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From Patsy Cline to Dinah Washington. Comedian Jackie Mason shares his castaway choices with Kirsty Young. From 2012.

From Patsy Cline to Dinah Washington.

Comedian Jackie Mason shares his castaway choices with Kirsty Young.

Jackie's one-man shows pulled in audiences for over 50 years.

Like his father, grandfather and great-grandfather before him, he trained initially as a rabbi - and quickly acquired a reputation for being very funny.

"The people who heard my sermons kept saying to me; 'Rabbi, why aren't you a comedian?' I said to myself, maybe I should take the hint."

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2012.

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