Johnny Flynn
Michael Berkeley's guest is the actor and musician Johnny Flynn.
Johnny Flynn is a polymath β as comfortable as an actor on stage and screen as he is writing and performing songs. You have perhaps seen him as Mr Knightley in the film Emma or as Ian Fleming in Operation Mincemeat. In his latest film, One Life, he stars alongside Anthony Hopkins, as the young Nicholas Winton, who helped Jewish children flee from the Nazis in what became known as the Kindertransport.
Heβs currently starring as Richard Burton in the play The Motive and the Cue, the story of how Burton and Sir John Gielgud clashed as they staged Hamlet on Broadway in 1964.
Johnny has also released four albums with his band Johnny Flynn & The Sussex Wit. He composed the theme song for the acclaimed TV series Detectorists, and more recently heβs collaborated with the nature writer Robert MacFarlane on two folk albums: Lost in the Cedarwood and The Moon Also Rises.
His musical choices include Paul Robeson, Sondheim and Bizet.
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Music Played
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Gabriel FaurΓ©
Cantique de Jean Racine, Op.11 for chorus and organ, or harmon
Performer: Stephen Cleobury. Choir: Choir of St Johnβs College, Cambridge. Conductor: George Guest.- Faure: Requiem, Durufle: Requiem, Poulenc: Motets.
- DECCA.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Unaccompanied Cello Suite No.4 in E Flat Major, BWV 1010: Prelude
Performer: YoβYo Ma.- Six Evolutions.
- Sony Classical.
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Stephen Sondheim
Send in the Clowns (Reprise)
Singer: SiΓ’n Phillips.- A Little Night Music.
- Jay Records.
- 19.
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The Watersons
The Good Old Way
Ensemble: The Watersons.- Mighty River of Song.
- Topic Records.
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Trad.
Everytime I feel the Spirit
Performer: Alan Booth. Singer: Paul Robeson.- The Peace Arch Concerts.
- Folk Era Records.
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Michael Hurley
The Tea Song
- First Songs.
- Folkways Records.
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Georges Bizet
Au fond du temple saint (The Pearl Fishers)
Singer: Jussi BjΓΆrling. Singer: Robert Merrill. Orchestra: RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Renato Cellini.- The Pearl Fishers Duet and Other famous duets and scenes.
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Robert Johnson
Come On In My Kitchen
- King of the Delta Blues Singers.
- Columbia Records.
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