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Desert Island Discs Revisited

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Selected castaway gems from the BBC Desert Island Discs archive.

Desert Island Discs Revisited: BAFTA Winners: Colin Firth

Colin Firth

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BBC Radio 4 Extra - Desert Island Discs Revisited, BAFTA Winners, Colin Firth

From Curtis Mayfield to Mahler. Actor Colin Firth is castaway by Sue Lawley.

From Curtis Mayfield to Gustav Mahler. Actor Colin Firth shares his castaway choices with Sue Lawley. From 2012.

Kirsty Young introduces an archive episode revisiting the castaway choices of a BAFTA and Academy Award winning actor.

Colin Firth is castaway by Sue Lawley.

He created an iconic moment in British TV history when, as Jane Austen's hero Mr Darcy, he emerged wet-shirted from his stately lake. 

To his surprise, he became a sex symbol, was dubbed the 'male Ursula Andress' and was voted Britain's Most Popular Actor in a BBC poll. He went on to send up the role on the big screen - as the ironically-named Mark Darcy, the brooding boyfriend of Bridget Jones.

He always knew he wanted to act - from the moment when, as a five year old boy, he took on the role of Jack Frost at a school panto. He studied at the Drama Centre in London's Chalk Farm - where one of his teachers, Christopher Fettes, said he was by nature a poet and compared his acting to that of Paul Schofield. 

Married to an Italian woman and with two young sons, he now divides his time between life in London and in Italy.

DISC ONE: We People Who Are Darker Than Blue - Curtis Mayfield 
DISC TWO: Odoo - Fela Kuti  
DISC THREE: Heart Attack and Vine - Tom Waits 
DISC FOUR: Opening of the Kyrie from Mozart's Mass in C Minor – The Monteverdi Choir with English Baroque Soloists, conducted by John Eliot Gardiner 
DISC FIVE: Lost Cause - Beck 
DISC SIX: The Stealer - Free 
DISC SEVEN: Willin' - Little Feat  
DISC EIGHT: Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 in D minor, 4th movement - Maureen Forrester (soloist) with The Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Zubin Mehta

BOOK CHOICE: Stories of Woody Allen   
LUXURY CHOICE: My guitar   
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Opening of the Kyrie from Mozart's Mass in C Minor – The Monteverdi Choir with English Baroque Soloists, conducted by John Eliot Gardiner

Desert Island Discs was created by Roy Plomley. 

Producer: Isabel Sargent

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2005.

Desert Island Discs Revisited: BAFTA Winners

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A collection of BAFTA-winning actors castaways sharing their desert island choices.

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