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From Louis Armstrong to The Smiths. Comedian and actor Steve Coogan shares his castaway choices with Kirsty Young. From 2009.

Kirsty Young's castaway is the comedian and actor Steve Coogan.

As a child he found he had a knack for impressions, a talent which led him to work on ITV's Spitting Image.

Recently Steve has also found success in films, but is best known for the comic monster he created - Alan Partridge.

The chat show host in Pringle jumper and slacks made us cringe with his crass questions and witless interventions and has remained one of our most enduring comic anti-heroes.

DISC ONE: Hong Kong Garden - Siouxsie and the Banshees
DISC TWO: We Have All the Time in the World - Louis Armstrong
DISC THREE: Wickerman - The Mock Turtles
DISC FOUR: (Nothing But) Flowers - Talking Heads
DISC FIVE: Hallelujah - Happy Mondays
DISC SIX: Edward Elgar’s Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36: Variation IX "Nimrod" - soloist: Julian Lloyd Webber; orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; conductor: Sir Yehudi Menuhin
DISC SEVEN: California - Joni Mitchell
DISC EIGHT: Panic - The Smiths

BOOK CHOICE: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy - Laurence Sterne
LUXURY CHOICE: Fully-restored Morris Minor Traveller with wooden detail
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: We Have All the Time in the World - Louis Armstrong

Producer: Leanne Buckle

First broadcast on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 in October 2009.

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