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Actor Zawe Ashton

Jo is joined by actor and director Zawe Ashton to discuss her book Character Breakdown.

Jo is joined by actor and director Zawe Ashton to discuss her book Character Breakdown.

Zawe Ashton has been acting since she was six. She has played many different roles, from ‘cute little girl’ to ‘assassin with attitude', Oscar Wilde’s Salome to St Trinian’s schoolgirl by way of Fresh Meat’s Vod.

In Character Breakdown, Zawe scrolls through a version of her life. Or is it a version of her art? Or something in between. In it, she encounters glamour, horror, absurdity and questions like: is a life spent more on performance than reality any life at all?

And whether you’re picking up or dropping off, Jo provides the soundtrack for the Taxi Service.

1 hour, 57 minutes

Last on

Mon 17 Feb 2020 19:00
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Primal Scream

    Loaded

    • Live Forever (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • Aloe Blacc

    I Do

  • Lizzo

    Good As Hell

    • Coconut Oil.
    • Nice Life.
    • 5.

  • Waiting for Smith

    So Much Love

    • So Much Love.
    • Four One Seven Records Ltd.
    • 1.

  • The Strokes

    At The Door

    • The New Abnormal.
    • Cult Records / Columbia.
    • 6.

  • Grace Petrie

    Black Tie (clean mix)

    • Queer As Folk.
    • 6.

  • Chaka Demus, Pliers & Jack Radics

    Twist & Shout

    • (CD Single).
    • Mango.

  • Bob Dylan

    The Times They Are A-Changin' 

    • The Best Of Bob Dylan.
    • Columbia.

  • Daniel Johnston

    True Love Will Find You In The End

    • Daniel Johnston.
    • Shimmy Disc.
    • 8.

  • Alanis Morissette

    Reasons I Drink

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.
    • 1.

  • Daft Punk, Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers

    Get Lucky

    • Random Access Memories.
    • Columbia.
    • 8.

  • Billie Eilish

    No Time To Die

    • (CD Single).
    • Darkroom/Interscope Records.

  • Gloria Gaynor

    I Will Survive

    • Disco Fever (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Arlo Parks

    Eugene

    • Transgressive.

  • David Gray

    Life On Mars (Radio 2 Session, 13 Feb 2020)

  • King Princess

    Ohio

    • Ohio.
    • Zelig Records.
    • 1.

  • Jeff Buckley

    Lilac Wine

    • Grace.
    • Columbia.
    • 4.

  • Beck

    Uneventful Days

    • Capitol Records/Virgin EMI.

  • Aztec Camera

    Walk Out to Winter

    • The Best Of Aztec Camera.
    • Warner E.S.P..

  • LYR

    Never Good With Horses

    • Call in the Crash Team.
    • Mercury KX.

  • My Bloody Valentine

    Soon (Andrew Weatherall Mix)

    • JBO: A Perspective 1988-1998 CD1.
    • 6.

Broadcast

  • Mon 17 Feb 2020 19:00
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2