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Radio 4,21 Jun 2009,45 mins

Martin Shaw

Desert Island Discs

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Kirsty Young's castaway is the actor Martin Shaw. He has been one of Britain's most popular stage and television actors of the past 40 years and has taken on more than 100 different roles. Yet Martin has spent half a lifetime moving out of the shadow of one of his earliest parts: Ray Doyle in The Professionals. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Surely He Hath Borne Our Griefs by George Frideric Handel Book: Post Captain in the Aubrey/Maturin series by Patrick O'Brien Luxury: A synthesiser to make up my own music.

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  1. Track
    Artist
  2. 1.
    Concerto for Two Violins in D minor - 2nd movement
    Concerto for Two Violins in D minor - 2nd movement
    Johann Sebastian Bach
  3. 2.
    J'attendrai
    J'attendrai
    Tino Rossi
  4. 3.
    Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor - 3rd movement
    Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor - 3rd movement
    Sergey Rachmaninov