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Eight tracks, a book and a luxury: what would you take to a desert island? Guests share the soundtrack of their lives.

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Nick Park

Desert Island Discs: Nick Park

19/12/2010

BBC Radio 4 - Desert Island Discs, Nick Park

Oscar-winning filmmaker Nick Park joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs.

Kirsty Young's castaway is the Oscar-winning animator Nick Park.

His most famous creations are Wallace and Gromit: Gromit the silent but wise dog; Wallace, his well meaning owner with notably less brain-power. They now hold the same place in the nation's heart at Christmas that Morcambe and Wise once occupied. They are old-fashioned and quintessentially British - as familiar as bread and butter, or hoping the rain holds off - but their appeal is international. 

The world they inhabit is one of Jacobs cream crackers and tea-strainers - so it's little surprise that in real life too Nick Park's own creature comforts are modest: "The thing is, I have everything I want really. I've got my little house, I've got a campervan, I love the British countryside, I'm not after yachts or things like that."


Record: I Forgot that Love Existed - Van Morrison
Book: A Collins Bird book 
Luxury: My own 'Amazing pair of binoculars' 



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