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From Joe Cocker to Eric Thompson. Actress and writer Emma Thompson shares her castaway choices with Kirsty Young. From March 2010.

Kirsty Young's castaway is Emma Thompson.

Sense and Sensibility, The Remains of the Day, Much Ado About Nothing and Howards End are just a handful of her notable screen credits in a dazzling career that has seen her pick up Oscars for both acting and writing.

She appears to have pulled off that rare trick of being both a star and one of us - she famously keeps her brace of Oscars in the downstairs loo, still lives across the road from her mum and holidays in a cottage in Scotland where, she says, she and her husband spend a third of the year 'digging in like a pair of old potatoes.'

DISC ONE: Corarsik - Orchestra: The Hungarian Studio Orchestra, conductor: Patrick Doyle
DISC TWO: Florence, It's a Lovely Morning from the film version of The Magic Roundabout: Dougal and the Blue Cat - Eric Thompson
DISC THREE: Benjamin Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols - Choir: The Choir of King’s College Cambridge, conductor: Sir David Willcocks
DISC FOUR: Inti‐Illimani’s Candidos - John Williams, Paco Pena
DISC FIVE: Hold On - Tom Waits
DISC SIX: Cantaloop - Us3 & Rahsaan
DISC SEVEN: Some of Your Planes - Richard Lumsden
DISC EIGHT: With a Little Help From My Friends - Joe Cocker

BOOK CHOICE: Odyssey - ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔr
LUXURY CHOICE: A saucepan - heavy bottomed with a removable handle
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Corarsik - Orchestra: The Hungarian Studio Orchestra, conductor: Patrick Doyle.

First broadcast on ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 in March 2010.

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