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Jeremy Bowen, journalist

Jeremy Bowen, journalist, shares the eight tracks, book and luxury item he would take with him if cast away to a desert island. With Lauren Laverne.

Jeremy Bowen is the Â鶹ԼÅÄ’s award-winning international editor. He has been reporting from the world’s conflict zones, including Iraq, Bosnia, the Middle East and Ukraine, for more than 30 years.

Jeremy was born in Cardiff in 1960. His father was a journalist for Â鶹ԼÅÄ Wales, who covered the Aberfan disaster in 1966, and his mother was a press photographer. In 1984, after university, Jeremy joined the Â鶹ԼÅÄ as a news trainee and in 1989 he starting reporting from Afghanistan and El Salvador.

From 1995 to 2000 he was based in Jerusalem as the Â鶹ԼÅÄ’s Middle East correspondent. During that time he reported on the assassination of the Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin. His coverage of the event won him the Royal Television Society’s Award for Best Breaking News report.

In 2022 Jeremy started reporting on the ground in Ukraine and earlier this year he returned to Iraq to discover how the country was coping, 20 years after the US-led invasion in March 2003.

Jeremy lives in London with his partner Julia.

DISC ONE: Let’s Stay Together - Al Green
DISC TWO: Symphony No. 2 in E-Flat Major, Op. 63: II. Larghetto. Composed by Edward Elgar and performed by Hallé Orchestra, conducted by Sir John Barbirolli
DISC THREE: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op 18. Composed by Sergei Rachmaninoff and performed by Vladimir Ashkenazi (piano) with the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by André Previn
DISC FOUR: America - Simon & Garfunkel
DISC FIVE: La bohème: O soave fanciulla. Composed by Giacomo Puccini and performed by Plácido Domingo, Montserrat Caballé, London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Georg Solti
DISC SIX: Denn alles Fleisch, es ist wie Gras. Composed by Johannes Brahms and performed by Berliner Philharmoniker, conducted by Herbert von Karajan
DISC SEVEN: In My Life – The Beatles
DISC EIGHT: Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks

BOOK CHOICE: The Complete Novels of George Orwell
LUXURY ITEM: A manual typewriter
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Symphony No. 2 in E-Flat Major, Op. 63: II. Larghetto. Composed by Edward Elgar and performed by Hallé Orchestra and Wiener Singverein, conducted by Sir John Barbirolli

Presenter Lauren Laverne
Producer Paula McGinley

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Music Played

  • Al Green

    Let's Stay Together

    • Greatest Hits.
    • Fat Possum.
    • 6.

  • Edward Elgar

    Symphony No. 2 in E-Flat Major, Op. 63: Larghetto

    Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: John Barbirolli.
    • Sir John Barbirolli Symphonies, Vol. 4.
    • Editions Audiovisuel Beulah.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op 18

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy. Conductor: André Previn. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 1-4; Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 5.

  • Simon & Garfunkel

    America

    • Bookends.
    • Columbia.
    • 3.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    La bohème: O soave fanciulla

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Singer: Montserrat Caballé. Singer: Plácido Domingo. Conductor: Georg Solti.
    • The Best of Plácido Domingo.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 4.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Denn alles Fleisch, es ist wie Gras

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • Ein deutches Requiem.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 2.

  • The Beatles

    In My Life

    • The Beatles 1962 - 1966.
    • EMI Catalogue.
    • 9.

  • The Kinks

    Waterloo Sunset

    • The Best Of The Kinks 1966-67.
    • Sanctuary Records Ltd.
    • 1.

Broadcasts

  • Sun 4 Jun 2023 11:15
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4
  • Fri 9 Jun 2023 09:00
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4

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