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From Aggers & Johnston to Van Morrison. Impressionist Rory Bremner shares his castaway choices with Sue Lawley. From 2003.

Satirist and impressionist Rory Bremner is castaway by Sue Lawley.

Rory was born in Edinburgh in 1961. A self-confessed show-off, he started doing impersonations at primary school, sending up teachers, sports commentators and Moira Anderson! Entertaining his school friends inevitably developed into performing on stage and he worked as a stand up on the comedy circuit, and notably at the Edinburgh Festival.

The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ offered him his first TV series, Now Something Else. It ran on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½2 for seven years. In 1993 he moved to Channel 4, where his show Rory Bremner - Who Else? developed a more hard-edged, satirical and political bite. Rory was also a regular on Spitting Image and Mock the Week.

An opera lover with an academic side to him, Rory has translated three operatic works into English.

In more recent years, Rory has been on Strictly, Who Do You Think You Are? The Imitation Game - not forgetting I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue.

DISC ONE: The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards - Highland Cathedral
DISC TWO: Danny Kaye - Masters Of All Masters
DISC THREE: Brian Johnston & Jonathan Agnew - Test Match Special (9/8/1991)
DISC FOUR: Cologne Radio Orchestra, conducted by Jan Latham-Koenig - excerpt from Kurt Weill’s The Silver Lake The Finale
DISC FIVE: Julie London - I'm In The Mood For Love
DISC SIX: Frank Sinatra - I've Got You Under My Skin
DISC SEVEN: Van Morrison - Have I Told You Lately
DISC EIGHT: Kiri Te Kanawa - Georges Bizet’s Je dis que rien ne m'épouvante (from Carmen)

CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Van Morrison - Have I Told You Lately
BOOK CHOICE: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Edward Gibbon
LUXURY CHOICE: Radio

Producer: Miranda Birch

First broadcast on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 in April 2003.

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