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4 Extra's extended edition with writer and actor Mark Gatiss in conversation with Kirsty Young. From 2011.

Writer and author Mark Gatiss reveals his castaway choices with Kirsty Young.

In a specially extended edition for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra, Mark shares his life story and explains his musical, book and luxury choices.

Mark tells Kirsty how his childhood passions have fuelled his adult creative life. As a boy he says he was drawn towards the macabre and gothic - while his teachers remarked that his school essays resembled scripts for Hammer horror films.

He has written for - and has acted in - Doctor Who; he was one of the creators of The League of Gentlemen and his Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ TV re-imagining of Sherlock Holmes has been a huge success.

DISC ONE: There is a Light that Never Goes Out - The Smiths
DISC TWO: Theme to On Her Majesty’s Secret Service - John Barry
DISC THREE: If I Loved You (from the soundtrack to Carousel) - Shirley Jones and Gordon MacRae
DISC FOUR: Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis - The Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Herbert Von Karajan
DISC FIVE: Beautiful Child - Rufus Wainwright
DISC SIX: Come to Me (I Am Woman) - Su Pollard
DISC SEVEN: Yes - McAlmont & Butler
DISC EIGHT: So In Love (from the Broadway cast recording of Kiss Me, Kate) - Marin Mazzie

BOOK CHOICE: Complete Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
LUXURY CHOICE: A Victorian bath and hot water
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: So In Love (from the Broadway cast recording of Kiss Me, Kate) - Marin Mazzie

Producer: Leanne Buckle

First broadcast on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 in October 2011.

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