Anna Scher
From Bob Marley to Buddy Holly. Theatre school founder Anna Scher shares her castaway choices with Kirsty Young. From 2011.
Kirsty Young's castaway is the drama teacher Anna Scher.
It's more than forty years since she set up her theatre school and it has launched the careers of Kathy Burke, Martin Kemp, Pauline Quirke and Patsy Palmer to name just a few. It started out as a lunchtime drama club - and very quickly grew. Anna Scher says: "There were enormous classes - about seventy in a class - and a lot of those pupils were non-readers and so I fell into improvisation by chance. I found that it was a very effective way of character training."
Producer: Leanne Buckle
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Music Played
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Van Morrison
Brown Eyed Girl
Composer: Van Morrison
- Still on Top – Greatest Hits.
- Exile.
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Topol
Sunrise, Sunset
Composer: Jerry Bock/ Sheldon Harnick
- Fiddler on the Roof.
- EMI.
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Castaway's Favourite
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Bob Marley & The Wailers
One Love / People Get Ready
Composer: Bob Marley
- Legend.
- TUFF GONG.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have a dream
Composer: Martin Luther King
- Washington Freedom March - 1963.
- Â鶹Éç ARCHIVE..
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Buddy Holly
Raining in My Heart
Composer: B & F Bryant
- Buddy Holly & the Crickets: 20 Golden Greats..
- MCA DMCTV1.
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Karl Daymond, accompanied by Alan Mills
Danny Boy
Composer: Trad.
- Live Performance.
- RTE.
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T P McKenna
When You Are Old
Composer: Wb Yeats
- Poets For Pleasure: W.B. Yeats.
- Hodder headline.
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Red Dragon
Compliments on Your Kiss
Composer: L.May/G.Harris/S.Dunbar
- The Ultimate Reggae Party Album.
- Sanctuary Records.
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Book Choice
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A Poem for the Day - Nicholas Albery
Luxury Choice
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A bespoke statue of Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Presenter | Kirsty Young |
Interviewed Guest | Anna Scher |
Broadcasts
- Fri 18 Nov 2011 09:00Â鶹Éç Radio 4
- Sun 15 Sep 2019 10:15Â鶹Éç Radio 4 Extra
- Sun 15 Sep 2019 21:15Â鶹Éç Radio 4 Extra
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