tariq Ali Tariq's Choice Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the radical thinker, writer and broadcaster Tariq Ali. Forty years since the streets of London were filled with demonstrators, Tariq Ali describes how he came to be involved in anti-establishment politics and how, from an early age, he felt drawn towards those people who were the underdogs of society. He was born to privileged, atheist parents in Pakistan, he led his first street protest at 12 and his first strike at 15. He became increasingly political until, after a military coup, his parents were advised to send him out of the country for his own safety and so he came to study at Oxford. He travelled to Vietnam at the height of the war to observe and document the suffering there and also travelled to Bolivia and Palestine. His role as an anti-establishment agitator was cemented when he led two revolutionary marches in London in 1968. Forty years on - and after a successful career as a film-maker and writer - he says it remains important to voice dissenting views and he insists that despite his privilege and status he remains firmly outside the establishment. 1. The opening of Faure’s Requiem Performer The Choir of Kings College, Cambridge & the English Chamber Orchestra led by Stephen Cleobury Composer Faure CD Title Faure & Durufle: Requiems Track 10 Label EMI Rec No CDC7498802 2. Final movement of Shostakovich’s String Quartet Number 7 in F Sharp Minor Performer Borodin String Quartet Composer Shostakovich CD Title Shostakovich: String Quartets 3, 7 & 8 Track 8 Label VIRGIN CLASSICS Rec No VC7914372 3. Prometheus Performer Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau accompanied by Gerald Moore Composer Schubert CD Title Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau/Gerald Moore. Track 7 Label ORFEO Rec No C140101 4. Blues for Alice Performer Charlie Parker Composer Charlie Parker CD Title Bird: The original recordings of Charlie Parker Track 5 Label VERVE Rec No 8371762 5. Carlos and Elizabeth’s duet from Act 1 of Don Carlos Performer Luciano Pavarotti & Daniela Dessi with the Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala conducted by Riccardo Muti Composer Verdi CD Title Don Carlos Track 16 Label EMICDS Rec No 7548672 6. The Croppy Boy Performer Cornelius Cardew Composer Cornelius Cardew CD Title Cornelius Cordew: Piano Music Track 1 Label B &L Rec No BLCD011 7. Meda Ishq Vi Toon Performer Pathaney Khan CD Title Pathaney Khan The Flower of Rohi Track 1 Label RCU Rec No 552 8. Send the Marines Performer Tom Lehrer Composer Tom Lehrer CD Title Remains of Tom Lehrer Vol 3 Track 6 Label RHINO Rec No RHINOR2 79831 Record: Meda Ishq Vi Toon Book. The collected works of Proust Luxury: A mini DVD player Listen Live Audio Help PROGRAMME INFO Desert Island Discs is one of Radio 4's most popular and enduring programmes. Created by Roy Plomley in 1942, the format is simple: each week a guest is invited by Kirsty Young to choose the eight records they would take with them to a desert island. LISTEN AGAIN For rights reasons Desert Island Discs is not available as a listen again item. PREVIOUS PROGRAMMES Current Week Current Programmes Archived Programmes
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