Sandie Shaw

From Guy Mitchell to the Beatles.

Singer and psychotherapist, Sandie Shaw MBE shares her castaway choices with Kirsty Young.

With her melodic, velvety voice, bare feet and Sassoon bob, Sandie was the epitome of everything that was swinging about the 1960s.

She was just 17 when she first topped the charts with ‘Always Something There to Remind Me’ and went on to become Britain's first Eurovision winner with Puppet on a String. Sandie loathed the song at the time, but more recently came to terms with it after recording a new version which is, she says, rather forlorn.

Along with the highs have been terrible lows - years that she calls her dark ages, when, without money or creative freedom, she felt hopeless. It was Buddhism that turned her fortunes around and became central to her life.

Now, Sandie says, she can’t believe the journey life has taken her on and she is preparing for a final flourish as a performer.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2010.