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From Paul McCartney to Wham! Comedian Sarah Millican shares her castaway choices with Kirsty Young. From 2014.

From Paul McCartney to Wham!

Comedian Sarah Millican shares her castaway choices with Kirsty Young.

Her every woman yet no-holds-barred style of comedy has brought her sell-out tours and several of her own highly successful TV series. Revelling in normality and drawing on the difficult, intimate and ofter extruciating moments of being human, she dares to say what most of us are thinking, only she's much funnier.

A Geordie, born in South Shields, her dad was an engineer down the mines and her mum was a hairdresser. They encouraged their daughter in her storytelling and performing even though her childhood shyness meant she'd recite her poetry from behind the living room curtains.

Later it was pain that first propelled her onto the stage when a broken early marriage provided the catalyst she needed to find the courage to confront the glaring judgement of the audience's gaze. Her rise was then rapid. Within four years she was awarded the Best Newcomer prize at the Edinburgh Fringe.

She says, "People come along and think, 'oh she's being too rude'. They don't realise I'm just like this at home. People think I'm prim and proper at home but I'm not - I'm just me transplanted onto the stage".

DISC ONE: Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go - Wham!
DISC TWO: (There's No Place Like) Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ for the Holidays - Perry Como
DISC THREE: Happy - Pharrell Williams
DISC FOUR: Thunderbird - Hans Zimmer featuring Pete Haycock
DISC FIVE: Chocolate - Snow Patrol
DISC SIX: We All Stand Together - Paul McCartney
DISC SEVEN: The Theme from the film, Superman - London Symphony Orchestra & John Williams
DISC EIGHT: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔward Bound - Simon & Garfunkel

BOOK CHOICE - A survival book
LUXURY ITEM - Notebooks and pens
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE - The Theme from the film, Superman - London Symphony Orchestra & John Williams

First broadcast on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 December 2014.

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