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From Alison Moyet to James Taylor. Comedy star Dawn French shares her castaway choices with Kirsty Young. From December 2012.

From Alison Moyet to James Taylor. Comedy star Dawn French shares her castaway choices with Kirsty Young.

Dawn's career started back when dungarees were considered a legitimate fashion choice and she's built her reputation on borderline surreal skits and glowingly warm characterisations.

Brought up in a forces family, she had to move schools a lot and found making people laugh helped to make them her friends. Since then it's made her a household name and she may be moments away from becoming a 'national treasure'.

Double act partner, sit-com star, sketch show performer, writer, actor, Dawn has made us laugh for years. So does she ever feel overwhelmed by people's expectations?

She says "I tell myself that I'm the sort of person who can open a one-woman play in the West End, so I do .... I am the sort of person who writes a book - so I do".

First broadcast on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 in December 2012.

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